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Opera Gives That C64 Feel

Posted by ryuzaki0 on from the blast-from-the-past dept.

howcome writes "Opera yesterday relased beta2 of the forthcoming 7.0 version. Opera now supports mulitple user style sheets and by selecting "Nostalgia" from the menu all web pages suddenly resemble Commodore 64 (screendump1 screendump2) from 20 years back. Also, there is a handheld emulator to see what a page will look like on a handheld device running Opera. To get you through Christmas, you can also use the "fast-forward" button. Try it on Google (screendump)!"

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  1. But what about the vic 20? by everyplace · · Score: 5, Funny

    I have fond memories of dialing up with the 300 baud modem hooked up to the old vic 20. When will I be able to relive that experience?

    1. Re:But what about the vic 20? by BitHive · · Score: 5, Funny

      Well, I'm already reliving the speed of that experience...

    2. Re:But what about the vic 20? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Funny
      I'm living that right now. Opera.com seems to be nearly slashdotted.

      Slashdot: Forcing Websites To Emulate The 300-baud Experience.

    3. Re:But what about the vic 20? by puppet10 · · Score: 2, Funny

      Just go to a /.'ed site with the nostalgia browser to get the full effect.

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    4. Re:But what about the vic 20? by everyplace · · Score: 5, Funny

      Nostalga Browser. That's a good one. Can we look forward to a new version that only supports a proprietary type of Nostalgia? And then I can use an alternative nostalgia browser to suppress unwanted memories from inadvertently popping up in my head when I remember something specific.

      I'm really looking forward to when my fond memories have to be signed with a digital certificate in order for me to remember them. You know, to remove the possibility that I might remember something incorrectly.

    5. Re:But what about the vic 20? by Moses+Lawn · · Score: 5, Funny

      Just support the Open Nostalgia Project. All memories in Ogg Vorbis format, live and streaming. gnostalgia is in early beta, and I hear KMemories is koming ksoon.

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  2. Finally!!! by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1, Funny

    I have been begging all the browser developers for the C64 look and feel. Now Opera has it!!! I can't fskin' believe it! My Browsing Experience is going to increase a million fold because of this. Way to go Opera! No cure for cancer yet, but I can browse like its 1982 all over again! W00T!

    1. Re:Finally!!! by Proc6 · · Score: 5, Funny

      Use IE and Passport and you can browse like it's 1984.

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  3. Theme for Phoenix by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 2, Funny

    So when can I expect a C64 theme for Phoenix?

  4. opera's dying by jonathanbearak · · Score: 5, Funny

    they've already lost 24 bits

  5. Cartridge Linux? by binaryDigit · · Score: 4, Funny

    Does this mean that someone is working on a cart based Linux distro? Can't wait to do tar backups on my cassette!

  6. IN SOVIET RUSSIA... by Russian+Coward · · Score: 0, Funny

    the C64 feels YOU in the opera!

  7. Opera's new marketing campaign by AussieBastard · · Score: 5, Funny

    "Try Opera, and stay awhile... staayyy FOREVER!"

  8. Ah yes, retro style... by Dark+Lord+Seth · · Score: 3, Funny

    It's amusing to see retro styles like this coming to our modern computers. All those fancy blinking lights and millions of colours and yet people still enjoy and actively use styles that are supposed to represent 16 bit or 8 bit GUIs or CLIs.

    Maybe it's more evident for me to see these trends because I wish I was back in the days Amiga began, though at this age, with more programming knowledge and a wad of german Marks to buy Amiga from commodore. Then I'd hire this aspiring student from Helsinki Uni called Linux Torvalds, lock him into a room with an Amiga 500, some computer running Minix next to another one running some BSD unix, a bunch of programming tools and with an infinite supply of an odd mixture of Guiness/Red Bull. After a few months of hyper-evolution, Linus would crank out a basic kernel and a few nicely ported programs, including word processors and other office relics that were used back in '83, along with some basic GUI. (Think of xfree68x 0.0.1)

    After this, program developers would be VERY interested in the Amiga, a system running mainstream office programs based on the proven reliability of unix. Game developers would start to prefer the graphical powers and the motorola processors of the Amiga and Microsoft would be out of business before they even started. Or they'd start to develop for the Amiga, ruining my whole fantasy as it would simply turn the tables, making Amigas with Windows XP mainstream in 2002 and x86 based pcs a rarity, only to be maintained by a bunch of zealots who would make religious fundamentalists blush... :( Dammit, I hate it when I kill my own fantasies! *sob*

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  9. Re:Nostalgia! by Elwood+P+Dowd · · Score: 5, Funny

    How many times is this?

    Enough. It's enough times now. Please, dear sweet Jesus, enough.

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  10. All you have to do is by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1, Funny

    Just install this software. Trust me, you'll wish you had your VIC back.

  11. Bleh by autopr0n · · Score: 4, Funny

    No amount of filtering can make slashdot look good.

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  12. I'm nostalgic... by kitzilla · · Score: 3, Funny

    ...for old Raquel Welch movies, not crap rendering. ;-)

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  13. Re:Business strategy by sugam · · Score: 2, Funny
    You pay a small premium for a stylish design, which is worth it to many people (e.g., people who wear nice athletic gear or drive Mitsubishis).

    Wow...I never had heard of Mitsubishis being considered 'stylish'. German cars, yes, but a standard Japanese car?. 'Nice athletic gear,' well, perhaps stylish to your standard frat boy or hip hop artist, but most people would consider "stylish" being something like Kenneth Cole, Armani, Gucci, D&G etc. etc.

    At least thats my definition of style....shoot...i just realized that if thats style, i'm the lamest person around! ha ha :)

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  14. Hoping for 80 column view... by gregger · · Score: 2, Funny

    I really got used to the 80 column view of my C= 128. I hope Opera doesn't leave me out in the cold.

    When you click on a link does a sound of the 1541 disk drive gronk, grind, and click?

    Do you refresh with a SYS64738?

    TTFN

    1. Re:Hoping for 80 column view... by snake_dad · · Score: 2, Funny
      Do you refresh with a SYS64738?

      Good old times... Yeah, did that for a while, until I soldered in a resetbutton, connected to the userport. Aaah those days of replacing the CIA chips because they were not buffered... Making 2-bit sound samplers with 4 or 5 components... Adding a switch to toggle between PAL and NTSC because the latter was 25% faster (even though you couldn't see anything on the screen).. That wacky taperecorder, the small screwdriver to adjust the head... sigh.

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  15. What happens when... by robbo · · Score: 3, Funny

    What happens when it loads a page bigger than 64K?

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  16. Re:Other new stuff by typhoonius · · Score: 2, Funny

    I'm quite impressed with this second beta. With betas like this, IE7 better be damn good to not get yawned at :)

    Or it can just, you know, come with Windows.

  17. Not the Opera I know... by ffatTony · · Score: 3, Funny

    Where is the giant banner add offering something I don't care about?

    All joking aside I wish Opera the best, but I couldn't imagine using it when there are other viable options.

  18. in Soviet Russia by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1, Funny

    In Soviet Russia, Commodore 64 operates YOU!

  19. 20 years ago?!?! by NineNine · · Score: 4, Funny

    Was the C 64 really around 20 years ago?!? It doesn't seem like that long ago when I was playing Bard's Tale on one. Jesus, 20 years ago, that makes me... oh I'm depressed now.

  20. Re:Impossible Mission by Nightpaw · · Score: 3, Funny

    The truly sad thing is that I was able to beat it again. The first time I tried it. That's just...creepy.

    Wait, so it's not actually impossible? Fucking false advertising.