You can find download information for the d64 image here, and a direct link here. I’m more so surprised that this didn’t ignite more 6502, or other non 32bit machine versions of DooM. It’s really cool to check out, and yes it runs on VICE. Naturally this won’t run on a stock 20, rather you need to get the maximum 37kb of RAM, and it requires a floppy disk drive.
The sound effects were re-cut from the PC speaker stuff, and yes, even reduced versions of the MIDI music make the cut! It has cut down the video rendering obviously, but still has some of the C enemy AI logic, it’s a bit more like Wolf in that there is no height in the cut down levels, but wow it’s still amazing to see. Over on Denial, The Commodore Vic 20 Forum Kweepa did the seemingly impossible by using cc65 and some assembly for a somewhat cut down (haha!) DooM on the 8bit. I was watching this video of the 8bit guy, and ( jump to 19:20) he quickly mentions DooM on the VIC 20. I just found out about this one, it’s DooM! … on an 8bit.
Of course where to find Zork along with other CP/M software? The zip zork123_80.zip can be located on, even fun things like Microsoft BASIC v5.21 (Interpreter), along with the manual.ĬP/M only recognized a single drive, so you have to swap diskettes (Such a typical Commodore 64 experience), and here we go! Well another search brought me to the package ‘ ctools‘ which I quickly built on the Linux subsystem for Windows (I had to add -fpermissive to get it compile.), and now I could take that CP/M diskette delete the contents, and for the heck of it insert in Zork. While messing around in Vice, I saw that this cartridge is emulated now! A quick search led me to where I was able to then locate the needed, and I was booted up into CP/M and of course that hit the first snag which is of course, where is the software? Not being able to read a standard 1541 diskette would prove to be it’s undoing. The Commodore 64, lacking in RS-232 ports, and it’s incredibly incompatible 1541 drive rendered it nearly impossible for the average home user to transfer any programs in the specially formatted CP/M diskettes for the cartridge. However as always the major failing of CP/M was the massively different and incompatible diskettes of every platform.
Posted in 6502, Commodore | 13 Replies Source to the Apple-II MIT Logo recoveredīack in 1983 there was this great idea of expanding the Commodore 64 with the then popular (but declining) base of serious business software from the CP/M side of the world by creating a cartridge with a z80 processor inside, and a special port of the CP/M operating system that would take over the C64 letting you run real programs like Fortran, Cobol and the far better (and updated) Microsoft Basic v5! Although amateur surgery may be part of it. If this were 1982 I could be a media mogel! But in 2020 I suspect that I can measure the demand for new tapes on one finger. It feels so weird to have no software for a machine.Īsking some suppliers I was able to get some 10 packs of 60 minute tapes for 元 27.5, or approximately $3.75 for a pack of 10.
I also got a datasette with it, but I’m oddly enough out of audio cassettes. I haven’t’ had time to do much else, but I wanted to share this quick bit. It looks much better in person, but yeah there it is.
I had to wave my phone around for a bit to get the TV to scan the analog band with the Commodore powered up, but after 5 minutes, it finally had done it’s scan and I could behold the hew of the blue screen. Unlike NTSC, there is no channel 3/4 select, nor is there an external RF modulator, it’s all contained in the 64c’s chassis. The cable to the TV (LEAD, lol!) has 2 different ends to it, so only one side goes to the TV, and the other to the equipment. Now for those who have never setup a PAL Commodore before, they output to CHANNEL 4. However as it was in the UK, the power supply is already 220v, and the TV I have in the office is PAL (it should have had SCART too, but they sent me the UK one, not the continental one ….) I was a bit nervous if it would even turn on. It’s a little dirty, but overall it feels okay. Yet, one week after I bought it, the Commodore arrived! Commodore 64 CĪnd then as a fluke I found an auction for a kind of beat up Commodore 64c for a mere £40! Naturally shipping it to Hong Kong was going to cost more than that, and with all the Wuhan Flu thing going on, I really didn’t expect it to show up any time soon. I’ve been disappointed, as I haven’t played with one in years. Good working ones are selling for double or more. I’ve been looking on and off the last year, and they all seem to be $100 USD minimum for one that is either ‘as-is’ or broken.