c64Writer ⌨️

Taking inspiration from zen text-editors like Ommwriter, c64Writer is a bare-bones cross-platform text-processor created to look like the famous Commodore 64 BASIC environment. The editor is kept very simple on purpose to help the writer focus on what matters most: words.

Features

• Commodore 64 system-wide colours and fonts
• Full screen mode
• Copy/paste, save/load functionality

Installation and Updating

1. Create a folder for the application (eg. ~/c64Writer).

2. Install all required dependencies.

   python3 -m pip install -r requirements.txt
   

3. Run in a terminal:

   cd ~/c64Writer
   git clone https://github.com/c64-dev/c64Writer.git --branch master
   

Update

In order to update the application, open a terminal and run:

cd ~/c64Writer
git pull

Usage

Go to the application's folder and run:

python3 c64Writer.py

or if you are in Windows enter:

c:\python<PYTHON_VERSION_HERE>\python.exe c64Writer.py