Commodore 64 is 25 years old

Kizzume · Posted: Thu Feb 07, 2008 3:58 pm Post subject: Commodore 64 is 25 years old

Some of my favorites:

Montezuma's Revenge
Bruce Lee
The Goonies
Mission on Thunderhead
Maxwell Manor
Gianna Sisters (and the ABYSS cracking group version, Super Mario, and my weird version, super fart bros where he leaves destructive gas that destroys the background when it hits the ground)

I used to do the whole BBS thing too. Early pirated games. The Byte Bandit virus.

And who remembers these?

Action Replay IV
Final Cartridge III
FastLoad by Epyx

Hackfest · Joined: 04 Dec 2007 Posts: 413

I enjoy my C64 emulator, but I think I'd rather have the real thing.

Kizzume · Posted: Thu Feb 14, 2008 4:00 pm Post subject:

The real thing is cool, but I've gotta admit--I think I like the emulators more because I can do things with them that I couldn't on the real thing:

For instance: with Frodo (a c64 emulator) you can increase the CIA rate of the emulated machine--so if you're playing one of those wireframe 3d games, you can actually get 30 fps instead of 5 seconds a frame, like with flight sims and such.

Then there are screen enhancements that can be done on the emulators. Then there's the fact that you can view hacker demos the way they were meant to be seen--in PAL instead of NTSC.

The thing that emulators CAN'T do, however, is blur the colors in the same way that the composite or s-video connections would blur things--so if you put a chekerboard (single pixel) pattern between, red & dark gray, or brown and dark blue, or light green and light gray, or a couple others, they blend to create a new color, and some games would take advantage of that. When you view them in an emulator, you just see the checkerboard pattern instead of the new color.