Commodore 128 with SuperCPU playing Test Drive 

I like how the driving animation is done by calculating speed and time between frames to get the distance traveled, rather than updating each frame based on absolute clock cycles that passed (ie. the very fast car animation during the title screens). I wonder what the supercpu would do for Flight Simulator II.

Wow, so that is how this absolutely frustrating game should've been like. I'm still having nightmares of those steep curves with the original framerate.

The slogan of my childhood: Load "*",8,1

Those were times...Mid and late 80's...You can go to lunch,watch some tv on some old-school tv-box who weights 50 kg. and then you can back at your room full with high-tech spec gear like this C-128 ....hehe

I loved this game on my C64. Test Drive II was really nice for the C64 with the scenery disks and car disk extras you could get. When I got a PC one of the first games I got for it was Test Drive III, which was in 3D and quite nice. I remember showing someone who had an IBM at the time Test Drive on the C64 and they were quite surprised at the sound and music the C64 had compared to their beeps at the time.

Wow , Test Drive on Commodore 64... brings back some memories...

Wow, what great memories...I had, played the Heck out of this one, back in the day!

Not sure you'll still be making these vids - but Stunt Car Racer would be incredible with your SuperCPU I bet!

Impressive performance! Very smooth. Looks great!

When I posted my comment, I was correct. Winvice getting SuperCPU 64 support is a real shocker! I hope SuperCPu 128 support is added eventually!

Looking for other demos of SuperCPU in games, thanks for this, actually quite playable at this speed

@doritostheking In the "Rise and fall" book the engineers say that they initially put a high speed line for the diskdrive in the c64, but it didn't get in. And the drive was utterly slowed down with the vic 20 compability.

I used to go to the toilet when the game was loading back then.

You can see the vertical lines and the "noise" in the whole video (especially visible at the BASIC screen), no emulator do this; it is definetly a digitalized RF signal.

@xadam2dudex Yep. Those plugged into the cartridge slot and took over the serial/floppy port. Most common one was called the "Epyx FastLoad".

Loved this game on the 64!

Yes, a real C128. To be specific it was a Commodore 128D modified into a tower case.

I remember very well getting a maximum score of 40040 points on the first level of this game with the Countach. And that was on a PC with like 10 Mhz and 2 colours, green and black. Good old times :)

Holy cow, this is Amiga-smooth... o_0

Because of new SID, digitized sounds are less audible. So i confirm, this is real c128.

Wow, I remember this game on my 888-xt turbo pc. Same game play, but it only had 4 colors. pink, blue, white and black from what I remember... Yes, we played it all day!

The Super CPU is a tough one to find in any flea market and thrift store. This is as if finding a needle in the haystack as an example reference.

This is a 128 in 64 compatability mode. There were programs for the 128 mode, but very few games. Beyond Zork and Last V8 come to mind for games, but really very few. The 128 shinned in productivity software both native and CP/M mode.

It's a shame that almost none of the games which could benefit from a faster CPU had internal timing that would allow them to run properly at the faster speed. Most of them become unplayable.

Now is test drive playable :D

Very good, lad. I hope that Ben Heck could use this C64 SuperCPU part mod for the C64 laptop as something new.

I love the sound of this, the "quiet" parts, that machinery in the intro! Sound awesome

Do you have a video of running Test Drive 2? That was the one that I remember loving so much, more diverse than this one, a worthy successor and fairly well programmed.

Super smooth gameplay! You should test the Revs on it :)

Runs very smooth. Impressive.

yhese was the games in my childhood now look what kids have lol

Huge fan of the game and most of Accolade's stuff at the time. Amazing to see a good framerate off this game.

What keeps it from going too fast? Does the game use the screen or RTC? We see this effect on early PC games that simply run as fast as the machine can run it and hence we need slow down software or cycle reductions in dosbox. While games made after the first 286 came out didn't run flat out, the C64 was always the C64 and nobody would ever have forseen a 20mhz cpu upgrade and would just run as fast as it can. So what prevents this?

Holly shit! I have been looking for the name of this game for years and i finally got it off this video! I use to play this on my old IBM MS-DoS 3.1 computer. Thanks for the upload!

The good old days.

Simply wonderful! ❤ Does Test Drive II have the same benefit?

No! It was a 3rd party hardware made by CMD (Creative Micro Devices) back in the 1990s.

Cool.... I had Commodore 64s and 128s when I was a kid...

good old times.... no fucking blue screen smilleeee...And in some years we have the same sound - with electric cars :(

I had it on my MS-DOS computer

Cool, it even got higher framerate without messing up the gameplay/timers.

It is vastly improved, but still unplayable. That is just a very poorly designed game :-( Check my other videos to see for yourself.

But the supercpu can't solve the problem of non functioning overlapping keys, still can't steer and accelerate at the same time

Nice! Wonder how "Hard Drivin'" would do?

@Mau1wurf1977 The disk drive is so slow because the chip running the port it's plugged in to doesn't work. Rather than delay the machine a few months to design a new chip, commodore just wrote some code to do the same job instead. If the chip worked, it'd be about five times faster.

I was wondering if it can run Crysis...

This is why we need self-driving cars

@xadam2dudex Well, that's the thing... Commodore didn't want to spend the money. To fix the problem would have needed a new chip design. Commodore would never spend money when a product still sold. Atari did the exact same thing about 7 years later. Only enough retailers complained that they fixed the chips for newer versions. I guess Jack Tramiel never learned.

Well running in "warp" mode in VIce on a circa 2012 system is so fast, it's unplayable lol. I only use an emulator with certain games that are too hard to read on my little 5" SX-64 screen.

OK now play the Porsche because it's not about the speed, it's about the grip!

Played this in school on a ibm. It was even worse then the c64. Ah .. good old days

I REALY LOVE MY C64 ❤❤❤❤ FOREVER ❤❤❤❤❤

Had no idea there was such a thing back in the days. Made this game a lot better.

very nice to see your super CPU in action :D I used to play a lot this game, really amazing to see it here boosted.

Check my other videos for Hard Driving. The gfx is improved but the controls are still total garbage. There is a slightly modified version of Flight Simulator that works, but I was never into flight sims. IIRC there is a modified version of Elite 128 that works too.

20Mhz compared to1Mhz of a stock C64.

Have you tried any 3D games like Hard Driving (which was so slow), Stunt car racer or some flight sims?

I feel the need!

There is no emulator for a SuperCPU.

Aveva una colonna sonora fantastica

Amazing frame rate! I still ocassionally play this from an original floppy on my C=64, and it runs at about 4 fps... or maybe closer to a frame every 4 seconds!

hell of a lot better than on the Leading Edge.

The best part of these games were the boxes!

Great soundtrack

Nice! I played a lot of this game on a Commodore PC40-III, an 80286 IBM compatible. CGA graphics and PC speaker!

Un gran ordenador de la década de los 80 👍

That's awesome! You seem to know your stuff. Are there ways to improve disk access on a real C64? In particular for the Game Maniac Mansion and Zak McKracken. Or are there adapters to load the game from a CF or SD card and things like that? I always wondered why the disk drive was so slow compared to the PC and Amiga.

wtf...this game looks fantastic killer frame rate.....whats the super cpu clock speed and 16mb whoa!!

Accolade..? Oh god, why couldn't they have been happy with Test Drive and NOT make Bubsy... T_T

Too bad SuperCPU128 emulators don't exist yet D:

well, it wasnt really available 'back in the days'.. :) the supercpu was released in 1996.. I think?

Oddly it looks about equal with Test Drive 2: The Duel on the Megadrive :s

oh god why its like test drive 3 all over again! so if im guessing its the same way with really old PC games as well. the game's limit is the superCPU limit IE running balls out. i bet if you played marble madness you'd get the same effect but it would render it unplayable D: it has its good points and drawbacks. racing games obviously gained the most. i love it

I'm struggling to understand what it is about this game's programming that can allow the frame rate to increase, rather than just the speed of time progression

I think what you're looking for might be Accolade Comics: Steve Keen - Private Spy ;).

Good old BASIC! 😁👌

wew it's sluggish on your emulator, but I remember that game on the C128, it was a must!

I'd lose my shit if I had this back in the day 🤓

Such a hard game to play. There didn’t really appear to be a put-put, I’m new to computer games mode.... just jump in your Testa Rossa and hug the cliffs....

What's up with the shifter disappearing between shifts?

Atari with rapidus runs zx spectrum software what about super cpu?

Nice video!!! Do all Commodore 128's have the SuperCPU installed??

Wow, somebody actually ported a game, well, a PROGRAM, to the C=28? The only thing I ever used on it was SpeedScript. That was $300 flushed down the drain.

We had it bad in those days :-(

The game that made me a Lotus fanboy :D

To think cell phones do much more than that today is crazy.

It's still impossible to play it without driving like a drunken maniac in a Yugo.

I wish someone made a game like this but each level has more traffic and congestion, about level 18 or so you are just stuck in traffic😂.

Skip to 2:51.

Its playable now

Yes, I used to be for may years.

Well, that's smooth...

i am looking for the title of a com64 game featuring a spy and a comic book dragnet or something

Amazing

Winvice 2.4.0 and up now do emulate SuperCPU. I'm running some SuperCPU stuff right now on my PC. The special executable is xspcu64.exe. Get version 2.4.3, just came out today (March first 2013).

Bzzt wrong, but thanks for playing! Google "SuperCPU 128" and check back in.

wow, its better than burnout ;)

you sir, are a legend

Actual driving: 2:50 and 5:25

I have a 5 and a quarter inch floppuy drive in my windows 7 64 bit machine and when i did a speed test it did about 11KB/s