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About 3800 C64 games are available or will be soon published on MyAbandonware. A very small part compared to the 20000+ games released by TOSEC (The Old School Emulation Center) and 25000 listed by Gamebase 64, but you can already spend days playing the Commodore 64 games we have. This quick how-to will help you run C64 games on Windows, Mac or Linux.
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Although C64 emulation is less popular than DOS emulation, a strong community is still active on websites like C64.com or Lemon64.com. Several emulators are available, although the vast majority of them are now inactive project.
Commodore 64 emulators
Several emulators are still active, though two of the list below are just front-ends and use existing emulators:
- VICE: stands for 'Versatile Commodore Emulator' and sometimes called WinVICE, VICE supports tons of operating systems (Windows, Linux, Mac OS X...) and also provide emulation for almost all Commodore computer systems. A very solid emulator with tons of options, recommended. Note: select amd64/x64 version without SDL.
- CCS64: an ongoing project started in 1995, still active but Windows only. CCS64 is a shareware without limits, if you enjoy it, please register your version to support the author.
- C64 Forever: an easy to use VICE front-end for Windows, with a free and a paid version for advanced users.
- Hoxs64: a more recent C64 emulator, supports Windows XP and up.
- Gamebase: a nice front-end and database program to play games on various platforms, including the Commodore computers.
As VICE is the most versatile emulator, this page will use it for the tutorial. Other emulators are quite similar and should not pose any problem.
Running C64 games in VICE
Note: This tutorial is focused on Windows, but it's almost the same on other operating systems.
VICE comes with several emulators for the various computers released by Commodore. Most of the time, you will just want to run the Commodore 64 emulator, named x64.exe (or x64.app on Mac).
After downloading a C64 game and unzipping it, you will usually find one .NFO containing game information, and one or more files containing the actual game code. Game files can be stored in various formats:
- .d64, disk format: the most popular format for games, some of the later games where released on several disks.
- .tap or .t64, tape format: tapes where quite popular too, around 7000 games were released in this cheap and slow format, according to C64Tapes.org.
- .crt, cartridge format: cartridge were fast, but very expensive, less than 400 cartridge games are listed by C64-Wiki.
- .prg, plain program file: program files that can be loaded immediately, not a physical format per se.
Look for the game file or the first one if the game is on multiple disks. Most of the time, multiple disks are named GAME0.D64, GAME1.D64, and so on.
Drag and drop into VICE
Most C64 games can be launched in just a few seconds with a simple drag and drop of the game file, or the first file, into the VICE main window, where you can see the Commodore 64 prompt screen. Alternatively, you may select File > Smart attach Disk/Tape, then select the program name to run in the image contents.
Simple drag and drop of Chip's Challenge d64 file into WinVICE window. Works the same on Mac.
Click on the picture to see a bigger GIF.
Games with multiple disks will prompt you to insert disk number two or more at some point. Use the File > Attach Disk Image to attach the required disk, then press a button to continue.
Running games in VICE is quite straightforward most of the time. If you have trouble to run games, try to edit options in Settings > Peripheral Drives. If you really need help, best place to ask politely in the Emulators forums on Lemon64.
Snake Eyes (c64) Commodore 64 Mac Os X
The Commodore 64 is arguably one of the best computers to hit the market back in the early ’80s, so much so that enthusiasts have been building clones of the great PC for decades. Most C64 clones rely on emulation to simulate its hardware, and while the emulation platforms are tried and true, it’s just not the same as using real electronics. Electrical engineer Gideon Zweijtzer is one of those enthusiasts, and he’s designed a replacement mainboard that’s a hardware implementation for the entire C64.
Snake Eyes (c64) Commodore 64 Mac Os Catalina
Gideon’s Ultimate-64 is FPGA-based, which implements the logic gates of the original C64, so there’s no need for emulation. The mainboard is similar in design to the C64 and offers much of the same I/Os as the original, including joystick ports, tape port, and user port, which isn’t in the original position but accessed through an onboard header. Those I/Os allow users to connect the original peripherals to the system, which offers native support.
The Ultimate-64 also houses an HDMI port, Ethernet port, and USB ports (one of them is internal) for use with modern hardware, and offers an updated audio system with 8-voice SID implementation, along with seven voices of sampled audio in 8 or 16-bit with up to a 48kHz sample rate. Gideon included some open slots for the original SID chips as well.
In addition, theUltimate-64 incorporates Gideon’s Ultimate-II+ platform, which mimics a pair of Commodore 1541 drives, and can accept the original cartridges or emulations. The Ultimate-II+ even features an internal speaker (outputs drive and floppy sounds), a 100Mbps Ethernet port, battery-backed RTC, dual SID implementation (8X voices each), FAT/FAT32 support, and more. The Ultimate-64 is currently available for pre-order for about $244 and has an expected delivery date at some point in Q3 of this year. The Ultimate-II+ is already available for those that just need a cartridge adapter/emulator for approximately $138.