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Nostalgic Commander

bemyak

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Description

Your watch, circa 1992.

Nostalgic Commander turns your Pebble Time 2 into a DOS-era panel: cyan frames over Norton blue, an IBM VGA bitmap font, caption-titled status bars, solid block-glyph progress bars with percentages. Exact EGA colors β€” Pebble's display uses the same channel steps DOS did.

Three themes that rotate on their own (brightest by day, darkest at night):

- DIALOG β€” Turbo Vision dialog box, black on light grey (06:00–14:00)
- COMMANDER PANEL β€” cyan frames, white entries over EGA blue (14:00–22:00)
- SHADOWED PANEL β€” the same panel dimmed to grey on black (22:00–06:00)

…or lock your favorite.

Six complication slots, filled your way: weather, humidity, precipitation chance (peak over the next 12 hours), the day's high/low, steps, sleep, heart rate, active minutes, Bluetooth status, AQI, UV, a combined AQI/UV view, short date, or Swatch .beat time β€” or leave empty.

The wide middle slot holds the date, a DOS progress bar (β–ˆβ–ˆβ–ˆβ–ˆβ–ˆβ–ˆβ–ˆβ–‘β–‘β–‘ 70% for steps or battery)… or the headliner: the full-weather strip. Condition, temperature, humidity and rain as four captioned chips inside their own frame β€” ─COND─TMP─HUM──PCP─ β€” Norton's bottom bar, forecasting.

The details are opinionated: Celsius always signed (+22Β°), colors only where they mean something (humidity stays quiet at 30–60%), UV shows what's coming rather than what's over. And the readings know a trick or two the changelog won't tell you.

Date format, units, and day-of-week placement are configurable. That β€” plus the theme picker β€” is the entire settings page. Good defaults over knob sprawl.

Weather by Open-Meteo, straight from the phone: no API key, no account, refreshed every 30 minutes.

Weather/AQI/UV data: Open-Meteo.com (CC BY 4.0).

Based on tuiface by Elizardbeth, used under the PolyForm Noncommercial license.
  • Developerbemyak
  • CategoryFaces
  • PlatformsTime 2
  • Updated2026-08-05
  • Version1.3.1