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Then you apparently didn't look very hard.

ftp://arnold.c64.org/pub/games...
ftp://arnold.c64.org/pub/games...
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Then you apparently didn't look very hard.

ftp://arnold.c64.org/pub/games...
ftp://arnold.c64.org/pub/games...
ftp://arnold.c64.org/pub/games...
ftp://arnold.c64.org/pub/games...

Then you apparently didn't look very hard.

ftp://arnold.c64.org/pub/games...
ftp://arnold.c64.org/pub/games...
ftp://arnold.c64.org/pub/games...
ftp://arnold.c64.org/pub/games...

Then you apparently didn't look very hard.

ftp://arnold.c64.org/pub/games...
ftp://arnold.c64.org/pub/games...
ftp://arnold.c64.org/pub/games...
ftp://arnold.c64.org/pub/games...

I don't know of any game that this archive doesn't have. C64 forever! :)

I use Vice on my desktop computer and Frodo C64 on my Android phone. Accordingly, I don't need an extra gadget to play with my Commodore 64.

Gamebase64 has everything you never needed to know about C64 games, Girls of '64 for everything in 8-bit nudity, and AppsnToolsBase64 for everything in utilities, business and productivity applications.

All c64 programs are tiny in modern terms; an uncompressed 1541 floppy disk image is only 170k. So you can carry every significant Commodore 64 program that was every released on a single flash drive or on your phone, and have plenty of room to spare.

Under-appreciated, you say?

On CP/M:

• WordStar, one of the most influental word processors of its time. Even today, several character-mode text editors make use some of the shortcuts which originated on WordStar.
• The CP/M operating system itself, which was quite popular back in the day and gave inspiration to PC-DOS/MS-DOS.

On the Commodore 64:

• GEOS by Berkeley Softworks. Who would have thought the venerable C64 could host a GUI system almost making it comparable to the first Macintosh models (not quite, but suprisingly close, given the 8-bit processor, memory limits etc.) There was a host of serious productivity applications for this environment.
• PageFox: a desktop publishing system for the C64.
• Microrhythm: a digital drum machine based on the undocumented sample playback features of the SID chip.
• The SID audio chip, which was way more feature-rich than its competitors of the time, and in some ways comparable to a “real” synthesizer, giving actual character and resonance to computer music, instead of just beeps and blips. Its creator, Bob Yannes, later went on to found Ensoniq, a company which designed and manufactured actual musical instruments (keyboards, samplers, etc.) The SID was a unique piece of audio hardware which enabled the musical software of the C64 to do its magic – and its legacy still lives on in the form of numerous emulators, vast sound archives and libraries (such as HVSC), custom-built musical instruments based on the chip (such as the SIDStation), etc. This is one of those cases where a piece of hardware has been inspirational and influental and enabled a number of software applications which would have been pointless if it weren’t for the hardware.

On the Amiga platform:

• (The Ultimate) SoundTracker by Karsten Obarski, later followed by the even more popular, more advanced clones or derivatives: NoiseTracker and ProTracker. These started the whole computer music “tracker” genre as we know it today – with four sound channels in a stereo arrangement and digital instrument samples, no less.
• Audio Master, one of the first digital audio sample editors for an affordable personal computer. Supported stereo sound as well. (Often accompanied by inexpensive audio digitizers attached to the printer port.)
• Deluxe Paint by Dan Silva of Electronic Arts – the first paint program for the Amiga. Taking a different approach from its predecessors on other platforms (which were mostly toys), the Deluxe Paint was a very powerful bitmap graphics art package, featuring advanced multi-color blitter-enhanced free-form brush handling features and color cycli

The C64 has a volume control. 0 to 255 if I recall correctly

It was 0 to 15, but yes.

Well, there are ways around that. If using a triangle waveform as a ramp DAC isn't a cool hack, I don't know what is.

There is a C64 version with 4-player support as well.

>>>Super Sex Positions * Hot Sexy Videos

Do these look anything like this?
http://girls.c64.org/a__girls64.php

>>>in 140 pictures or less

How about 140 bytes or less? http://girls.c64.org/

You PAID for BBS porn? Gosh. I got all my 8-bit and 16-bit nudity for free:
http://girls.c64.org/a__girls64.php

http://bitworld.bitfellas.org/demo.php?id=309 (Porn Demo) "The 1985 Amiga was considered one of the first CPU's capable of handling high resolution, hard-core porn. This was achieved by putting a big juicy HAM inside the case, allowing the Amiga to display it's entire 12-bit palette of 4096 colors at once." - http://uncyclopedia.wikia.com/wiki/Amiga

By that logic, wouldn't NeXT Step have been the most secure UNIX ever?

No that would be lunix

Ironically enough, the successor Giana Sisters DS is an official NintendoDS game. Not to be confused with Giana Sisters DS, which is a home brew port of the original (using a build-in C64 emulator and a few extra game specific hacks).

These days most companies don't really seem to care about other companies cloning their gameplay, as thats basically was everybody is doing anyway.

No Lochlear - here is the best I could find: http://girls.c64.org/p_bloempjes_and_byties_01.gif (an amazing 160x200x16 colors)

http://www.micro-paradise.com/Gifs/Images/Amiga/Amiga_sex_tetris_01.png (352x240x64 colors)
http://www.micro-paradise.com/Gifs/Images/Amiga/Amiga_sex_tetris_02.png (Amiga Tetris)

Stickman from 1986 - http://codinghorror.typepad.com/.a/6a0120a85dcdae970b0128777032aa970c-pi (4100 colors)
Another Amiga image - http://image.absoluteastronomy.com/images/encyclopediaimages/h/ha/ham6example.png

It's been so long I cannot recall if the code was in that book or if I used this portion of it to create the program.
http://project64.c64.org/hw/1541_tricks.txt

I can't even find the program that ran on the C64 to stop the knock on the 1541.

This guy does http://almighty.c64.org/ . And check out http://tech.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=03/09/18/1857204

As for the whole gaming on phones thing.. I really don't see the point in it. Maybe if you do a lot of bus journeys or something. The only time I used to play games on my phone was in my university lectures. Since then I have maybe played while waiting for food at a takeaway place. Other than that, I'm happy with my PS3 and HDTV, thanks. I've hardly ever used my PSP or DS either.

Did somebody say strip poker?

Here you go. Some classic games you ought to check out: http://girls.c64.org/ (NSFW)

Hey! The guy on the bottom left looks like me! - http://girls.c64.org/title_c64classbyitself.jpg I had that exact-same shirt. Man I was stylin'

>>>I won't post the link to it. It takes very little to induce the slashdot effect on that hard

A wise man. But here's some other cool Commodore=64 stuff to check out. Remember this stuff all works on a machine with only a 0.001 gigahertz processor and 0.064 megabytes of RAM.

- A web browser - http://www.armory.com/~spectre/cwi/hl/
- A 1984 Mac-style OS - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/GEOS_(8-bit_operating_system)
- A true multitasking OS - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Contiki-C64.png
- A photo viewer for your porn... oops, JPEGs - http://www.ffd2.com/fridge/jpeg/
- Okay here you go (NSFW) - http://girls.c64.org/ :-)

Here's another fullscreen "video" from around 1985. It took all of the Commodore 64's 1 megahertz and 16 color power to generate this gem. Presumably she removes her top after you press the spacebar. (no nudity) http://girls.c64.org/a_anime-tion_02.gif

>>>thx for the porn

I still remember my first downloaded porn "video". It was about 64 kilobytes, took about 10 minutes to download, was a grainy 320x200, and only lasted 1/2 a second. It looped repeating the same "action" over-and-over which I'm sure you can guess what that was.

I then upgraded to a 4000-color 7 megahertz Amiga so I could get something more realistic-looking. ;-) Anyway here's that original movie that I downloaded ~25 years ago (porn) http://girls.c64.org/a_porno_movie_02.gif . And if for some strange reason you want to download it, you can find it here (porn) http://girls.c64.org/a__show.php?squery=&sfield=&cat=ani&style=&offset=41

>>>thx for the porn

I still remember my first downloaded porn "video". It was about 64 kilobytes, took about 10 minutes to download, was a grainy 320x200, and only lasted 1/2 a second. It looped repeating the same "action" over-and-over which I'm sure you can guess what that was.

I then upgraded to a 4000-color 7 megahertz Amiga so I could get something more realistic-looking. ;-) Anyway here's that original movie that I downloaded ~25 years ago (porn) http://girls.c64.org/a_porno_movie_02.gif . And if for some strange reason you want to download it, you can find it here (porn) http://girls.c64.org/a__show.php?squery=&sfield=&cat=ani&style=&offset=41

the Kyocera lady brags about how their new phone has a dedicated music player with "8 megabytes of storage".

Which is actually quite a bit if you listen to SID or NSF chiptunes or tracker files in an 8-bit style. For example:

• Rhythmic noise in a 15 KB S3M
• ReMix of a song from Nintendo's Balloon Fight in a 100 KB S3M
• Ambient in a 30 KB S3M
• Dance pop in a 5 KB NSF
• More dance pop in a 5 KB NSF
• Numerous soundtracks from NES and C64 games

It's too bad the official firmware of most popular portable music players can't play chiptune formats or tracker formats.

Actually... Check out the lng/lunix project.

they're just saying whatever $10M in legal will buy them to scare people away from piracy that's cost them $10B over the last 10 years.

Since the age of computers has dawned, information is set free. The copyright holders are not losing millions or billions. WE are gaining millions and billions, we are setting information free. Crap hollywood movies will go on being made, don't worry. Even this won't kill them.
I remember when I had a C64 we all shared around games, we wouldn't have bought them all. There were utilities like TURBOCOPY which we shared around even more.
That was in the days before ubiquitous internet. In the days of VHS. That's why the pirate bay symbol uses a Cassette tape. We used to use tape-recorders to copy games and music. That's why even if they kill the pirate bay, information is set free, it's been a long time coming, no-one can stop it now.
No silly corporate sponsored laws can stop it. No artist can stop it. Artist will have to go back to earning their money rather than relying on recorded artifacts to earn their money for them.

http://noname.c64.org/csdb/group/?id=2059

-monk coast

Seriously who cares. He has no technical skills or coding ability.

Check out his claim to fame: http://noname.c64.org/csdb/scener/?id=974

Worthless like every other republican.

Cheers!

Regardless of whether it's him or not, people change. We've all done stupid things when we were young. I just hope that, if he's confronted about it, he doesn't try to lie. Hell, he can put it the same way Clinton did when people asked if he smoked marijuana. "I cracked software but didn't distribute it". That last part is a joke. :-)

For more guitar action, be sure to check out Frets on Fire

With a little bit of google-ing you can apply a 2-player mod and import all the music from Guitar Hero 1, 2, Encore and 3...

Several people have mentioned emulation, I'd recommend a Commodore 64 emulator, there are tons of good 2 (or more) player games, here's a short list of games to try:

• MULE
• Dragonriders of Pern
• Robot Rascals (better if you can get the cards)
• Mail Order Monsters
• Realm of Impossibility
• Demon Stalkers
• Jumpman
• The Goonies (excellent 2-player co-op game)
• Summer Games
• Summer Games 2
• Winter Games
• California Games

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You can find everything you need to play the above here!

My favorite C64 emulator is WinVICE

For more guitar action, be sure to check out Frets on Fire

With a little bit of google-ing you can apply a 2-player mod and import all the music from Guitar Hero 1, 2, Encore and 3...

Several people have mentioned emulation, I'd recommend a Commodore 64 emulator, there are tons of good 2 (or more) player games, here's a short list of games to try:

• MULE
• Dragonriders of Pern
• Robot Rascals (better if you can get the cards)
• Mail Order Monsters
• Realm of Impossibility
• Demon Stalkers
• Jumpman
• The Goonies (excellent 2-player co-op game)
• Summer Games
• Summer Games 2
• Winter Games
• California Games

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You can find everything you need to play the above here!

My favorite C64 emulator is WinVICE

If you still have one of your old Commodore 64 disk drives then you can cable the drive to your PC and create images of the C-64 disks and use them in an emulator.

http://sta.c64.org/xcables.html

There are options for your Amiga floppies as well:

http://www.amigaforever.com/kb/3-118.html

Actually, in a great feat of irony, I was listening to some Jeroen Tel right as I saw this story pop up. The High-Voltage SID Collection has a huge amount of C64 tunes available for download -- and quickly too since the files are around 5 to 50KB for a song.

Sidplay 2 does a great job playing them and there's a plugin for XMMS.

-Josh

That reminds me of the Commodore 64 web server that slashdot reported about 5 1/2 years ago. That site went down within no time too, but ink's mirror is still online.

"If you stored something on a floppy disc just three or four years ago, you'd have a hard time finding a modern computer capable of opening it"

The XM1541 multitask cable.

Actually, C*Base is the preferred flavor nowadays, and 3.3 was just released:

C*Base 3.3

You gotta move with the times, man.

http://girls.c64.org/ Oh, and a great i hate apple youtube video: http://youtube.com/watch?v=ps_LSn4boQE

They've released Atari 2600 compilations for consoles and Windows. You can usually find them pretty cheap for example here.

Now for Commodore 64 - nothing on the legal side I guess, but this site has been around forever:

ftp://arnold.c64.org/pub/games/

It is true. The C64 demo scene is alive and well. Now if the cops and the courts would trust one of them is different question.
What gets me is how none of the "experts" can handle anything that isn't a PC. I wounder if the guy had been running Linux, BSD, Minix, SkyOS, an Amiga, or Atari ST if they would be just as lost.
Here is a shop that sells cables that will let you read C64 disks on a PC http://sta.c64.org/x1541shop.html
I suggest they also google PETASCII if they want to break the encryption.

There's a mini version of UNIX avalible for the CBM64 called LUnix which seems pretty interesting, though I haven't tried it out on any of my Commodores yet...you can do some amazing things still on Commodores, don't doubt it! I've even still got my COMPUNET modem too, hehe!

Not good enough for you ?
http://girls.c64.org/a__show.php?squery=Nipson&sfi eld=creator

1. Download an emulator. CCS64 does the trick nicely.

2. Buy/Build a parallel cable that will interface a 1541 drive to a PC. http://sta.c64.org/xa1541.html

3. Start copying or get a dot matrix printer and get cracking.

Aint that difficult, only need to think it through. I got GEOS to run in CCS64 easy peasy, now only if I could get 1581 emulation to run properly, i'd be happy.

Actually a 555 timer is all that is required to create a basic serial interface that will do 4800bps. I have one I built at home but I have since lost the plans.

That isn't really required though. A X1541 Cable is very easy to make and will read all his disks no problem.

And I don't recall many people issuing pirated games and applications waiting 5 years, so that the copyright holder recoups his investment. If they do, they need to seriously rename this '0day' shit.

http://arnold.c64.org/

From my guess, about 10 - 30% of what's on there are re-cracks of 20 year old software so it works with emulators.

It's obscure, sure, but, if you look around, you'll be VERY surprised at the amount of effort crackers are putting in on really old software.

That doesn't mean it's popular, though. You're right that a hell of a lot more people are using warez windows XP than playing Impossible Mission on their C64 emulator. But at the same time, not everyone using warez windows XP hasn't paid for it. I'm using warez right now, despite having a valid windows XP CD key stuck to my box because the hacked up version from The Pirate Bay is way better than the one on the CD from Microsoft. Is that wrong? To me it's no more "wrong" than writing in the margins of a textbook, assuming the textbook has been paid for.

I think he meant MODs or C64 music. The "C64 music," was SID files, cleverly named after the SID chip. IIRC, the later SID players supported lyrics complete with a little bouncing ball, and I vaguely remember downloading these files from Q-Link back in my early double digits.

Anyway, MODs came out in 1987, which is the same decade as 1982 -- the year the C64 was released.

So I guess if I'm sharing the HVSC, I'm quite the suspect for investigation? Seems logical to me.

Though I don't think he ever did it, a friend of mine figured he could push full motion video to a c64 from a pc link cable and software he made. We estimated the maximum theoretical transfer rate was about 36KB/s.

Far be it for me to diminish your story, but I did an F3 search for all my SID files (20327 of em, more files than any other music type) in the entire music directory, and it took about 15 seconds. Now that it's cached it takes about 3 seconds for successive searches on those directories. Most of the CPU time is spent in Explorer doing file name matching. dir \music\*.sid /s is similar. This is on an Athlon XP 2800, 1GB RAM, nVidia chipset, a 100GB NTFS volume and Windows Server 2003 sp1. Are you sure your filesystem isn't corrupted? What FS are you using, btw? You may need to defrag the MFT. When you say it hangs, do you mean the entire OS or just Explorer? Also, Explorer (shell) type searches will also search the index of ZIP files, so if you have a large or damaged ZIP file, Explorer might be choking on it. If you want the shell to quit doing that, unregister the zip folder support library:
regsvr32 /u %windir%\system32\zipfldr.dll

>SpeedScript?

Yeah, that sounds right!!! I know that was it. It was soo cool, all my friends would come over and do their papers on it too. All written in assembler too! I remember adding a spellchecker to it from COMPUTE! Gazette magazine.

Hey I found a version for the Atari documented here on the web, you might like to read it, its even got the codes to enter in with MLX to build it:
http://www.atariarchives.org/speedscript/ch2.php#s pl

Someone else posting about speedscript on the C64 here too:
http://www.troyandjessica.com/article/12/ode-to-th e-commodore-64.html

Found a manual here:
http://project64.c64.org/misc/SpeedScript%203.2.tx t

I used a Citizen 120D dot matrix printer, worked great.

When I went to college I used a 2400baud modem, with a vt100 emulator on a C64 (Which was only 40cols BTW), but you could hit a hot key and it would switch to this TINY FONT to show the whole 80x24 vt100 screen.

Man...I remember having to use a whole crapload of key combinations to get things like the GOLD-KEY to work for my EDT session.

But by god, my C=64 got me a pretty good ways through the first few years of engineering school including a serious amount of hacking an coding on VMS from home.

Damn, where did we go wrong? Think just don't seem as fun anymore.