Project News
The System. As you can see, I am serious!
This used to be the place where I detailed some info on my old CD-64 project. From now on, it's going to chronicle bits and pieces I do towards GAMEBASE, as well as some info on what my C64's CMD Hard Drive contains as far as games go.
Current Catalog
Last Upload: 28-May-2000
If you'd like to see what I've cataloged so far, check out my catalog disk image. Download it, unzip it, and run it on a Commodore 64 emulator. I'll update this from time to time so you can see how I'm progressing in collecting games, although I do this a little less nowadays, so it's really for curiosity. Most of them are there. The catalog on D64 is merely a temporary thing. It's very easy for me to update this list from my HD, especially since my catalog expands quite considerably every month. The finished CD will have a text file.
Simply use the cursor keys to select a letter (or number) to search under. The F1 and F3 keys will either let you search for a file, quit, or when in an alpha directory will let you go forward or backward a page.
When you view the catalog, you'll notice a few titles coloured blue. Don't worry about these. These just mean that they won't load correctly from my HD. It may also mean that they need full 1541 emulation to play on a C64 emulator. In special cases I've closed them so I can't play them in case they do damage to themselves in the HD environment they aren't suited to (by doing direct disk access, for example within a 256 track and 256 sector environment). In some rare cases, my HD acts strangely to some multiload games, even though they haven't got fastloaders at all, so don't worry about the blue files. Everything on my catalog is fully working. If they weren't they wouldn't get on!
Note that some games may share the same name. In these cases, I've put in brackets the author or software company responsible (within the space I had!). At other times, there has been a BASIC game sharing the same (Thus the word BASIC or B in brackets). At other times, there have been two different versions of a game (such as Wizard of Wor and CBM's Avenger) both different; in these cases V1 and V2 are inserted after the filename. Multipart games, P1, P2 etc. is inserted after the filename to show the different parts. This usually occurs on text adventure games.
Then again, maybe there are two copies of the same game in my collection which I've done by accident and have to be weeded out in the next update.
Rarely you may see a H after the filename. This refers to a hack of a particular game with the levels changed for which an original release of the game with the same name also exists.
Latest News
Well, now I have a nice Pentium 4 tower PC which is my main system of late. My contribution to GAMEBASE has been typing in old games for the project. At the moment I'm going through "Sixty Programs for the Commodore 64", which I have been typing in while playing "America's Army" on my PC. It's a hard slog.
Also, Martin sent me some scans of old C+VG magazines to type-in, so I have my work cut out for me, as well as a busy day job.
If anyone has any listings to contribute to the Gamebase team, please send them in!!!
Rio