#Commodore 64 retroarch update#
#Commodore 64 retroarch free#
#Commodore 64 retroarch windows#

After a fair bit of fiddling, however, I could see that there was real potential there. I love Retroarch and I've used it for years, but computer platforms isn't exactly something that it typically handles all that well, as that tends to introduce a lot of additional complications - it's just not all that conducive of an environment for it. CCS64 2.0B in DOSBox was still better than basically all of these options, which didn't exactly bode well. I used Vice (both SDL and GTK3), Hoxs64, micro64, C64 Forever, Yace64, Frodo, and several versions of CCS64. I kindof went back to the drawing board at that point and decided to do a fresh sweep of a bunch of different emulators to see if anything would be satisfactory. I was at about 600 games completed when I decided I was just going to have to burn it all down and rework the whole thing. After literally months of work and an insane amount of testing, I finally came to the conclusion that I just needed something else. Fairly frequent, inescapable vsync flaws were basically the final straw for me. There were a few things that I just could not remedy no matter what I did. The further I got, however, the more some things started to creep through and bother me. That's what I've been working on for the last 6 months.įor the first month or two I continued to do the same thing I had done with the original collection but simply expanded the library. I was relatively satisfied with that collection, but knew that eventually I was going to have to expand it into a larger project. I had custom joystick controls that allowed me to swap ports, swap disks, fast forward, have a dedicated button for up on the joystick (useful for platformers), and it had the massive boon of 'Maximum 1541 Speed', an awesome auto-warp feature in CCS64.

What I ended up doing was using an admittedly rather convoluted method of setting up the DOS version of CCS64 (yes, it's that old) in DOSBox Daum which actually worked a lot better than you'd probably expect.

#Commodore 64 retroarch windows#

The Windows version of CCS64 has some significant. That said, CCS64 had always been my emulator of choice, because it got the closest to what I wanted. In nearly all cases there was always something that just rubbed me the wrong way something that kept it from being exactly what I wanted. I've always been extremely picky when it came to C64 emulation. Having done my time with a real C64 as a kid, I have no desire to go back to the hassles that that entails (extremely long load times, cumbersome disk swapping, constantly swapping joystick ports from game to game, etc.) and, having been into emulation since the late 90's, I've messed around with a lot of different C64 emulators over the years. That was a collection of 128 of my favorite C64 games from my childhood, and it turned out relatively well. While I primarily stick with DOS and Windows 3.1/95 games, I've also done a few Amiga games and even made a collection of C64 games called C64 Dreams.

#Commodore 64 retroarch update#

I think the only updates in somewhat recent memory (the latest is from September 2015) have just been for compatibility for newer OSes (it does work on Windows 10).Some of you may know that I have a website where I update older PC games to run on modern computers. Maybe at one point it might have legitimately been shareware, but it's been in development since the 90's and I think it just got to the point that there wasn't really anything left to add. I thought it was worth mentioning because I've heard some people say it was the reason they didn't check out CCS64 in the first place.

#Commodore 64 retroarch free#

It's just 'If you like this and use it, feel free to send a donation.' 'Donationware' would be the more appropriate term. Shareware implies that there's some limitation in functionality until it's purchased, but there isn't in CCS64.

One other thing worth noting about CCS64 is that Håkan Sundell, the developer, refers to it on his site as 'shareware' but it's really not. I'd like to do one on Atari 8-bit computers as well. It's actually very easy to setup and integrate into LB. Once I finish the Amiga video I'm working on, I may do a CCS64 one as well. The only problems I've ever had with it have invariably been the result of bad dumps (there's actually quite a few of those in TOSEC). I've never had any compatibility issues with it.