Commodore 64 Emulators

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Commodore 64 Emulators

Has anybody used these?
Do you download them or buy them?
Are they any good?

Mr E

Best C64 emulator (no contest) is CCS64.

http://www.computerbrains.com/ccs64/

Download the DirectX version.

C64 emulation is pretty much perfect, in my opinion. You don't need a fast PC either (P2-300+).

If you're looking for games, there are lots of links on the above site.

Hope this helps!

LoGiE

http://www.c64.com
http://www.c64.net
don't waste your time anywhere else these sites have everything EVERYTHING!!:D

Kyro any chance we can get a sticky with the likes of the above in it? Thought there was a thread with loads a sites but...

Ronan|Raven

Ill get a list of sites and get a sticky put up soon the last one appeared to disappear

LoGiE

Ill get a list of sites and get a sticky put up soon the last one appeared to disappear

Nice one Ronan|Raven:D

Keeks

Originally posted by Ronan|Raven
Ill get a list of sites and get a sticky put up soon the last one appeared to disappear

The old one can be found here.

Ronan|Raven

Thx, as for me god im useless

Krusty_Clown

CCS64 doesn't like my machine at home for some reason..
Must be a strage Win2k/graphicvd card combo..

I've tried all of the various resolutions and display settings..

Anyone recommend another C64 emulator with nearly as good results?

I'm dying to play:
Paradroid
Creatures
Racing Destruction Set
Laser Squad etc...

Mossy Monk

i was reading this thread last night and it got me thinking about my days with a C64. off i went to download it and i got some games to play. the games come on no problem but i can't play them using the keyboard. do i need a joystick or can i play around with some settings so i can use the keyboard?
thanks

Keeks

is it CCS64 that ur using. if so trying pressing F9 when it loads. Under the options menu, u'll see a submenu called input. her you can setup keys to simulate joystick movments. If ur still having problems let us know

Mossy Monk

yeah, it's the CCS64. i did what you did and used the cursor keys for up, down, left and right. i tried it out on Pacman and pushing the cursor buttons only bring me back to the start of the game. i'm seriously confused with this thing

Keeks

So you redefined the keyboard joystick keyset for one of the keysets....but did you go back to the top of the menu and set the control port mode to that key set?

Mossy Monk

no i didn't. i'll give it a try later on because i've got to go now. i'll report back tomorrow

thanksfor your help Keeks

Keeks

not a bother m8

Mossy Monk

i think i have seriously messed up the whole options part. i hate to ask this but could you please give me step by step instructions

Keeks

Press F9
Cursor Down to Options and press RETURN
Curor Down to Input and press Return
Cursor Down to "Define Joystick Keyset"

In this menu you can change the 3 different keysets that are defined to whatever keys up want to use. normally you would only define one set, but u can use 2 if you are playing 2-player gmaes with a friend (if u have any )

onece u've deifne the keys you want to use to simulate the joystick press return. U will only have to do this once. It will save them for you.

This will bring you back out to the "input" menu
Cursor up to the "control Port 1" option and cylce trough the options (with the left/right arrow keys) untill "joystick" appears
Cursor down to "Mode" and select what user defined keyset u want to use. the correspons to Port 1 off the C64

Repaet for port two.

What i do is define keyset one, and use it for both ports one and two


hope that helps

Mossy Monk

that's great. works a treat. now to find a friend to play 2 player Rampage
thanks so much for your help Keeks

tele

Was using VICE for a while, it seemed like a pretty decent emulator. Got a whole pile of dizzy games, god....... the amount of hours that I spent waiting for dizzy games to load.

TinCool

The longest load time on any game I had on the C64 was China Miner. This game took 15 minutes to load. You may say, "No Way", but I'd say "damn straight", cos I was that said I timed it. I do remember having Elite on tape and a mate of mine ordered it. However, when it arrived it was on disc (5 1/4). As I owned a 1541 disc drive we swapped. My God, it was great. Elite now took literally seconds to load up. Ah, the memories.

Keeks

Speeking of load times, one of the best was ghostbusters on tape. It literatley took seconds, but for does few seconds u could play space invaders while it loaded. Brilliant. I used to stop the tape and play invaders, then press play again when i got sick of it and play ghostbusters.

tele

Christ lads,
I always got load times way longer than that, I used to have ghostbusters on tape too but i think it used to take longer than that, the space invaders wa a good idea though. the longest games to load were the dizzy games and I also had a game called K.R.I.S. that took a ages to load. I reckon I waited a good 30-40 mins for some of those games to load. I used to start them, go have dinner, fight with my brother and then go back an catch the end of the load.
And we didn't mind back then, now you wait 5 or 6 seconds for a ps2 to load and you scream at the tv

Mr E

Worst load times in my memory were a crap Quicksilva game called Purple Turtles, and a Firebird game called Kokatoni Wilf (sp.?).

Can't remember load times exactly, but they took from 0 to 180 on the C2N counter :-)

stevoslice

did NE one have the simpsons tape, That game took ages to load, and then the second level was absolutely impossible...

Raskolnikov

Yea the Simpsons was a pretty tough (and crappy game)

Turbo Outrun was one of the first C64 games i ever completed. It took about 10 minutes to load up, then after each level it took another 5 minutes to load each level up. I still finished it though :P I was insane and 7 at the time

Pigman

Originally posted by RASKOLNIKOV
Yea the Simpsons was a pretty tough (and crappy game)

Turbo Outrun was one of the first C64 games i ever completed. It took about 10 minutes to load up, then after each level it took another 5 minutes to load each level up. I still finished it though :P I was insane and 7 at the time

Funniest thing I remember about loading games was with Ocean Multiloaders. If you managed to get to level 2 in a game but got killed the prompt would tell you to rewind the tape back to the start so it could reload level 1. However if you just pressed play the stupid thing would go right ahead and load level 3. Ah, moral corruption begins in such subtle ways.

Turbo outrun rocked too! I remember getting it for Xmas and being totally mind****ed because it was the first time I heard 'speech' coming out of a computer. Wow man!

Mr E

Aye.... that brilliant Jeroen Tel/Maniacs of Noise intro music.... fantastic stuff. Brings back memories......

- Dave.

TinCool

Originally posted by Pigman

Turbo outrun rocked too! I remember getting it for Xmas and being totally mind****ed because it was the first time I heard 'speech' coming out of a computer. Wow man!

Man I feel old. The first C64 Game to have speech was Tale of the Arabian Nights. The speech itself was unbelivably "computer" sounding and I believe that the speech when the game loaded up went a little like this.


"Tale of the Arabian Nights. Written by Ian Grey. Music arranged by Chris Cox. Copyright, Interceptor Micros, 1984."

Same guy who wrote China Miner, which I thought personally, was a much better game (one was just as hard as the other (impossible more to the point)).

.. I went to the bother of finding the speech on the net and low and behold here it

is

DiscoStu

On the subject of speech and eighties 8bit computers.

What was the first Spectrum game to feature "sampled speech"?

Big prize for anyone who knows(not really though).

TinCool

It wasn't Ghostbusters or Beach Head 2 or I-Ball by any chance ?

zAbbo

Double Dragon maybe, any Midnight Resistance fans here - ahh nostalga when you could buy a decent game for a fiver and get around 20 full free games with c64 mags, ahh when CG+VG was decent with your man Dave Perry was around, then GamesMaster. I love it

DiscoStu

twas Robocop. that is all.