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    Creatures 2 - got this to work after finally smartening up and looking at GameBase's site for it... "Put in other disk during cracktro"... oh. That's why it always failed

    Just spent an hour playing it and only getting near to beating level 2. I think I want to play some more... this might be 'that game' for the C64 for me, heh.
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    I agree with the C128 instead of C64 hardware. The C128s I've run into may have broken keys or be nasty from being in storage for a decade but they all worked. Many C64s I've come across had issues with bad memory chips that caused crashing.

    Some games don't load on my C128 without typing in the actual name of the executable file on the disk. So I'll type:

    Load "$",8,1

    which brings up a list of files on the disk. I'll then use the CURSOR key to move up the list and replace the

    10 ***********************
    20 "Turrekan +3loadmaster"
    30 ***********************

    with
    10 *******************
    LOAD"Turrekan +3loadmaster",8,1
    30 *******************
    LOADING
    RUN
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    As for the Bard's Tale games, the best versions are on the Amiga. YOA-HAVA-HEALINNNNnn Love the monk heal sound.
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    Quote Originally Posted by Jorpho View Post
    But Neuromancer is also available for DOS, and also looks better there than it does on the C64:
    http://www.mobygames.com/game/neuromancer/screenshots

    (I guess the sound wouldn't be nearly as good, though. Sampled music in 1988 is something DOS could hardly dream of.)
    Of course it "looks better" on DOS, which is a relative statement because it looks pretty ass across the board.

    The audio in the DOS one is frigging disastrous though. The C64 one plays digitized Devo. It automagically wins due to that.


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    Creatures 2 is one of those late classic PAL titles, from the same guys that later did Mayhem (see my avatar!). Action puzzles and blood ahoy! I was able to one life the game back in the day, save everyone and find all three hidden bonus rooms. Took a lot of practice though heh. I might even be getting the original artwork for it in due course...

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    I had some exposure to the C64 as a kid, but since my first computer was an Amiga, I never really got around to exploring the C64 library. I played some Frogger, Ninja Mission, Crazy Taxi, and Montezuma's Revenge way back when, but that's about it.
    I prefer to play classic computer games on the original hardware, so I haven't tried emulating any C64 games. Maybe one of these days when I have enough space, I'll pick one up, along with one of the modern mass storage accessories.

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    you mean space taxi, not crazy taxi
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    Quote Originally Posted by Arkhan View Post
    you mean space taxi, not crazy taxi
    Correct, although Space Taxi does kinda play like a 2D Crazy Taxi... minus the Offspring.

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    Some random points for comment:

    WinVICE is pretty usable. A lot of games are worth it just for the SID, in which case I just get the High Voltage SID Collection. Terra Cresta is one of these games; the loading theme is the only original thing in the game worth a damn. Sounds to me like AB + might agree with this statement so if you're just looking for a SID fix on some games you can just check this out: link

    I have the feeling that I'm not getting something very simple about The Last Ninja because he's always taken a lot of hits in combat that I can't do anything about. Those are for another day I guess.

    TOSEC seems to have a lot of games (not just C64 but say MSX as well) only available with cracktros and other hacked-on garbage. Gets ugly and old fast. Up to this point I've been lucky to find any C64 games so I'll try gamebase next time.

    Temple of Apshai with a pretty GUI makes me laugh. I've got the TRS-80 version (unfortunately with a copied disk and no system to play it on, dagnabbit). Looking through the manual you see very quickly it's not a game meant to be played with fancy colors and other garbage.

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    There was a pretty rad RPG I finished once called Deathlord. It's pretty damn hard though, I had to look at a walkthrough a few times to finish it.

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    Oh! Have you tried Myth yet?

    Thats probably the best platformer around.

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    So has WinVICE now not only caught up to CCS64, but actually exceeded it? (CCS64 was the way to go back in the day.)
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    Quote Originally Posted by Jorpho View Post
    So has WinVICE now not only caught up to CCS64, but actually exceeded it? (CCS64 was the way to go back in the day.)
    dude it passed it up like, 5 years ago lol
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