cimerians Posted July 10, 2004 Share Posted July 10, 2004 Anybody out there can give me some good C64 sites? I know Lemon64 is pretty good but any others like it? I'm mainly looking for a good message board and other goodies.... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Breakpack Posted July 10, 2004 Share Posted July 10, 2004 www.c64.com Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mayhem Posted July 10, 2004 Share Posted July 10, 2004 http://www.gamebase64.com (best source of games in general) http://www.mayhem64.co.uk (gotta plug my own site!) http://www.c64.cc (COCOS directory) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
oesii Posted July 11, 2004 Share Posted July 11, 2004 http://s64.emuunlim.com/ My favorite site, just like the layout and it's fun to find new sports games to try out. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Brad2600 Posted July 15, 2004 Share Posted July 15, 2004 A quick C64 question. I read somewhere that in order to load games from disk, you need to include the name of the game as part of the command. Is this true? I've tried another method which didn't work for me. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
carlsson Posted July 15, 2004 Share Posted July 15, 2004 Yes, you LOAD"FILE",8 (or other number, depending on which device number you disk has - most common with 8 for the first unit if you have several). Since the C64 doesn't have a DOS shell as per se, you stay inside Basic all the time and use the LOAD command. You also SAVE"FILE",8 to store it. Or more esoteric, VERIFY"FILE",8 to compare if the program in memory is identical to the one on disk. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mayhem Posted July 15, 2004 Share Posted July 15, 2004 The DOS system on the C64 is at least someway semi-intelligable too. You can use wildcarding for the file names too. LOAD"*",8,1 will load the first file on the disk. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MacbthPSW Posted July 15, 2004 Share Posted July 15, 2004 LOAD"*",8,1 will load the first file on the disk. Actually, it'll load the last file loaded since a reset/power-on - and if there hasn't been a last file - it'll load the first file on the disk, like you said. In the typical power-on, load a game type usage, this might seem like trivia (or nitpicking) but when you're checking out a number of files in one session, it actually matters. To be sure you're getting the first file, do: LOAD":*",8,1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Brad2600 Posted July 15, 2004 Share Posted July 15, 2004 Couldn't even type in "load" because my C64 keys wouldn't function when I pressed them. Hmm. Must need to be cleaned or something. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MacbthPSW Posted July 16, 2004 Share Posted July 16, 2004 Couldn't even type in "load" because my C64 keys wouldn't function when I pressed them. Hmm. Must need to be cleaned or something. Unplug your joysticks, disk drives and anything else from the C64, except the power cable and video cable. Does the keyboard still not work? It's unlikely that your keyboard could be so dirty that *no* keys will work. It could either be a chip gone, or maybe somebody's been inside it and unplugged the keyboard cable internally? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sku_u Posted July 16, 2004 Share Posted July 16, 2004 I'm surprised no one's mentioned this site yet: www.lemon64.com Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MacbthPSW Posted July 16, 2004 Share Posted July 16, 2004 I'm surprised no one's mentioned this site yet: www.lemon64.com Probably because the original author of the thread said I know Lemon64 is pretty good but any others like it? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
carlsson Posted July 19, 2004 Share Posted July 19, 2004 To nitpick further, the poster might have one of the rather uncommon dual disk drives, and thus should use LOAD"0:*",8 to ensure the first file from the first disk drive. Or not? I've never used one of those, but I presume it is how it works. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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