So you’ve just got your brand new PC running a fresh new copy of Windows 7, Microsoft’s latest operating system. Yet you don’t like the clean UI, the aero effects and fancy graphics, it’s all just too much for you. Well maybe you would prefer something a bit more dated, I’m not talking about Windows XP, or even Windows 2000 for that matter, no I’m talking about a Commodore 64.
Back in the day, when computers were really just for big businesses and would occupy a whole floor, you would never dream of owning your own PC. Well eventually they managed to shrink them a bit for the home consumer and one of the most popular models was of course the Commodore 64. It was one of the first PC’s to boot without a floppy disk and came with a generous 64 kilobytes of memory. While programs were loaded on using a tape drive. Well if you want to take a step back in time and make your new Windows 7 machine look like the Commodore 64 here’s how to do so.
Simply download the Commodore 64 Themepack and install it just as you would with any theme.
It contains 3 background wallpapers the recreate the look of the old C-64 screen. It also has desktop icons for your User folder (a miniature C-64 screen); your My Computer link (a C-64 computer), and Recycle Bin (that 1541 floppy drive-the green LED illuminates when the Recycle Bin contains something). The window colors re-create the beige of the C-64′s casing, and the system font should look familiar to any C-64 user. You will also find some of the fonts change to big black bold writing as well.
And there you go, the legendary Commodore 64 running on your Windows machine.
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