I have hoping for something like this to come along. I really enjoyed c64 when I was in my teens, and I mist it very much. I like making my own programs to see what I could come up with. thank you for bring back my youth.

Brilliant emulator. I have used it to play Miner 2049. Same look and feel, even the sounds are exactly the same.

The good Ole days I had a c64 and later c64c the newer version and had tape drive and 5.25 floppy drive . I remember spending my whole weekend coding games from the magazine. I loved it so much because it had way better graphics than the atari 2600. It was about the only system to play arcade games.

Excellent primer! I found my way here to run the C64 version of Choplifter without having to pull out my C128 and all that goes with that. This is perfect.

Thanks, Bob. Great video. I've only recently got into emulating the 64 (I had one back in the day) and am enjoying it immensely. I'm still a little confused about the different file-types and what I should or shouldn't be using (but I sort of get it). Some games seem to have loading problems depending on what kind of file it is (.t, .tap, .d, .crt, etc). It would be good to have an instructional video on this!

I can’t believe you have less then 1k subs your vids are so entertaining and helpful

Only after your guide I understood how to set inputs, thanks, man!

This is a great tutorial. I'm using Vice on Linux and and it's great emulator, but it can be a bit complicated for people who don't have experience with emulators. It has plenty of options to emulate various versions of Commodore 8-bit machines and addons for them. The emulation accuracy is great and only plus/4 and C16 needs some work. I wish that in the future Vice gets OSD menu similar to FS-UAE (Amiga emulator) that can allow the most important functions of the emulator to be controlled using gamepad. I remember trying Vice in the past and it kinda made me stop trying to emulate 8-bit Commodores, because it felt broken, but now I'm having fun with it and I can recommend it especally with this tutorial.

Great video as always. Sadly the Vice emulator does not emulate the the C16 and Plus/4 very well. But there is a better emulator for that called YAPE.

Thanks for this video! 😁👍 I just used this emulator to play Blue Max on my Dell Inspiron laptop and the memories and nostalgia I experienced were priceless! ❤️

That's frickin' awesome! Your tutorial covered everything I need to know to get Vice running, how to get games, and how to control them. The ENTIRE ball of wax so to speak. Thank you my friend, great stuff indeed!👍👍

No mention of fast loader. You can download fast loader crt images and attach them, then type in the basic commands to run the games. It is what I always do because some games load slow.

Thank you so much for this! I grew up with atatar2600 and C64. C64 was my favorite all time computer. I played just about everything. I loved Guild Of Thieves, Defender of The Crown. Legacy Of The Ancients, Ultima Series and many more. I had the C64 itch years ago, and bought everything all over again and then some lol. I bought 2 monitors, 3 disk drives (1541, 1541c, and 1571) 1 original C64, C64c, and C128. Also the tape drive, all original manuals, and at least 100 boxed games, and 1000s of floppies that have games and some are blank. I even bought a disk notcher to use on those double sided density disks. Remember that you could have games on sides A and B? Is there a way with this program that I can copy my games? I know I probably could with the sdiec2 device. I will probably get all my C64 stuff together and sell it. I have many of the best games you can find in mint, unwrapped condition. I appreciate the video, I'm going to turn my laptop into my very own C64 machine!

Thanks for your amazing video. After watching many of them about Vice, yours is the clearest. If you don't mind, I have a couple of troubles when using Vice and I am not sure how to solve them: 1.- I can play Commodore 64 games with a joystick as Vice recognizes it; but I am not able to make it use two buttons. Some games use two (for example one for jump and one for shoot) but Vice only recognizes the shoot button; 2.- You show how to load those games with two archives; but in your video there is a load screen where it ask you to load the "second tape", and that's when you load the second archive. Well, I have games with two archives, but when loading the first one, it never asks you for the "second (b face) archive" and so the loading is never finished. Thanks for your attention.

my grand[a used to use this thing back in the day... great days........

Thanks for this, been meaning to find a good emulator for awhile. I love how this one feels almost genuine in replication.

Thanks Bob, now I feel like being 14 again!

Fanrastic and very helpful video mate 👍👍👍

Thank you for this upload. I am keen to see if my USB MegaDrive controller will work, if not, I'll source a Joystick and it's game on!

Another fantastic emulator I use is called CCS64. Try both emulators. I use Vice for running my VIC-20 games.

Thanks for the informative video

Thanks. Great guide. Definitely subbed. 👍🏼

Hey, I noticed in your video capture of the C64 BASIC prompt screen (waiting for the command), it has scanlines like on an old television set. I'm assuming that the people who made the emulator put that in on purpose to make it more "genuine" , but is there a way to disable said lines, so it is smooth?

Really helpful, thank you!

Worked perfectly. Thanks very much 👍

Brilliant guide. Thanks. I'm in nostalgia heaven playing Dropzone ......... not looked into this at all yet but wondering if we can do custom controller mappings for keyboard functions i.e. space bar mapped to controller for smart bomb in Dropzone :-)

Im a Games developer and would love to create games for the C64,BUT using Microsoft Visual Studio using "C" or "C#" which Ive heard you can do?..I didnt learn assembly lol

Thanks Bob , everything works fine...one question...is it possible to save a selfwritten basic program and the reload it ?

Thanks for sharing such great content. One question about the keyboard layout settings @9:26. the default keyboard settings do not follow the layout you just explained. How do I set that up to get the exact keyboard layout illustrated in your website.

hi man! great video btw. i have a question. i am a fan of a game (football director) but i have a question. its a saved game so u can keep continue to seasons,but i dont know how to save and load my saved game to keep continue it. how can we do it with that program? is that doable?

What do you do if there is an Side A & Side B game i downloaded Transformers The Battle To Save The Earth 1986 game but there is Side A & Side B

Very good info. Tried some emulators and games before. However, much of the old feeling is ruining by the fact that I don't know how to use my old C64 joysticks. They obviously don't have USB, but some other type of connector that is not used anymore. Playing with keys or some console game controller just does not feel the same to me. I have hear that that there are some kind of converters somewhere, but it seems really hard to find.

PROJECT FIRESTARTER -HANDS DOWN BEST C64 GAME (In my humble opinion)

I want cartridge Emulation for everything instant 💪🏻

I loaded maniac mansion and it has 2 sides - I get side 1 working fine select characters and then it asks for side 2, cant figure out how to get it to work?

Has anyone received a Microsoft Defender SmartScreen warning when trying to open the emulator? I was afraid to proceed.

Are the games from the c64 website still under copyright or are they are abandonware.

i use c64 for ever

Stuck on the batman game, it says in the menu, hit the button. It does not say what button? Can't get past this screen.

I didn't notice any mention of concern regarding viruses/malware/spyware. Any comment on that?

Wish Android emulators actually worked. PC emulator works good though. Thanks!

How to download n install mssiah on it ?

why i should make a commodore to play games? i can play with my pc

The best part is I don't have to because I still own mine. Edit: With the old school joystick that's just a black box, with a black stick, and an orange ball on top of it. Yeah. I love it. Not what it does to my power bill but... 🤐🤐

1000's of games that we can play, and 1000's that won't play.

Hi. I suscribe your channel . Like

Am I the only one hearing dienload when he says download?

Games look good :)

Who has come only for the basic 👇

I wish the pico 8 had been the dream successor to the commodore computer instead of the garbage it turned out to be

Free? Hmmm be careful there, most games are still copyrighted. Therefore, you need to own the game in order to download it legally but yes the actual download is free to do.

i use c64 forever

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Wtf are they emulating the loading times? That's very bad, why would anyone want that?

You need to learn how to normalize your audio

WTF MAN

Please help! I get the x64se file for my Mac, and when I try loading I get this: The default interactive shell is now zsh. To update your account to use zsh, please run `chsh -s /bin/zsh`.