07-10-2019
I think the problem with this is: a computer is worthless without programs. Back then, when the C64 was a gaming staple (and lets be honest - this was what sold millions of them) there were programs in abundance and a lot of them were pirated. Today the programs (read: games) are not there any more and if they are they are mostly pirated versions.
Another thing is: it was usual to connect the C64 to the TV and use the TV as monitor. Back then, when 12" B&W monitors were common, this was awesome. I wonder if this is still possible with modern TV sets, because they usually don't rely on PAL/NTSC any more. Furthermore i suppose having a TV set as a monitor is not that awesome any more opposite the modern 4K-resolutions.
My suspicion is that there will be a short hype and then nothing - which is regrettable, because the 6502 family had some really interesting features which died with it, but that is true for a lot of features in a lot of old processors.
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setupcon
setupcon(1) User Manuals setupcon(1)
NAME
setupcon - sets up the font and the keyboard on Linux console
SYNOPSIS
setupcon [ option ]... [ variant ... ]
DESCRIPTION
setupcon is a program for fast and easy setup of the font and the keyboard on the Linux console.
OPTIONS
-k, --keyboard-only
Setup the keyboard only, do not setup the font.
-f, --font-only
Setup the font only, do not setup the keyboard.
--force
Do not check whether we are on the console. Notice that you can be forced to hard-reboot your computer if you run setupcon with
this option and you are on a X server.
-v, --verbose
Be more verbose. Use this option if something goes wrong.
--save If you want to use setupcon early in the boot process, it is possible that /usr is not yet mounted and the required data are not
available. This option makes setupcon copy the required data in /etc/console-setup in order to make it available before /usr is
mounted. If you use setupcon early in the boot process, then use this option whenever you change the console configuration.
--save-only
Same like --save, but do not setup the keyboard and the font. This option can be useful if you run setupcon in a X server.
-h, --help
Display usage information.
variant
Specifies which configuration file to use. By default the configuration file of setupcon is /etc/default/console-setup but if you
use e.g. "chukchi" as variant then the configuration file will be /etc/default/console-setup.chukchi. This allows you to have sev-
eral different configurations - for example one for the Chukchi language and another in /etc/default/console-setup for your default
configuration.
BASIC USAGE
Most of the time you invoke setupcon without arguments. Please look at the README file for more information.
AUTHOR
Anton Zinoviev <anton@lml.bas.bg>, <zinoviev@debian.org>
console-setup APR 2007 setupcon(1)