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Post by virtualsky on May 20, 2022 1:08:31 GMT
For anyone interested, I put together a collection of NTSC-specific games on my website for downloading, here. The zip file contains over 250 games, as well as CJM files where necessary. I went through my collection of D64 disk images and grouped together all of the games that ran properly on my NTSC Commodore C64. Although there are many PAL-centric games that have been “fixed” to run on NTSC C64s, many of them either run fast or produce distracting visual artifacts or glitches. And, even though NTSC TheC64Minis can play PAL games, they do so at the faster speed. These games, which I have included in this archive file, run at the proper speed on NTSC C64s, 128s, and TheC64Minis/Maxis (at least from what I can tell). So, you will experience these games the way the programmer intended. I have a complete list of the games I've included in this archive on the website. I hope someone here finds the collection useful. Enjoy!
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Post by oocozyoo on May 21, 2022 9:03:20 GMT
Thank you for your time and effort and for sharing your work !! Nice little site
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Post by virtualsky on May 21, 2022 14:52:54 GMT
Hey, thanks so much and thanks for visiting. I hope you find it useful or at least entertaining. I enjoy trying to share in some way the fun I've had with my C64 and 128 over the past (almost) forty years. Gheesh... has it really been that long?
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Post by c64stuff on May 21, 2022 23:14:10 GMT
Yeah great to see somebody compiling ntsc stuff. People seem to forget America is where Jack and Commodore started and millions of their computers were sold in the states. There was no close rival like the Spectrum to compete with it the Timex version flopped, and the C64 way outsold the Apple II line. Jack also literally put Texas Instruments out of the home computer business by slashing prices so much the Ti994a couldn't compete. Commodore's closest competitor was probably the Atari home computer line but even they couldn't keep up. The C64 for the most part owned the American home computer market. Even when Nintendo later came along that wasn't a home computer. The C64 scene for gaming was still vibrant and when the home gaming console market crashed due to crappy Atari 2600 games it didn't really impact the C64 market or gaming scene.
It's also worth mentioning that the Vic20 was also outselling pretty much everybody including the Apple II line before the C64 came along.
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Post by virtualsky on May 22, 2022 2:16:01 GMT
It's also worth mentioning that the Vic20 was also outselling pretty much everybody including the Apple II line before the C64 came along. Glad you liked the NTSC collection. Although emulation has helped break down some of the PAL/NTSC barricades, I still prefer to play on my real (North American) C128 whenever I can. So, games that are NTSC still have an importance to me. Jack had a motto of "be your own competition". So, rather than have another company come along and take the wind out of the VIC-20 "sails", he did it himself with the C64. Pretty tenacious.
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