I've just got a C64C and rather than getting loads of tapes and then waiting for the damn things to load I want to use a more modern method. Which of the following can anyone recommend?
IDE64
MMC64/Replay
1541U
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I've just got a C64C and rather than getting loads of tapes and then waiting for the damn things to load I want to use a more modern method. Which of the following can anyone recommend?
IDE64
MMC64/Replay
1541U
Demon Cleaner is the man to ask about this as I think he recently purchased a memory card unit for the C64.
Also have a look at http://www.c64-wiki.com/index.php/SD2IEC.
I bought the 1541-III some time ago, and it's great. Have a look at Jan Derogee's homepage: http://jderogee.tripod.com/
The 1541 Ultimate is a bit expensive, and I wanted to get one some time ago, but eventually didn't, and finally ended up with a 1541-III.
Here's also an older thread at CA about it.
Are 1541-III's still about and can you use games that require multiple disks (i.e Knights Of Legend uses 4 double sided disks so there are 8 disk images + a character disk)?
Also Whilst I'm trying to decide and saving could anyone do me a tape with some games on (especially Elite)? PM me if you can please.
I've been with a Spanish friend and he has a MMC64 (now MMC replay) and works really well. Easy to set up and use. And he also had a MP3@64 and he played Mp3 from the c64 and was quite amazing has the sound of that thing is really good! :)
You use the 1541-III just like a normal floppy, if you need to swap the disk, you do it in the GUI of the device. The .d64 files are stored on the SD card.Quote:
Originally Posted by Buleste
I'm not stupid. I know that the d64 files are stored on the SD card. When I'm on about multiple disks I mean games with multiple disk images as I know that some SD devices have had compatibility problems with multiload games and others have a limit on the number of disk images that can be mounted.
However as 1541-III is no longer in production there's no point in me looking for one for a reasonable price.
Also as there is no MMC64/Replay or SD2IEC in stock or available no point in me looking at them either. Looks like I'm saving up for a 1541U and hope they become available for reorder.
There are some good things about loading C64 games from tape:
- Making a cup of tea
- Listening to the loading music
- Making music (Thalamus' Mix-E-Loads)
- Some tape loaders let you play space invaders
- Having time to daydream
On the other hand, I've got Pirates! on tape. My god, you could prepare and eat a three-course meal waiting for that to load. Excruciating.
The fun part was when it was delivered there was already a tape in the datasette so I plugged everything in, crossed my fingers that nothing blew up, pressed SHIFT RUN/STOP (god how I missed that), pressed play, went out walked the cat and when I came back several minutes later........ the game had failed to load as the tape heads were dirty. How I missed that feeling of anticipation only to be let down in the end.
I cleaned the tape machine and loaded the tape and I was disappointed to learn it was Out Run. A truly awful conversion.
Ha! Outrun was truly dire. The Spectrum version was better.
Anyway, you didn't really expect a 20 year-old tape deck to have clean heads, did you?
In a moment of shopping madness I bought a MMC replay. I got it yesterday and have been trying it. So far I have to say I'm saving up for a 1541U.
You can't play games that are on multiple disks and multiload games don't always work. On top of that as far as I can tell the Action Replay software side of things is completely separate from the MMC side so that if you load a game via MMC you cannot then use the Replay software to poke it and if you use the Replay you cannot load anything from the MMC. All in all a very limited use product that is highly flawed.
Scratch that I'm not going to get a 1541U as they have a similar problem. I'm going to get myself a 1541 or 1541-II, shit loads of real floppies and transfer any multiload .D64's to floppy. It's cheaper and will probably work.
wow if the spectrum version is better that game must be truly dire.Quote:
Originally Posted by Cortona
It's worse than that.Quote:
Originally Posted by 1980-20..wow if the spectrum version is better that game must be truly dire.Quote:
Originally Posted by Cortona
For anyone who's interested here's a logo I created for the cartridge case of the MMC Replay.
http://i36.tinypic.com/rw6sjp.jpg
just print it off, cut it out and stick it on to make your MMC Replay look a little smarter.