C64 30 Year Anniversary

DinoRex

ebbsy

Admission time - I enjoyed Commodore User more than Zzap.......

pdbhp

EnterNow wrote: »

Double deck cassette players enjoyed great success in those days

Couldn't use high speed dubbing for fear of it not working.

Myrddin

pdbhp wrote: »

Couldn't use high speed dubbing for fear of it not working.

It was risky, but when you had a lend of a mates games & under pressure to give them back...high speed dubbing saved manys a day

Dr Bob

ebbsy wrote: »

I would be interested to see what Chris Butler would have done with Outrun or Enduro Racer after his excellent take on Powerdrift.....Obviously I was not expecting great conversions but they could have been a hell of a lot better. No Forks in the road in Outrun ? Come on why bother.

I've a lot of time for the c64 version of outrun
the spectrum one looked fantastic and had the forks , but was slooooow
The CPC one was an atrocity
The c64 one was nice and fast , and while there were no forks in the road , it mean the whole thing could be handled in a single load (something like 80-90% of c64 owners were tape only back then).In fairness there was 5 versions of the game on the tape with different routes so it wasnt too bad..

DinoRex

ebbsy wrote: »

Admission time - I enjoyed Commodore User more than Zzap.......

It's not that straight forward. I think as the quality of Zzap declined the quality of CU went up. So they were both great in their time.

Also check out this guys zip stick:

Retr0gamer

I preferred Commodore Format.

DinoRex

You would!

DinoRex

Also notice the difference in the quality of girl you get with a C64c over the standard C64.

Pyongyang

Retr0gamer wrote: »

I preferred Commodore Format.

Ditto.

Retr0gamer

Commodore Format had the hotter women :P Clur looked like she would eat you alive once you got her under the covers. Claire was the girl you'd be proud to bring home to your mother.

omerin

Zap was my mag of choice and manys the joystick I broke wiggling them left and right like a mad badger trying to gain speed. The high speed copying button on my hifi at the time was a blessing

kevin2me

Happy Birthday Commodore 64

God the Memories.... I remember getting one for Christmas one year
and following year my mum sold it to her best friend, mum of my best friend for same price we paid for it year before And I went out and bought a NES and Mario and Duckhunt and I think Mario 3.

God that video of Last Ninja, C64 had some proper hard games... Unforgiving.
And my biggest memory of C64 was playing Terminator 2, came on a Cartridge, what we story with carts on C64 i cant remember there been many as I mostly had 1 cart and dozen tapes.

But T2 prob hardest game ive ever played, prob coz controls were so bad
But was very addictive, repaiing T2, motorbike chase etc...

Pyongyang

I always wanted T2 for the C64. To this day I only ever played the demo from a magazine. Only cart I had was Robocop 2.

Dr Bob

Pyongyang wrote: »

I always wanted T2 for the C64. To this day I only ever played the demo from a magazine. Only cart I had was Robocop 2.

You did pretty well then , Robocop 2 is a decent if brick hard platformer
.T2 was a typical Ocean "load of rubbish minigames" movie tie in.It even had sliding puzzle levels for crying out loud!

Spacedog

I had T2 Cart, but not instructions. I remember being stuck on the 2nd last level for years, the one where the T1000 is chasing you in the chopper. I could drive on that level for over 10 minutes, but could never reach the end.

A kid in school told me could finish that level in 15 seconds.

He informed me that you can shoot at the chopper (unlike the almost identical motorbike part on level 2)

With the exception of Meryls codec frequency in MGS, that was the longest I was ever stuck on a single game.

The Last Bandit

Whats a C64 ?

Only had a green screen Amstrad 464 growing up..

Andrew76

The Last Bandit wrote: »

Whats a C64 ?

Only had a green screen Amstrad 464 growing up..

Commodore 64

o1s1n

The Last Bandit

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sarcasm

DinoRex

I quite liked Robocop 2. Think I completed it as well.

I'd imagine it's horrible to go back to now.

Kind of crazy that they made Robocop into a wacky platformer, it feels like you're raiding Wily Wonker's chocolate factory. And they made in way that Robocop handle exactly the way you'd imagine he would if he was leaping about the place on moving platforms. The inertia was crazy.

Myrddin

DinoRex wrote: »

I quite liked Robocop 2. Think I completed it as well.

I'd imagine it's horrible to go back to now.

Kind of crazy that they made Robocop into a wacky platformer, it feels like you're raiding Wily Wonker's chocolate factory. And they made in way that Robocop handle exactly the way you'd imagine he would if he was leaping about the place on moving platforms. The inertia was crazy.

I had a demo of it on tape iirc, brilliant in its day

DinoRex

Being on cartridge meant I couldn't even use my trusty Action Replay:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y5gMerGMTG0

Looking at that now I'm remembering a lot of tears of frustration that were shed back in the day. How cheap is it the way they make you fight the Robocop 2 three times at the end?

Haha... and also you can never get 100% because their counter doesn't do triple digits.

o1s1n

Ah, I see it has a scaled back version of the same title screen as the NES one -

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rxTZ0eNq5GU

Pyongyang

I remember when I played my Robocop 2 cart, the part that annoyed the pants off of me ALL THE TIME, was that blasted level where Robocop is on those icy platforms. The game is virtually unplayable because of it.

I never did clear that game.

ebbsy

Reminds me of the conversion of Rastan Saga - possiblly had the most stupid collision detection ever.

eddhorse

Never put up what games i liked....

Blue max cos it was fun and it didn't take long to load on the counter, 022 or something.


Shinobi cos it was awesome, not as good as the arcade but still love it, damn blue ninjas.


Rainbow islands, it was tough when your rainbow went and you fell all the way back down.


Leaderboard Golf, very like Tiger woods is now :O it finally caught up on this.
Only game i could play with my dad really, get the snap right on.


Bubble Bobble, Defo favourite game, once was stuck in a 2 player game and was too busy to go bury the family dog that died, sorry "Prince".


Last Ninja II, loved it, was hard as nails at the time, youth of today wouldnt stand a chance.


New Zealand story, liked this more than Rainbow Islands, no warps though like the arcade version.


Midnight Resistance in the Night Moves pack, i probably liked this because the cheat was to press all the buttons on the keyboard at the menu screen.
Biggest book i had for the commodore keyboard was an encylopedia


SAS Combat Simulator, unique cos it had top down view and side view levels, damn hard !



Ah now that i started i cant stop, Uridium, Cabal, Gauntlet, Ghost N Goblins, I'll add more later.....


Ed

Andrew76

Some quality games listed there eddhorse. Forgot about Shinobi, was chuffed the day I got my hands on that, was excellent. Hated Midnight Resistance though, those crawling bits annoyed the feck out of me, maybe I was just crap at it. :pac:

eddhorse

Andrew76 wrote: »

Some quality games listed there eddhorse. Forgot about Shinobi, was chuffed the day I got my hands on that, was excellent. Hated Midnight Resistance though, those crawling bits annoyed the feck out of me, maybe I was just crap at it. :pac:

Maybe you didnt have an encylopedia to get you infinite lives, makes the games last longer and less rewinding tapes

Dr Bob

Andrew76 wrote: »

Some quality games listed there eddhorse. Forgot about Shinobi, was chuffed the day I got my hands on that, was excellent. Hated Midnight Resistance though, those crawling bits annoyed the feck out of me, maybe I was just crap at it. :pac:

Wasnt a fan of the home ports of Midnight reisitance , The arcade cabinet had these twisty joystick tops that let you turn the weapons 360 degrees .regular joystick or even joypads werent the same.
Midi was one of the few games I could finish on one credit , so I always had a soft spot for it.

eddhorse

luas_dublin wrote: »

Wasnt a fan of the home ports of Midnight reisitance , The arcade cabinet had these twisty joystick tops that let you turn the weapons 360 degrees .regular joystick or even joypads werent the same.
Midi was one of the few games I could finish on one credit , so I always had a soft spot for it.

Wow impressive, one credit !
From what i remember you had to collect a numbers of keys to firstly get weapons and then ultimately free your family, ! Never had enough even with my unlimited lives to free them all, kept losing some on the last bit on the ladder.

Theme tune was deadly though :

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m4mlZpuVEtc

Sparks43

eddhorse wrote: »

Never put up what games i liked....

Blue max cos it was fun and it didn't take long to load on the counter, 022 or something.
NO

Shinobi cos it was awesome, not as good as the arcade but still love it, damn blue ninjas.
MEH

Rainbow islands, it was tough when your rainbow went and you fell all the way back down.


NOT BAD

Leaderboard Golf, very like Tiger woods is now :O it finally caught up on this.
Only game i could play with my dad really, get the snap right on.


GOOD

Bubble Bobble, Defo favourite game, once was stuck in a 2 player game and was too busy to go bury the family dog that died, sorry "Prince".


VERY GOOD

Last Ninja II, loved it, was hard as nails at the time, youth of today wouldnt stand a chance.
GAME IS ****E

New Zealand story, liked this more than Rainbow Islands, no warps though like the arcade version.


VERY NICE

Midnight Resistance in the Night Moves pack, i probably liked this because the cheat was to press all the buttons on the keyboard at the menu screen.
Biggest book i had for the commodore keyboard was an encylopedia


GREAT GAME

SAS Combat Simulator, unique cos it had top down view and side view levels, damn hard !
SAY WHAT????????
Ah now that i started i cant stop, Uridium, Gauntlet, Ghost N Goblins, I'll add more later.....


Ed

Some good games there but you forgot the best game of all time :mad:


Boulder Dash


I tweet you like this Bunny wabbit

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KwPRRSiUWzQ

Einstein

i'll never forget the day I played the first game that music played as the game loaded...

I nearly shat myself

eddhorse

Ok Sparks43 thanks for shooting holes in my childhood and the games I liked,

Is Boulder Dash the only game you had?

Let's here your list

DinoRex

He also had Bolder Dash 2 and 3!

Lemming

30 years? Damn! I started out with a Vic-20 many, many moons ago; maybe about 25 years ago (Jesus I feel old now!), and it was only a few years later that I managed to convince my dad to buy a C64. Picked one up with a 1541 mk.I disk-drive and an absolute wedge of games second hand. I still have it (and a second C64 I got for free off a mate) although it's been packed away for years now.

Ah, many memorable moments

Creatures 1 & 2
Platoon
Wonderboy
Paperboy
The Last Ninja 1,2/Remix,3
Commando
Supremacy
Turrican 1 & 2
Bubble Bobble
New Zealand Story
1942
Rick Dangerous 2
Aliens
Way of the Exploding Fist
IK+
Mayhem in Monsterland
Hackers 2
Navy SEALS

etc. etc. I could be here all night


I shall leave you with the title screen & music for Platoon

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fXfkev09fHA

Sparks43

eddhorse wrote: »

Ok Sparks43 thanks for shooting holes in my childhood and the games I liked,

Is Boulder Dash the only game you had?

Let's here your list

All the posters here have issues

Ciderman likes Halo
Retro likes Chou Aniki
Luas Dublin is obsesed with outrun
Dinorex likes Disabled romantic Jrpgs and hats
Logie likes deleting posts:rolleyes:

A few of your picks are quite good Bubble Bobble ,Uridium, Midnight Resistance,Leaderboard

My favourite C64 games

Boulder Dash
Boulder Dash 2
Rick Dangerous
Magicland Dizzy(Basicly the whole Dizzy series)
Paradroid
Kikstart
Arkanoid
Flimbos Quest
Microprose Soccer

Boulder Dash 3 was chit on the c64 much better on the Spectrum

eddhorse

Sparks43 wrote: »

eddhorse wrote: »

Ok Sparks43 thanks for shooting holes in my childhood and the games I liked,

Is Boulder Dash the only game you had?

Let's here your list

All the posters here have issues

Ciderman likes Halo
Retro likes Chou Aniki
Luas Dublin is obsesed with outrun
Dinorex likes Disabled romantic Jrpgs and hats
Logie likes deleting posts:rolleyes:

A few of your picks are quite good Bubble Bobble ,Uridium, Midnight Resistance,Leaderboard

My favourite C64 games

Boulder Dash
Boulder Dash 2
Rick Dangerous
Magicland Dizzy(Basicly the whole Dizzy series)
Paradroid
Kikstart
Arkanoid
Flimbos Quest
Microprose Soccer

Boulder Dash 3 was chit on the c64 much better on the Spectrum

I did really like the dizzy series, had a pack of them in fact , dizzy down the rapids, treasure island, spellbound, magic land was there I think, may dig out a link.

Flimbo's quest a mate had on cartridge I think, so that was brill,
And Arkanoid was always a great game

I will have to look up PAradroid, think I played all the rest !

Myrddin

Sparks43 wrote: »

All the posters here have issues

Ciderman likes Halo
Retro likes Chou Aniki
Luas Dublin is obsesed with outrun
Dinorex likes Disabled romantic Jrpgs and hats
Logie likes deleting posts:rolleyes:

Woah there, OutRun is just arcade racer perfection, I'll not have a bad word said against it

DinoRex

My absolute favourite on the C64 was Myth:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oZZsgxN-dBk

Was rock hard though. Could never clear the Egyptian level. They toned down the difficulty for the Amiga version and I managed to complete that.

KeRbDoG

DinoRex wrote: »

My absolute favourite on the C64 was Myth:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oZZsgxN-dBk

Was rock hard though. Could never clear the Egyptian level. They toned down the difficulty for the Amiga version and I managed to complete that.

Always loved the animation of the character in the C64 version Myth - never really played it much though

Steve X2

Good ole Myth. I had it on the Amstrad CPC.
I think it was one of the first games I completed as a kid.

Good times.

.

Spacedog

creatures 2 death scenes... classic video game violence.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DbVkewUZyjc

Doge

OMFG!!!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y94Khr_bqNs

Doge

It may just be a new distro of linux at the end of the day,

but it's still pretty cool!

This inside look of Commodore USA is worth a gander too:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z6EswIQFV2Y

eddhorse

Just one more thing i remember from the C64, the power supply.

Seeing as saving wasn't really an option this thing used to be flaming hot, nearly burning a hole in the floor, must have burnt someones house down at some stage :

Doge

eddhorse wrote: »

Just one more thing i remember from the C64, the power supply.

Seeing as saving wasn't really an option this thing used to be flaming hot, nearly burning a hole in the floor, must have burnt someones house down at some stage :

I had a C64c model which used the middle psu (brick) and it used only get luke warm.

I still use the power brick today to power a synthesizer that uses 8 of the commodore SID sound chips.


The reason the brick doesn't get as hot is because it has a massive heatsink, and the entire circuit is surrounded by a solid block of resin.
(Almost like pouring concrete over the entire circuit)
Here's what it looks like inside:






The drawback of the brick is that if the fuse blows inside, you can't replace it as you can't get at it.

You can get at the other 2 wedge shaped PSUs to replace the fuse or components, since they are hollow.

I reckon the C64c model draws less current than the original breadbin model, so it would have generated less heat.

CathalDublin

eddhorse wrote: »

Just one more thing i remember from the C64, the power supply.

Seeing as saving wasn't really an option this thing used to be flaming hot, nearly burning a hole in the floor, must have burnt someones house down at some stage :

I had that middle one and it died at some stage:(

Doge

Is anyone rocking their Commodore with a DIN - S-Video cable?

In case you didn't know:
Yes! - The later commodore models are capable of producing S-Video!

http://radagast.bglug.ca/C64_svideo/C64_Svideo.html


As long as you have the 8-pin Video output, and not the 5-pin, you can output S-video using a special cable:




Link

Mr E

I was browsing youtube for some good old C64 SID memories and came across this.
If it doesn't get your head nodding, then you're not a C64 fan.

Reyn Ouwehand (former member of the Maniacs of Noise) ... talented guy. Fantastic looping and layering.....

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PTSUR3RHh9M