Commodore 64 Music

[cbroddy]

This is the first time listening to Commodore 64 Music and I am very impressed with the sound quality. Many of the tunes are very good.

When I was younger, I played quite a few arcade and action games on our IBM with the PC Speaker which consisted of a couple of bleeps and bloops.
We did upgrade to a game card later but it doesn't match the sound capabilities of the Commodore 64.

I might think of picking up a Commodore 64 and some Commodore games in the future.

[Mayhem]

Or if you just want the music you can do the following...

Download Sidplay2/w from here: http://www.d.kth.se/~d93-alo/c64/spw/

Download the High Voltage SID Collection from here: http://www.hvsc.c64.org/

Run Sidplay and load any SID you want, just about every one every made is in the collection currently (near 20,000!)

[Raedon]

Commodore 64 collecting is a lot of fun but sadly most of the hardware is very beat up out there. Ebay is a real dumping ground for semi-broken C64 hardware. Your best bet is a C128 and 1571 as most C128's sold went to an older croud and they just have a better build quality that doesn't fail after 15 years.

Unfortunatly, you won't find much C64 stuff in the wild anymore. I've only run into 1 VIC20 2 C64's and 1 C128 in the last year. None of them had any drives with them. One of the C64's was out on the curb with some garbage which says where a lot of the hardware went.

[gamergary]

The ftp page doesn't load so how can one download the collection?

[SoulBlazer]

OLDER crowd?

My first home computer was a C128D -- you know, with the built in disk drive, and monitor to go with it. My Dad bought it for Christmas of 1984. At the time I was'nt even 9.

But I took good care of it, and had a mess of stuff for it. Finally gave it to a family member as a hand me down before I went to college in August 1994. It was still working great at the time.

Now I'm happy just to play the emulator and also check out games I missed in the prime, like Seven Cities of Gold.