Good Commodore 64 RPGs

[JaySn]

Are you talking about playing on an actual C64 or just using an emulator?

If you're thinking about playing on an actual C64, I would highly, highly advise against it. The loading times on many games are just excruciating. I laugh whenever I see complaints about load times in a modern game because you have no idea what bad load times are until you've sat waiting five minutes for a C64 game to load. And then had to wait another five minutes when you enter a dungeon. And then wait another five minutes when you come back out. And another five minutes when you enter a town.

I doubt I would have read nearly as many books as I have if I didn't always keep one near my C64 to pass the time while games were loading.

And to think I just picked one up for ten bucks.

(The floppy drive warns about the risk of fire.)

 

[Luzur]

if you got one, go with that, even if emulating goes faster nothing really beats the genuine feel of operating a true beast.

 

[Flatlander]

Maybe use something like

http://www.kotinet.com/1541/
http://www.64hdd.com/64hdd.html
http://www.cancarpet.com/saymantek/c64tpc_en.html

But those still require a PC to be connected to the C64. Anybody know of a standalone flash hardrive style solution for C64?

As a simple solution try to find some of those turbo cartridges that were popular back in the days. They don't work with all games but when they do it's a significant improvement.

Edit: I knew I had seen something like that before, and here it is: http://jderogee.tripod.com/project1541.htm

See http://benheck.com/04-05-2009/commodore ... are-laptop for a sweet demonstration of it, among other goodness.

 

[Luzur]

i know of that whateveritisnamedagain addon with SD cards for C64.

 

[Wolfus]

if you got one, go with that, even if emulating goes faster nothing really beats the genuine feel of operating a true beast.

 

[DemonKing]

Bard's Tales and Gold Box series are the ones I spent the most time on.

Alos dabbled in Magic Candle, Ultima and anything else I could get my hands on.

 

[DwarvenFood]

Why, without the long loading times there would not be and time to play the small mini games that they used to put in there. So it was not always a dull wait.

I am less fond of the tape loading times though, and error sensitivity. I like the emulators but the sound never gets done down to 100% like the original.