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SID emulation was decent VIC-II worked if the software behaved but most of the undocumented tricks didn't work well. I tried out A64 on my 0, and the emulation still wasn't as fast as the real thing. The 68000 at 7 MHz just wasn't fast enough to emulate the 6502 at acceptable speed.

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I wanted to get a Mac emulator, but was never able to get the ROMs at a decent price.Ħ4 emulation was much more difficult. Apple certainly didn't want them getting into the hands of Amiga and ST owners for emulation purposes. About the only way to get them was off a junked Mac motherboard, but in those days, junked boards usually got refurbished and reused. The only thing that kept it from being more popular was the difficulty in acquiring Mac ROMs to put on the board.

As I recall, it was a little faster than an equivalent Mac. If you have trouble to run games, try to edit options in Settings > Peripheral Drives.Mac emulation worked rather well, because, as you noted, the CPU architecture was the same. Running games in VICE is quite straightforward most of the time. Use the File > Attach Disk Image to attach the required disk, then press a button to continue. Games with multiple disks will prompt you to insert disk number two or more at some point. Click on the picture to see a bigger GIF. Simple drag and drop of Chip's Challenge d64 file into WinVICE window. Most C64 games can be launched in just a few seconds with a simple drag and drop of the game file, or the first file, into the VICE main window, where you can see the Commodore 64 prompt screen.Īlternatively, you may select File > Smart attach Disk/Tape, then select the program name to run in the image contents.

Most of the time, multiple disks are named GAME0.D64, GAME1.D64, and so on. Look for the game file or the first one if the game is on multiple disks. prg, plain program file: program files that can be loaded immediately, not a physical format per se. crt, cartridge format: cartridge were fast, but very expensive, less than 400 cartridge games are listed by C64-Wiki. t64, tape format: tapes where quite popular too, around 7000 games were released in this cheap and slow format, according to. d64, disk format: the most popular format for games, some of the later games where released on several disks. NFO containing game information, and one or more files containing the actual game code. Most of the time, you will just want to run the Commodore 64 emulator, named 圆4.exe (or 圆4.app on Mac).Īfter downloading a C64 game and unzipping it, you will usually find one. VICE comes with several emulators for the various computers released by Commodore. Note: This tutorial is focused on Windows, but it's almost the same on other operating systems. Other emulators are quite similar and should not pose any problem.

Gamebase: a nice front-end and database program to play games on various platforms, including the Commodore computers.Īs VICE is the most versatile emulator, this page will use it for the tutorial.

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Hoxs64: a more recent C64 emulator, supports Windows XP and up.

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C64 Forever: an easy to use VICE front-end for Windows, with a free and a paid version for advanced users.

CCS64 is a shareware without limits, if you enjoy it, please register your version to support the author.

CCS64: an ongoing project started in 1995, still active but Windows only.

Note: select amd64/圆4 version without SDL.

#C64 emulator for mac mac os#

VICE: stands for "Versatile Commodore Emulator" and sometimes called WinVICE, VICE supports tons of operating systems (Windows, Linux, Mac OS X.) and also provide emulation for almost all Commodore computer systems.Ī very solid emulator with tons of options, recommended.

Several emulators are still active, though two of the list below are just front-ends and use existing emulators: Majority of them are now inactive project. Several emulators are available, although the vast

This quick how-to will help you run C64 games on Windows, Mac or Linux.Īlthough C64 emulation is less popular than DOS emulation, a strong community is still active on websites like C64.com or. A very small part compared to the 20000+ games released by TOSEC (The Old School Emulation Center) and 25000 listed by Gamebase 64,īut you can already spend days playing the Commodore 64 games we have. About 3800 C64 games are available or will be soon published on MyAbandonware.