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Linux On A Commodore 64 (UPDATED)

Posted by Roy Schestowitz on Aug 27, 2023,

updated Aug 30, 2023

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We are used to seeing Linux running on almost everything, but we were a bit taken aback to see [semu-c64] running Linux on a Commodore 64. But between the checked-out user name and the caveat that: “it runs extremely slowly and it needs a RAM Expansion Unit”, one can already start piecing together what’s happening here.

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UPDATE

The Commodore Is Keeping Up with Linux, as a Clever RISC-V Hack Brings Support to the Commodore 64

=> ↺ The Commodore Is Keeping Up with Linux, as a Clever RISC-V Hack Brings Support to the Commodore 64

Developer Onno Kortmann has brought Linux to a device few would have imagined capable of running it: the eight-bit Commodore 64, released nearly a decade before Linus Torvalds' groundbreaking kernel.

"'But does it run Linux?' can now be finally and affirmatively answered for the Commodore C64," Kortmann writes of his work. "There is a catch (rather: a couple) of course: it runs extremely slowly and it needs a RAM Expansion Unit (REU), as there is no chance to fit it all into just 64KiB."

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