oh god why its like test drive 3 all over again! so if im guessing its the same way with really old PC games as well. the game's limit is the superCPU limit IE running balls out. i bet if you played marble madness you'd get the same effect but it would render it unplayable D: it has its good points and drawbacks. racing games obviously gained the most. i love it
That's awesome! You seem to know your stuff. Are there ways to improve disk access on a real C64? In particular for the Game Maniac Mansion and Zak McKracken.
Or are there adapters to load the game from a CF or SD card and things like that? I always wondered why the disk drive was so slow compared to the PC and Amiga.
@Mau1wurf1977 The disk drive is so slow because the chip running the port it's plugged in to doesn't work. Rather than delay the machine a few months to design a new chip, commodore just wrote some code to do the same job instead. If the chip worked, it'd be about five times faster.
@xadam2dudex Well, that's the thing... Commodore didn't want to spend the money. To fix the problem would have needed a new chip design. Commodore would never spend money when a product still sold.
Atari did the exact same thing about 7 years later. Only enough retailers complained that they fixed the chips for newer versions. I guess Jack Tramiel never learned.
@doritostheking In the "Rise and fall" book the engineers say that they initially put a high speed line for the diskdrive in the c64, but it didn't get in. And the drive was utterly slowed down with the vic 20 compability.
:D
elnavegante2006 1 month ago
Huge fan of the game and most of Accolade's stuff at the time. Amazing to see a good framerate off this game.
icbrkr 2 months ago
lol :)
EllipticDawid25 2 months ago
I have a 5 and a quarter inch floppuy drive in my windows 7 64 bit machine and when i did a speed test it did about 11KB/s
thelasthallow 3 months ago
wtf cmd????
MrSus102 3 months ago
Played this in school on a ibm. It was even worse then the c64. Ah .. good old days
trancelistic 4 months ago
Because of new SID, digitized sounds are less audible.
So i confirm, this is real c128.
drkamilz 4 months ago
Crikey!
sonninnos 4 months ago
Oh my... I played this to death on my old C64 when I was a kid and to see it like this is insanely better.
sapbeast 4 months ago
there was no ram drive emulator with the supercpu or ram expansion ?
xadam2dudex 5 months ago
oh god why its like test drive 3 all over again! so if im guessing its the same way with really old PC games as well. the game's limit is the superCPU limit IE running balls out. i bet if you played marble madness you'd get the same effect but it would render it unplayable D: it has its good points and drawbacks. racing games obviously gained the most. i love it
ratix98 7 months ago
That's awesome! You seem to know your stuff. Are there ways to improve disk access on a real C64? In particular for the Game Maniac Mansion and Zak McKracken.
Or are there adapters to load the game from a CF or SD card and things like that? I always wondered why the disk drive was so slow compared to the PC and Amiga.
Mau1wurf1977 7 months ago
@Mau1wurf1977 The disk drive is so slow because the chip running the port it's plugged in to doesn't work. Rather than delay the machine a few months to design a new chip, commodore just wrote some code to do the same job instead. If the chip worked, it'd be about five times faster.
doritostheking 5 months ago
@doritostheking is there a chip that came along that would work ?
xadam2dudex 5 months ago
@xadam2dudex Yep. Those plugged into the cartridge slot and took over the serial/floppy port. Most common one was called the "Epyx FastLoad".
doritostheking 5 months ago
@doritostheking they should have installed in in the motherboard.. how much would it have cost Commodore to make that mod to the board
xadam2dudex 5 months ago
@xadam2dudex Well, that's the thing... Commodore didn't want to spend the money. To fix the problem would have needed a new chip design. Commodore would never spend money when a product still sold.
Atari did the exact same thing about 7 years later. Only enough retailers complained that they fixed the chips for newer versions. I guess Jack Tramiel never learned.
doritostheking 5 months ago
@doritostheking In the "Rise and fall" book the engineers say that they initially put a high speed line for the diskdrive in the c64, but it didn't get in. And the drive was utterly slowed down with the vic 20 compability.
moijk 1 month ago
Wow, what a difference!
mantanz 10 months ago
very nice to see your super CPU in action :D I used to play a lot this game, really amazing to see it here boosted.
jesuszafra 1 year ago
damn! that's smooth indeed...
CUR50R 1 year ago