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Sounds cool, I'll give it a try.

I saw it briefly on a friend's computer. The sound effects are absurd (they can be turned off) the effects are well over the top (flipping menus that rotate when activated).

I didn't see much of the software nor emulators because my friend was using it in class but it felt very half assed yet over done in the effects department.

I'd reach for Debian before this in a heartbeat.

Hey that's me . Anyways, like Pixel_Outlaw was saying, EVERYTHING makes noise. And EVERYTHING has some overboard animation. Even clicking in a text field like the address bar summons a big twirly box. The operating system comes pre-stocked with...everything basically. The initial install disc comes with all sorts of multimedia stuff such as VLC and some other stuff I can't remember off the top of my head. I also installed the extras disc, a second nearly filled DVD, and honestly I'm not even completely sure what it added. I know it loaded a bunch of retro games ported (remade entirely?) to run in Linux. Oh and the color scheme is really hard to look at. As an added bonus chromium was pre-loaded and included its own color scheme which found its way to all of my computers when I logged into my google account. Yay cloud computing! My overall opinion of it, completely overboard in the graphics department. I appeared to actually have better battery life in windows 7 than I did in Commodore OS. Also all the pre loaded programs felt like a shotgun approach loading basically everything they could think of. I should also mention that I did not have any driver issues loading it onto my Alienware M11x R1 laptop with the integrated graphics card disabled in BIOS.

Wow that is a ton of information! Thank you so much I will definitely be looking into theses options. Thanks again!

Will try on Virtual Machine.
I don't like the idea they are using a torrent file, since it means that they can't pay for servers

They might be able to afford the servers. But if they use a torrent file they don't have to pay for the servers. It could just be an outlook of saving money that they do not have to spend. Then again, you could be right. Just trying to present another side. Either way I'll be taking a look at it later today.

Thanks everybody for the suggestions. Right now I am thinking of building an xe1541 that will be compatible with 64HDD to give that another try. It looks like my XA1541 cable will not work with 64hdd. If that doesn't work, maybe I'll start thinking about dropping the 60 bucks for an SD reader.

Thanks for the reply. I have seen the 1541UII. As much as I would love to have one, I don't want to shell out that much for one right now. Unless I missed something it costs around 130 eruos. I have seen some software called 64HDD. In the past I had trouble getting it to work. Maybe I will take another whack at it. It does not say it is compatible with the xa1541v2 cable but I believe the xa is a sort of crossover that is compatible with the more standard 1541 cables. Can anybody confirm that for me?

I'm new to DBF and I am looking for the cheapest way of loading programs such as demos onto my commodore 64. Currently I am using an xa1541 cable to load things to floppy disks with a 1541 drive via starcommander in DOS. In my opinion this method is really slow and often star commander locks up on me. Loading thing via floppy can also be annoying as my floppies are old and tend to fail randomly. Any input will be much appreciated and thanks in advance.

Hi everybody. I am a computer science student, going to the same school as pixel outlaw. I have a weak spot for old computers and hope to learn some interesting stuffs about the c64 from here.