Contiki Desktop OS 1.0 Released

The first version of the Contiki operating system and desktop environment for the Commodore 64 has just been released. Ports for the 8-bit Nintendo Entertainment System, Atari Jaguar, 8-bit Atari, Apple ][, NEC PCEngine, and the VIC-20 are under development.Despite its small size, Contiki includes the following list of
features: multi-tasking
kernel
, windowing
system and themeable GUI toolkit
, screen
saver
, TCP/IP
stack
, personal
web server
, simple
telnet client
, and a web
browser
. The web browser, which is likely to be the world’s
smallest web browser given its extremely small memory footprint,
is the first real web browser ever for an 8-bit platform, and
makes the Commodore 64 the oldest computer ever to browse the web!
Contiki is written in C and the source code is
avaliable
under a BSD-style license. The name “Contiki” comes
from Thor
Heyerdahl’s
Kon-Tiki
raft which was built using prehistoric techniques, but with which
Heyerdahl was able to sail across the Pacific Ocean, something
previously thought impossible. Contiki screenshots
and a FAQ
are also available.

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