Slack client for Commodore 64 (2016)

http://1amstudios.com/2016/11/27/c64-slack-client/

by PikelEmi • 8 years ago

63 21 8 years ago

zerr2• 8 years ago

Commodore 64 aside, I'd love to have a native (non-Electron) client for Windows at least.

chubs4• 8 years ago

I'm working on one for the mac, which isn't quite windows of course, if anyone cares? Looks like this so far: https://i.imgur.com/ATNdP6p.png

agentdax5• 8 years ago

I certainly care. Is this open source, how can I help?

andai• 8 years ago

I would like to compliment you on the lovely aesthetic.

swozey• 8 years ago

If you make this allow for an all black theme (INCLUDING the main chat window) I'll happily use it. I use a black theme (there's a few forks of https://github.com/widget-/slack-black-theme) but Slack breaks them beyond just dumping the code back into the css files constantly.

sanlyx• 8 years ago

Is anyone working on this? I don't even use Slack but could be interesting to reverse engineer the protocol and all and implement at least an API library or something for Windows

the-dude• 8 years ago

I would rather have that for my Acorn Electron.

htor• 8 years ago

can i ask why you would like a native one? is it too slow or something?

zerr2• 8 years ago

Yes, it is slow, memory hog and visually ugly (for me). I'd rather prefer a slick pure win32 app, including the visuals - real win32 buttons, lists, text edit controls, etc...

ziotom78• 8 years ago

This is the kind of HN post I love the most. Now, if only s somebody could port Julia to C64...

ryanmercer• 8 years ago

Get out of here with that Commodore 64 crap, Atari 8-bit line for life! :)

westmeal• 8 years ago

Love seeing people doing crazy things with old hardware. Awesome!

NSSec2• 8 years ago

Reminds me of my IRC days when I still had to share the family computer. Siblings would get computer time which obviously cut into my irc time, so i did the sane thing and wrote an irc gateway to run on the family computer that’d use the serial port for proxy clients. Then i connected the old 8088 (by serial port) we still had and built a barebones irc client with qbasic. All so i could be on irc while siblings were on the computer..

TomMarius• 8 years ago

Oh well, the good old times.

jwilk• 8 years ago

HN discussion from 2016:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13062661

jsd1982• 8 years ago

Seems to me the rs232 link could be much faster by bypassing the Kernal's bit-banged implementation and going direct to the hardware serial interface on the CIA. You'd have to rewire from the user port a bit.

geniium• 8 years ago

haha amazing what people do!

amelius• 8 years ago

The RPi they use for the connection is already many times more powerful than the C64.

Slack client for Commodore 64 (2016)

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