To: Hoverbug
Still got a Commodore 64 in the closet. Didja know you can download an emulator for your PC and download hundreds of the original C64 games with the crappy graphics and sound on your pc?
Pretty cool, and you can play "Mule" again!!!
To: Central Scrutiniser
Didn't know about the d/l capability.
Most of the games I played on the "Comode-a-dor" was Infocom stuff. Zork, Deadline, etc.
Learned to program in basic, got an assembler and did some machine language stuff on the 64.
BUT, the neatest thing was to put an e-prom in it, wire a switch to look at the ram UNDERNEATH the ROM when a game cartridge was installed, make copies of the games, take out the LDA, STA commands that would screw up the game if it were running in RAM but not ROM (copy-protection), and make copies of game cartridges on floppy disk. Give it the old "Load < gamename >,8,1" command, and away you'd go!
FOR ARCHIVAL PROPERTIES ONLY, of course.
Hb
To: Central Scrutiniser
Want Space Taxi! Want Seven Cities of Gold!
Waaaah!
(I'm told that Space Taxi, at least, has not become available for C-64 emulation. Gosh, that was a cool game.)
Hey Taxi! (Squish.)
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