Post by dosman on Jul 4, 2021 14:06:45 GMT
I'm pretty much new to Commodore, and learning as I go. There's a post here about Folders and labeling them with Disk 1, and using AD and J1 flags. I read that post, applied the information to the Ghostbusters.d64 file and the game now works. I had to switch to PAL mode, but the music at the intro is still sped up. And the demos thing is still a problem with regards to they run and look crisp and clean on the CCS emulator, but on the MAXi they run, but they look awful. And sometimes they freeze and have to exit game.
So in a nutshell I got the Mini, but saw that there are keymapping problems with hooking up a USB keyboard, and I saw they came out with a full size keyboard C64, so I gave the Mini to a relative, and now own a C64 MAXi.
Previous to all of this, I've played around with the CCS emulator on the computer. Someone made The Amazing Horse.prj. It works great on the CCS emulator but on the Mini and MAXi, the sound is faster. I also have tried to play Ghostbusters.d64 and Starwar.d64 on the MAXi. In both games, ghostbuster and starwars, the joystick does nothing. And the sound seems to run faster on both games. I've also tried running ghostbusters on C64 PAL and C64 NTSC modes and the games music runs faster in both modes. I haven't added any flags to the filename yet. In ghostbusters, when I get to the screen where I can start selecting items, the joystick doesn't do anything, and the keyboard does nothing as well.
Now I have seen things about having to add flags to the filename, such as _AD for Accurate Disk. Well I also have a ton of demos, and none of them were running when I had the Mini. I add a flag of _AD to the demos, and now they kind of work. I have one demo that on the computer looks beautiful, but on the Mini and MAXi, it looks awful. There's artifacts hanging off of words that aren't there on the CCS emulator. Is this a limitation on The C64 that can't be solved? On both the Mini and MAXi, the one demo I did get working, freezes after about 10 minutes and at the same exact spot. On the emulator the demo plays through the entire way. And these are single disk demos, not multi disk.
Any help/advice is greatly appreciated. As I said, I'm pretty much new to all of it. I grew up with the Atari 2600, DOS 6.22, etc. and Commodore 64 has always intrigued me. Now that I own a C64, I've been learning BASIC, and am really having a great time with it. Thank you 
