Here's a little mockup of what I envision would capture the spirit of
the C-64:
This is just an example, and the knobs could be made differently, or a
different colour used (we have 16 options!) but it shows the general
idea: C-64 font, no antialiasing for anything, black background... the
knobs would probably have to be a bit smaller, to make room for the
waveform selector. The waveform buttons should look like C-64 sprites,
which is easy to do - just use the palette and draw without
anti-aliasing. This also is missing the row that has the global volume,
filter etc. controls, but that shouldn't be a big thing to do once the
layout is figured out.
The knob lines can't be made without antialiasing, since they're drawn
by LMMS, but that's a minor concern IMO. (I could always tweak the knob
code to add the option though...)
I'm attaching a convenient GIMP palette I made which is as close to an
authentic C-64 palette as you can get with modern hardware. Also I
posted a link to the font earlier, but here it is again, it's free to
use for any purpose suits our needs:
http://www.dafont.com/commodore-64-pixelized.font In GIMP, it works best
by setting the size to 10px and switching off both hinting and antialiasing.
GIMP Palette
Name: C-64 palette
Columns: 4
#
0 0 0 Untitled (occurs 9750)
161 77 67 Untitled (occurs 6036)
204 127 118 Untitled (occurs 4996)
110 83 11 Untitled (occurs 4089)
203 214 137 Untitled (occurs 2174)
175 175 175 Untitled (occurs 1574)
139 139 139 Untitled (occurs 1500)
255 255 255 Untitled (occurs 1090)
99 99 99 Untitled (occurs 1021)
92 173 95 Untitled (occurs 858)
163 104 58 Untitled (occurs 416)
106 193 200 Untitled (occurs 370)
138 127 205 Untitled (occurs 318)
155 227 157 Untitled (occurs 286)
80 68 156 Untitled (occurs 174)
162 87 165 Untitled (occurs 148)
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