TheC64 "Maxi" Q&A, VIC-20 Mode, Programming & More

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We take another in-depth look at the full-size TheC64 "Maxi", answering your questions, comparing the compatibility, trying VIC-20 mode, and running a modern PAL demo on both The C64 and a real PAL Commodore 64.
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Links:
Commodore4ever: • The C64. My thoughts.
GEOS plain disk image: www.lyonlabs.org/commodore/on...
Cynthcart: www.qotile.net/cynthcart.html
Old Men In Used Cars by Fossil: csdb.dk/release/?id=170944
Downloads:
VIC boot RAM config files: 8BitShowAndTell.com/prg/vicbo...
Download VIC-Splatform: 8BitShowAndTell.com/prg/vic-s...
Download Scott Adams VIC-20 games: 8BitShowAndTell.com/prg/scott...
Launch any of the 5 Scott Adams games, then at the BASIC prompt: SYS32592
Episodes I referred to:
C64 Quirks & Bugs: • Commodore 64 Quirks, B...
C64 Benchmark by Guitar Tuner 1: • Benchmark By Guitar Tu...
C64 Benchmark by Guitar Tuner 2: • Even More Commodore 64...
VIC-20 Tiny Text Adventure: • Tiny Text Adventure: F...
VIC-20 Super Expander: • VIC-20 Super Expander:...
VIC-20 Realms of Quest V: • Realms of Quest V: The...
Index
0:00 Intro, packaging, smell, swappable keys, US launch date and price
2:45 Boot time
3:38 The Incredible Musical Keyboard - Cynthcart
5:10 REU hack in save state
6:32 How about GEOS?
8:34 Mouse emulation?
9:19 Does TheC64 duplicate real C64 bugs/quirks?
11:25 Do USB modems, printers etc. work? No.
11:58 2 joystick support?
13:53 About the configuration flags _J1J2AD etc.
14:30 Warp mode? No, but fast disk access
15:05 BASIC optimizations - guitar tuner
16:11 C64 to VIC-20 cross assembly?
19:28 Carousel Mode - the two VIC-20 programs included
20:48 VIC boot RAM expansions - and strange behaviour
25:18 VIC-Splatform
26:58 Tiny Text Adventure
27:48 Realms of Quest V
28:42 Super Expander cartridge, BASIC programming
29:59 Why only C64 and VIC-20 mode, why not C16, C128, PET, etc.?
32:13 Thanks to my Patrons!
32:20 Some info about
33:17 Old Men In Used Cars demo - real PAL C64 vs. TheC64

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@bobbobbity463 4 года назад

Watching these videos just makes me want to pop over to Robin's place for a cup of tea and a bout of gaming. But then I remember I live in Europe and Robin doesn't know me.

@3DMegadoodoo Год назад

I did that once but he burst into the kitchen, screamed "WHO ARE YOU WHAT ARE YOU DOING HERE HOW DID YOU GET IN IT'S THREE IN THE MORNING IS THAT MY TEA!?!?" and called the police.

@rossdtool 4 года назад

Imagine if that Demo at the end of the video had been playing on the C64s in the shops in '82 when it first came out.

@mikaelbohlinoja 4 года назад

It's funny how many 5 number POKE codes you knew when you owned a C64 :D, like telephone numbers no one remembers nowadays :)

@kenknight5983 4 года назад

You're the Splatform guy! My brother and I are writing a c64 games guide for 1990 - 2010

@8_Bit 4 года назад

Neat idea, so many undiscovered games from that middle era!

@SamM-oh2cx 4 года назад

I could live a million life times and I’d never tire listening and learning from you. You have a real gift. Thanks for sharing!

@greggregson9687 4 года назад

Awesome video. Just to answer some of the people here; Bob Yannes, the creator of the VICII chip for the C64, said himself that colours differ from C64 to C64 because of the different tolerances in the chips, Chroma and Luma saturation, and so on. So, there is NO 'official' perfect colour saturation for the C64. I myself still remember different looks among the machines my friends and I had. I won't even go into how different even SID chips from the same serial number machines sounded, let along earlier and later variants of C64s. Then you have each seperate Monitor/TV looking slightly different to each other. Then you have PAL/NTSC...the way electronics were made back then, perhaps even the weather affected it!

@eightbit1975 4 года назад

Thank you for the VIC RAM files! These will help when I finally receive my TheC64. Not many people covering the VIC-20 side. Much appreciated!

@XalphYT 4 года назад

Fascinating video. I was transfixed from start to finished.

@leebirkett244 2 года назад

I have just recently added a Commodore 64 to my Console Collection. I find these videos very informative, and help me understand the basics of this machine.

@simber71 4 года назад

I stumbled upon your video and 8 bit guy on the C64 and boy does this take me back to my childhood and for years wanting to fire up my original on modern televisions. I'm in the UK and started with a ZX81 before a VIC 20 but never had the original C64 so this is also a childhood dream and blast from the past. Thankyou for covering this on RU-vid and on the back of this I have ordered one in the UK. Now I just have to visit my parents and go through all my childhood stuff from the 1980s to get all the old manuals and magazines :) Keep up the good work

@MrRickyc4 4 года назад

Did you get your C64 yet.

@pawewawrzyniak8020 2 года назад

This was very helpful for me and my TheC64. Thank you very much - your channel is great! :-)

@rossdtool 4 года назад

I can still remember the smell of the c64 my friend got in 1983 when we were 9 years old. It was the best thing I had ever seen and smelled. Luckily my family got one a few months later. The floppy disks also had a really specific smell when we got a 1541.

@BastiaanvandeWerk 4 года назад

Ross2d-2 for me it’s the smell of the colecovision!

@NeilRoy 4 года назад

That's a really sweet system! I loved watching GEOS draw the screen. :) I miss the C64 days, they were such a blast. I used to amaze people who never seen one back then at what it could do, especially the sound out of it.

@seancurtin5131 2 года назад

Very nice overview and demos. Thank you for sharing.

@twofour8127 4 года назад

Your videos are extremely interesting and you know your stuff. Thank you Robin.

@CommodoreComputerMuseum 4 года назад

Another great video Robin, you continue to impress, keep them coming.

@TheTonyMellonChannel 4 года назад

Super helpful video, as always, thank so much!

@doktor6495 4 года назад

Great video again! The demo is amazing! Greetings and Happy New Year to all! Doc64!

@AndyHewco 4 года назад

Great video. And thanks for creating the boot program on the Vic configured disks, saves that unpleasant error. Hopefully a future firmware update will give us a menu to set the default memory configuration to use if the flags are absent or not used.

@esshahn 4 года назад

thank you for the side by side demo comparison!

@DerRobert28 3 года назад

25:18 I downloaded your little game "Splashform", and it is very cool and challenging. Nice job!

@briancannard7335 2 года назад

Thank you for doing all of this!

@pb7379-j2k 4 года назад

Great couple videos, really excellent. I’m going to have to get one I think

@tym0tym 4 года назад

Demo starting at 33:17 is awesome.

@10MARC 4 года назад

Great video, Robin. Thanks for all the exploration of the VIC-20 mode. I suspect that enabling an REU mode on the C64 will become standard in the future, as it seems that the system can handle it just fine. Now if they just enable 1351 Mouse mode that would make a really useful GEOS machine!

@hansoak3664 4 года назад

Another excellent video. Thanks!

@TheJanDahl 3 года назад

I am loving your indices :-)

@Zion767318 4 года назад

If I had seen that demo back in the day, my mind would would have surely exploded! :)

@sebastianstark8517 4 года назад

This was awesome! Thanks for the video. Can't wait until this comes out in the USA.

@EpicTyphlosionTV 4 года назад

I don't care what it takes, I'm getting this when it comes out in the USA!

@rossdtool 4 года назад

It's an awesome thing, I have a 3 metre HDMI connected to my bedroom tv and a 5 mtr one in the lounge room. Because all the games load from a usb it's so much more portable than an original one with a disk drive.

@maxxdahl6062 4 года назад

Still isn't out in the USA. I got tired of waiting and just bought a mini instead.

@cjallday1130plays 3 года назад

@@maxxdahl6062 should have waited a tad longer. It's coming out November 5 in the US and is available for preorder on Amazon

@maxxdahl6062 3 года назад

@@cjallday1130plays Meh, more than 6 months. I'm good. lol

@ncurtis1970 2 года назад

Re: TED and PET emulation, I think the keyboard situation could be sort of over come if they allows you to plug in a USB keyboard. My TheVIC20 only came out of its box once as i have real VIC,64 and +4, I do like it but I love the real thing(s) more. Thank you Robin, you youtubes often inspire me,

@kooziesan 4 года назад

These videos are amazing. I can't wait to find a NA supplier for TheC64

@meneerjansen00 4 года назад

I love those classic "command line hacks" you do. Could you make a video on just those? For us simple folk that bought a C64 to catch up on their technical skills after 35 years? I wanna impress my friends from back in the day who knew some of those. They impressed me with magic tricks on the C64 when I was 15, now I'm 50 and I wanna impress them. Exploring the inner workings of the C64 with _'poke'_ and _'sys'_ commands is fascinating! I'd also kill for a video explaining how that GUI OS version worked back in the day (one needed an expansion cart? or a hard disk?) and how to get it working on the C64 Full Size with a cart image.

@RacerX- 4 года назад

Great video! I like the comparison at the end of the Vid. The real 64 looks much more colorful. And oh the emulated SID needs a bit of tweaking. It would be nice if they added some flags for the SID, IE for 8580 and 6581, etc.

@thebaldconvict 2 года назад

Nice video! And for the bit at the end, I would love it if they would use black plastic and new key caps and do a C16 with a Plus/4 mode in it.

@amerigocosta7452 4 года назад

This looks like a solid option. The colour palette could use some tweaks anyways, as shown by the demo running on a real PAL Commodore.

@kylehill3643 2 года назад

See it is a MICRO computer made for the average user. You didn't need to know much to operate it just basic loading commands or if you have the hard drive skip that all together which is what we did. It booted into BASIC and you could program right away or run something. Commodore was for the power of the people and insanely cheap compared to it's competitors the IBM and Apple II I believe it was.

@kylehill3643 2 года назад

Comomdore offered a lot of fun educational opportunities compared to even the IBM or PC and especially the NES which was in no way educational. The few educational titles it had were CRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRAAAAAAAAAAAAAAP!

@kentwood9821 Год назад

Your game looks amazing, very impressive.

@tenminutetokyo2643 4 года назад

VIC-20 was awesome......

@paultucker3143 3 года назад

Ah, I see. Early column in the magazine. That article was for the VIC. Have to wait a couple months to get the Maxi

@thrillhausen8858 4 года назад

Loving mine, been playing roms on it👌😊

@lordevyl8317 4 года назад

roms only apply to CARTRIDGE images

@txtworld 4 года назад

Hi Robin, your videos are refreshing in their detail (they're SO informative), complemented by your warm, welcoming narrative presence. A question, are the SIMONS BASIC commands faithfully replicated on TheC64, when this cartridge image is loaded?

@wisteela 4 года назад

It really is impressive, and that VIC-20 mode is an awesome extra.

@classicnosh 3 года назад

I bought one! It's arriving this Monday (3/22/2021)!

@gamingtonight1526 3 года назад

I think the scratchy sounds on The C64 sound more in fitting than the original 64! :)

@jasonl5382 Год назад

Hey, that's cool!!.... Watching the demo at the end with them side by side creates a 3D effect when you train your eyes to meld them into one.... Stereoscopic 3D!! :)

@be236 4 года назад

Cool.. I'm tempted to get this when it comes to "the states."

@zycoxlp6465 3 года назад

And we in Europe get TheVic20 by the time y'all get the TheC64 XD

@MrKeys57 4 года назад

C64 reborn! wow! i never had it, i had the Vic20, and then jumped to the C128, nice little game you wrote for the V20! -- this new one is not available here in sweden, not yet anyway, i have to think about it! - i am afraid i will be totally "lost in space" if i get it though! lol! - thanks for nice demo, Levi

@JudgeDrokk 4 года назад

VIC SPLATFORM - Sprites by Vanja UTNE ! - I love the work of VANJA/Mermaid. Her new comic book "GROK & GROK part 2" is brilliant! I used to speak with her lots.

@00Skyfox 4 года назад

Speaking of SYS 64738 (11:18), I recently found out about a similar command SYS 64760 which does an instant reset instead of the 1 to 2 second reset. If you haven’t talked about that one before, could you cover it in a future video?

@t3chnod3lic 4 года назад

Those words at the end of the demo (to come up behind you again etc) are from 'Time' on Pink Floyd's 'Dark Side of the Moon' album.. Cool.

@SuperFriendBFG 4 года назад

TheC64 is a really good piece of kit. It's a great way to do C64 Development work without having to stress your older hardware such as disk drives. You can tell the engineers and programmers behind this are actual fans of the real Commodore 64. I look forward to what the future holds for this machine. Not just from the manufacturer, but also the community. I would definitely love to see a software update, or perhaps even hardware expansion that make most USB peripherals compatible, including floppy drives, mice, keyboards and the like.

@TuffyDK 4 года назад

I got mine here in Denmark, and I FREAKING love it... DAmn its good to be back at the C64. I sold the original in the days, so I could buy an Amiga 500.. TheC64 cost me around $149

@fedepede04 4 года назад

i order mine late October from Elgiganten, but i first got it a couple of days ago. but at least i got it to a good price 599 Dkr :D

@Dorff_Meister 3 года назад

Late November 2020. I got mine from Amazon in Austin, TX last week.

@jonvincentmusic 4 года назад

Awesome in depth review. Thanks for sharing. Best wishes for the new year from your fans in the UK.

@mancavehobbies6213 4 года назад

Awesome SUBBED YAH DUDE

@00Skyfox 4 года назад

Forgot to ask, does TheC64 support a USB keyboard? If so, that could help it support C128 and PET mode. I modded a PC keyboard with C64 decals for the purpose of using Vice, so someone wanting a C128 or PET keyboard could do something similar.

@JGreen-le8xx 4 года назад

The only thing I would have liked extra to see on this machine, would have been a daughter board inside to hook up original peripherals and cartriges. So it literally could substitute for a C64 even if it is emulated.

@n4zou 4 года назад

Thanks for the information! I was wondering if it would work with a modem. I have an old HAL-Robot RTTY radio modem I used with an original C64. I still use it with a modern computer and a USB to TTL adapter to interface them. I would love to hook a new TheC64 to my old HAL modem. Perhaps that will happen in a future upgrade along with the addition of an emulated user hardware port. There's plenty of room inside that mostly empty case.

@Fahnder99 2 года назад

0s boot time was the reason why I always missed my c64 when working on the pc.

@KayoMichiels 4 года назад

oh man, that microswitched joystick makes a TON of difference!

@3DMegadoodoo Год назад

I keep one of these in the living room hooked up to a big LCD TV for on-the-couch playing, but about 100% of the time I use the one hooked up to a CRT in the spare room. Everything just looks so much nicer. I tried selling it off due to not seeing much use but Facebook Marketplace tagged it as an illegal streaming device so vOv

@paultucker3143 3 года назад

Starting to revisit BASIC through the Compute Gazette. Started with some simple tone generation such as poke 36878,12 but no sound . Have you run into errors with audio memory addresses?

@Chaos89P 4 года назад

Between this and what The 8-Bit Guy said, this is way more up my alley than the mini version, especially since it has more than I wanted. Shame that, as of writing this, there's no known release date for the U.S.

@ThomasDetertC64 4 года назад

I do hope we‘ll see a proper 8580r3 Emulation in one of the next updates as well. Most recent Demos make intensiv use of the filters, which can sound pretty crap on a 6581 😊 Anyways great Video 🤘

@Ikrananka 4 года назад

So is it a 6581 that they emulated? Do you know if there is any info online about the SID emulation on TheC64?

@StephenFinkNRP 4 года назад

I ordered one from Amazon Germany and just got my shipping notification. I'm thinking a week or so I should have one in the US. $121 us dollars isn't too bad.

@captainandrew016 3 года назад

If I can ask a question. You provided vic 20 disk images with the memory expansions already loaded; is there any way the memory expander could be a virtual cartridge? The c64 maxi has problems loading multiple disk images in the disk drive and I found this really cool 'software' for the vic 20 that needs a 16kb expansion. I'm just getting started learning all things commodore, and am not well versed at Basic yet (I plan to change that if the world doesn't end). Love your videos by the way, been going through them as I teach myself basic.

@BalduinOrgMusic 4 года назад

Would be cool if they add MegaCart rom support for the VIC-20.

@anjinmiura6708 3 года назад

Yeah the killer function for the next firmware update would have to be USB network adapter support where it provides ssh access (ssh and sftp) and local utilities for reading and writing disk image files (and others? tape? Cartridge?). And CX-Basic would just be amazing.

@LeftoverBeefcake 4 года назад

Not only should they use an original-ish box design for the North American release, but for extra authenticity they should make some machines with the orange-ish function keys. ;)

@3dtexan890 4 года назад

To correct you, it was over 6 MONTHS to get the MINI in USA retailers!

@pieterbosch87 4 года назад

Hi any idea how I get the joystick to work in Geos? Tried the J1 parameter but not working

@heidobito7924 3 года назад

1 Hi Robin, enjoying your videos very much and trying to learn assembly language now too! I've followed the instructions for the REU hack various times and once I was able to see the ram expansion but other times I tried it for some reason it now shows 0k and the test program wont run from $c000. Not sure if I messed up the machine or something. Any suggestions will be appreciated. Looking forward to more videos on assembly language for both the VIC20 and the C64!!

@wildbill23c 4 года назад

I'd be happy if they added printer support at least. Maybe some way to connect 2 of them together for playing games.

@simonbelmontxxx 3 года назад

this was a great video. I have a question.I know you mentioned you worked on the plug and play which is one of the most awesome plug-and-plays I own by the way. where can I get those secret mini games that were built into the plug and play commodore? you were playing one of them on your video the game with the smiley that was bouncing around. I remember there being a cliff diving game in a few others.

@8_Bit 3 года назад

Splatform: csdb.dk/release/?id=7183 Cliff Diving: csdb.dk/release/?id=7940 Minima Reloaded: csdb.dk/release/?id=159952 Tinyrinth: csdb.dk/release/?id=7949 Astrostorm: csdb.dk/release/?id=6516 dWCave: csdb.dk/release/?id=7947 I hope I remembered them all! :)

@simonbelmontxxx 3 года назад

@@8_Bit Wow! Thank you so much!

@fluffycritter 4 года назад

Wow, that whole disk-mount-tag thing seems really cumbersome. It's nice that they let you make the options persistent in some way but why didn't they just provide a menu for selecting the joystick options and then adding metadata to the end of the disk image or whatever? That's a shame about the lack of 1351 emulation but hopefully they'll add that at some point, as well as improving the UX around joystick stuff. I also understand the audio latency is still a bit high - not terrible, but could still be improved a bit.

@SergiuszRoszczyk 4 года назад

I guess they didn't want to make "*.pif" files mistake again ;). Flags are for user supplied files, maybe there is some kind of licensing limitation that they couldn't overcome? Like... "Ok, let users play their files but do it to look like side effect"

@brunoramone601 4 года назад

with the Vic 20 boot ram files how do I then load a game in when as you said it over rides the configurations ? especially 16k games with 2 disks

@hqqns 4 года назад

rename your disk images with the flags needed, is my guess.

@brunoramone601 4 года назад

@@hqqns yes was already doing that but very slow process why I was keen on these disk images with the set memory

@MonsieurMerci 4 года назад

Is there a way to change/force settings of the SID emulation on TheC64, as on the VICE (windows) version ?

@8_Bit 4 года назад

I'm not aware of any way to change from the 6581 to the 8580 emulation; hopefully they'll allow that in a firmware update.

@lsdowdle 4 года назад

Thanks for your coverage of TheC64 "Maxi". I'm very curious on your thoughts about the Commodore 64 (and variants) FPGA core provided as part of the MiSTer Project running on the Terasic DE10-Nano FPGA SBC. The Commodore 8-bit platform is one of more than 100 FPGA "cores" freely available from the Mister Project. I'm not sure if the Commodore "core" is cycle-accurate or not but it should be more accurate than software-based emulators. I'm wondering how the FPGA Commodore recreation compares to the software-based emulation products.

@8_Bit 4 года назад

I find the FPGA projects interesting and would review one if it showed up at my door someday, but I mainly just focus on the vintage hardware and occasionally software emulation when it suits.

@mcjedi2123 Год назад

Can you access the linux that VICE is running on? thru some keyboard combo? or via a simple HW hack? Is the OS on a replaceable micro SD card?

@20windfisch11 4 года назад

The wrong result of powers is because of floating point arithmetic. X^Y does EXP(Y*LOG(X)) which leads to rounding errors.

@elmariachi5133 4 года назад

That trick of using the filename for configuration really seems accomodating. Not only compared to Vice, but for example compared to WinUAE with it's super horrible, confusing configuration split in multiple parts, that no one knows how they seperate and go together.

@dougjohnson4266 3 года назад

Looking forward to the MEGA65 if it ever arrives. The C64 Maxi sold out upon the N.A. release,

@dr.ignacioglez.9677 2 года назад

I REALLY LOVE C64 👍🥂🎩

@ReBITMAGAZINE 3 года назад

Sorry, but after loaded example vic boot 24k.d64, and change D64 with another disk, when I type LOAD "$",8, the Vic20 give file not found.

@bg45420 4 года назад

Nice video. What's the toggle switch on the side of your VIC?

@Okurka. 4 года назад

ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-PUsYNwISNNs.html

@8_Bit 4 года назад

Yeah, that's a JiffyDOS switch. I was a beta tester for the VIC-20 version years ago, and that's the VIC I installed it in. Okurka linked to the episode where I talk about it briefly.

@NoX-512 4 года назад

It would be so cool with a TheC128 Maxi 👻 And a “max speed” option would make theC64 much more fun to play with. Imagine a 6510 running at 5GHz !!!

@Okurka. 4 года назад

Imagine emulating a 6510 at 5GHz on a 1.5GHz Rockchip.

@NoX-512 4 года назад

Okurka - LOL. I was imagining a *real* 6510 @ 5GHz, made on a 5 nm process. The W65C816S would be even more fun.

@JudgeDrokk 4 года назад

So... #THEC64 plays CRT images in #VIC20 mode... but how to get it to run the "MEGACART" image... (it's 2 megabytes) - it executes but goes right into a game (Tooth Invaders) and bypasses the menu system. The image runs in VICE but has an individual option to do so I think?

@richardpowell8198 3 года назад

Great video , but is there any chance theres a PENULTIMATE+ CARTRIDGE VIC20 rom file to run in the vic20 mode.....

@ricpan1745 4 года назад

Thank you very much! I was a former happy C64 kid and now I'm a happy new owner of TheC64 Maxi and I really appreciate your videos, especially the TMP assembler bits for lazy people ;-). A question that came into my mind very quickly is: may I be able to communicate with my Arduino or my RaspberryPi? This would bring together my old and new worlds...! I just can't think of an easy way to do it, perhaps over RS-232 port 2 on the commodore side and Serial interface on the Arduino or Raspberry side, i.e. just with an USB cable? Maybe you have an idea about this? Thank again!!

@csbruce 4 года назад

1:33 You might need to jump into a time machine and smell an original C64 when it was new. 3:20 How long does the original C64 take to boot to BASIC? 9:00 Does VICE emulate the 1351 mouse? 12:25 Can you do things like change the standard ROM to make the default cursor color white? 15:58 If I enter 0 POKEV,A:POKEV,.:GOTO ⏎ 10 V=36878:A=15:GOTO ⏎ on the NTSC VIC-20 in VICE, I get 246 Hz, since the VIC-I chip doesn't steal clock cycles from the processor. 33:19 The aspect ratio of each C64 display is about 1.5 instead of the standard 1.33. 37:47 The lyrics are seeming a little bit "copyrighted".

@8_Bit 4 года назад

An original C64 takes slightly over 2 seconds to boot, mostly because of the RAM check that's done. Some common utility cartridges skip it, and so the boot is nearly instant. Yes, VICE emulates the 1351, it's something that can be toggled on and off. So likely TheC64 could implement it if they can provide a fairly universal mouse driver. I don't know of any way of changing the KERNAL/BASIC ROMs on TheC64, but I could probably customize a Fast Load or Super Snapshot cartridge image to change the default cursor colour. It's funny how fast the VIC-20 can seem compared to the C64. No bad lines gives a bit of a CPU boost, and then having way fewer bytes to shuffle around on screen makes some games run very fast. Of course, if a VIC-20 game needs smooth scrolling or to simulate smooth sprite movement, then it needs all the help it can get.

@accsessence 3 года назад

Hi, can I plug a midi keyboard into the usb port and use the music programs on the commodore 64?

@8_Bit 3 года назад

Unfortunately, no, it doesn't have that functionality.

@MrMaxeemum 4 года назад

I was surprised at the demo comparison, I initially thought the max was on the left and the real C64 was on the right (didn't see the text on the screen at the start) as the were lines in the video and the colors were washed out. But then the menu came up on the right which means that was the Max. So the new machine has worse video output. Is this truly representative of the video output or is it due to your capture setup? I could not tell the difference between them with the sound though.

@FishcatGames 2 года назад

fingers crossed for a re released

@steiniapproved 4 года назад

In my experience, you don't have to add _J1J2. Joysticks are getting assigned when the mounted medium changes. So if you go into file browser and mount an empty disc and leave the media access dialog, the joystick with which you do this gets port 2, the other gets port 1. If you access the media access dialog, unmount and leave the dialog, the same. Only if you change the medium to the same like before being in that dialog, nothing gets reassigned (like unmounting and remounting the same image without leaving the dialog in between). I did lots of tests concerning this topic. If you attach a third joystick, things get really complicated until reboot of TheC64 :-) Edit: _J1 or _J2 just state which port gets assigned to the joystick changing the media (defaults to port 2 like said above). With _J1 its the other way around.

@JanEspen 4 года назад

Yes I think you are correct. Autostart a d64 with the nr 2 button on thec64 joystick makes that stick port 2, however mounting just by using thec64 keyboard (B) seems to mess things up, making thec64 joystick still mandatory to use. I have tested with 1 thec64 joystick and 1 speedlink competition pro. This is all when using Basic which is my preferred "retro" choice over the carousel. Hope they'll fix that in an upcoming firmware.

@CartridgeGamert 4 года назад

How / is it possible to load REU files? Thank you for your videos they are in somemutch depth it brings the computer to a whole next level!

@eightbit1975 4 года назад

Now that I have my TheC64 full sized model I have been playing around with the VIC-20 side of things. But, I do have a question that maybe you can answer. I have these .d64 images that are "loaders" that contain various VIC-20 games. Basically, load the .d64 (with the proper vic flags such as model and banks needed) and it loads a menu of cart based games. Most work fine, but a few actually require you to "reset" the computer to launch them after they have been loaded into ram. But not a hard reset, a soft reset. So, when I use these on my real VIC-20 machine I am able to use a soft reset cartridge that I have in the userport that allows the game in question to start. With this machine however, the game is "waiting" to start, but I see no actual way of soft resetting the machine to allow that to happen. The only function is a hard reset which of course resets the machine. I know there is a sys command for soft reset, but this cannot be entered as the software is already running. What a dilemma!

@SteveGuidi 4 года назад

Anyone remember the Unix-like shell for the C64/C128 (Ace64/128)? Just noticed that author is one of the channel's Patreon supporters :)

@JustWasted3HoursHere 4 года назад

Real C64 ports on this thing would be the best case scenario. Still, it seems to be a nice and well thought out system.

@mato5758 4 года назад

I picked mine up here in Australia just before Christmas, and have 2 questions... Should be able to plug into computer monitor using hdmi to dvi plug, but how would we get sound? And I know USB stick etc to put games on, but I'd love to get a 1541 and 5 1/4floppies for the nostalgic memories... is there any way that would be possible? (adapter of some kind?) Thanks

@8_Bit 4 года назад

Search for "hdmi audio splitter" or "hdmi audio extractor" for a device that'll separate the hdmi audio so you can plug it into speakers. Unfortunately there's no way to hook an external floppy drive up to TheC64 currently. There's a device called a ZoomFloppy that provides a USB->IEC (1541) connector that you can hook up to PC/Mac. It's possible TheC64 could support it with a firmware update but it seems unlikely they'll do it.

@Lachlant1984 2 года назад

As of firmware version 1.6.1 mouse emulation has been added, but I've not really tried it out because I don't have GEOS on my unit, though I may try and download it if I can. I have messed about a bit with GEOS on an original C64C.