Wheels (operating system)

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The Wheels operating system for accelerated Commodore 64 home computers is partially based on (and generally backwards compatible with) GEOS. Wheels grants new abilities to the C64: the ability to play movies and MP3s, graphic web browsing (and limited server abilities), and true multitasking.

[edit] System requirements

Wheels sets some steep demands on the hardware: a CMD SuperCPU accelerator (a 20 MHz WDC 65816 processor in place of the C64's own 1 MHz MOS 6510 processor) and at least a 128 KB RAM expansion. However, it also supports hardware that standard GEOS and the standard C64 KERNAL cannot handle, including hard drives (up to four GB), high-density floppy disks (up to 1.6 MB), and expanded RAM addressing (up to 16 MB).

[edit] Licence

Wheels is shared source. Although the source code of Wheels is available for public viewing without requiring admission to a license, the software itself is copyrighted and commercial, and viewers who do not own the Wheels software are expected not to compile the code.