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[Pyromania]

C64 Forever: Relive the golden days of the Commodore 64 without the hardware headaches

Commodore 64 fans who want to take a stroll down memory lane should take a peek at Cloanto’s emulator C64 Forever ($15 for download, $20 for standalone; free demo).

C64 Forever features the same multi-tabbed media center interface used by Amiga Forever. An enormous collection of classic games, over 100, are featured, including Arkanoid, Lotus Turbo Challenge, Frogger and other old friends from your childhood. Equally impressive are the demoscene selections, which remain astounding feats of programming acumen. A player-explorable, Wolfenstein-style 3D textured maze coded by Oxyron is my favorite.

Under the hood is the legendary VICE emulation engine. In development for 19 years, VICE has long been the gold standard for 8-bit Commodore diehards. The list of emulated systems goes up to 11, with all C64 variants as well as the Vic-20, the PET and CBM's business-class CP/M machines represented. Even GEOS, the rudimentary graphical OS shell, is included along with its application suite. All of the emulated systems are stable, but the C64 and Vic-20 are particularly rock solid, and have often been used in coding competitions in lieu of the actual hardware.

To read the rest of the review please click on the link below.

http://www.pcworld.com/article/20105...headaches.html

[RobertB]

Oooo, thanks for the link to the article!

Truly,
Robert Bernardo
Fresno Commodore User Group
http://videocam.net.au/fcug

[kedawa]

I still need to check out the evaluation copy that Cloanto generously gave me.

[Digiman]

As Tulip computers, unlike Amiga Inc, have no problem with the homage to Commodore computers that is the VICE suite of emulators I don't see the point.

Download VICE, double click to extract, drag and drop any T64/D64/TAP file onto the running emulator and it loads and runs automatically. No roms to buy legally, no extras to download. Perfect and simple as pie.

If you want to spend money on C64 software show your support by purchasing real games from Psytronik or others producing software in 2012 (you are also supplied with an emulator friendly copy of the game via email).

I wish Amiga games in 2012 showed the same level of artistic and technical talent as the C64 releases of this decade alone.