Commodore 64 setup via FE

[Vigo]

I was wondering if anyone has a C64 emulator setup running perfectly on their arcade, I ran into a couple issues when working with WinVice.

1. A lot of games need keyboard support, but when I will be using the emulator with my mame machine (I will be using MaLa) I won't really be able to use a keyboard at all...has anyone sucessfully worked around this, like by having a list of games that need no keyboard, or having common keys used mapped to their arcade buttons? If someone has a Arcade Machine Friendly list of games, I would greatly appreciate to see it.

2. I can get the Disks to autoload from the MaLa FE, but when I try to run a cartridge, WinVice tries to load it like a disk, and won't work. Is there a way to get cartridges to load from the frontend. Some of my favorite games were carts.

Thanks,
Vigo

[unclet]

I gave up trying to emulate the C16, 64 and 128 games since it was just a pain .... and the actual games were not that special to me anyway.   Basically, way to much work for me.   

I am just at the end of configuring the Commodore Amiga games .... which was tons of work to configure.  I am almost done going through each game manually (2500+) to determine which ones are actually "cab-worthy" ... so far I only found 250+ ........yes  ... a real pain.

I will be posting the game list for others to benefit when I am done .....

[Ghoward]

I have been running Winvice for a few years on my machine without any problems.
I use quick64 for mounting images.

There are alot of 64 games that only use the joystick....

Gary

[Vigo]

I tried using quick64 just now. It works fine on disks, but it doesn't like cartridge files, it says: "File type not yet supported"

[unclet]

CCS64 emulator works on cartridge files and others .....

http://www.computerbrains.com/ccs64/

[Vigo]

CCS64 emulator works on cartridge files and others .....

http://www.computerbrains.com/ccs64/

I heard that ccs64 wasn't free, but I think I was misinformed. I'll give it a shot. Thanks.

[krick]

At some point, I need to get a commodore emulator set up  in my cabinet.

A few games I need to play again...

Archon
Boulder Dash (the C64 port is the best I've ever played)
Jumpman / Jumpman Jr.

[chemame]

Earlier this year, I helped a couple of guys on this forum set up winvice along with AutoHotKey, to accomplish the following goals:
1) remap ESC to exit the emulator, and a different key to be RUN/STOP
2) support "flip lists", so disks can be "swapped" with a single keypress

I tried searching for the thread just now, but got Internal Server Error from arcadecontrols server. Oh well.

I've been running winvice for years and I LOVE it. I suppose it exposes me for the old fart that I am, c64 was my old stomping ground.

In any event, winvice and mamewah can work REALLY well together, with a few tweaks from AutoHotKey. And, if you're using AutoHotKey, it shouldn't be too difficult to modify the AHK script so that winvice is workable without a dedicated keyboard. At least one would think so. YMMV.

If anyone here recalls the thread (was Feb 06 or something), a link posted here may be helpful. not sure why I can't search the forum right now.

DOH! And I told myself it would be safe to pop in here again, that I wouldn't get sucked in. Arrrggghhhh.

Chemame

[chemame]

OK, found the old thread. Who needs a search feature when you can just flip through page after page after page?

http://forum.arcadecontrols.com/index.php?topic=52274.0

Again, your question was slightly different, so this thread won't solve your problem as-is. But it should be more than enough to determine if it's a workable suite of software that CAN solve your problem. I still praise the day someone first mentioned AHK on here.

Chemame

[Vigo]

I accendently replied to you in the thread that you directed me too....oops....But anyway, thanks again chemame!

[headkaze]

I use Vice but when I tried CCS64 I don't think it would go full screen automatically. I wrote a program that you run after CCS64.exe that will put it into full screen and remove the menu.

Rename fullscreen.png to fullscreen.exe