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“breadbox” case that most fans of the system remember). Production of the first run, Commodore crammed all of the C64’sĬomponents into VIC 20 cases (Commodore soon adopted the famous brown Who was Commodore kidding? The reasonįor the similarity was actually quite pragmatic - to speed up May seem obvious today, but that's hindsight.

Really, what made the C64 so successful? The machine's rise to glory Commodore saw the line in the siliconīetween computers and consoles and didn't just step over it - they Subsequent popularity may well have played a small role in The Great Obviously, the C64 played a definitive role in the evolution ofĬomputer gaming - especially since the C64’s low price and Sell over 17 million C64 computers worldwide, and softwareĭevelopers and publishers released over 10,000 commercial programs. (There should be a green check to it).Besides being featured in countless general videogame and computer magazines, the Commodore 64 series of systems had magazines devoted specifically to the platform, like the pictured Ahoy!, Run, Compute!'s Gazette and Commodore Microcomputers publicationsĪ 12-year production cycle from 1982 to 1994, Commodore managed to You may also need to highlight and select the “allow keyset joystick” option. Follow the process above, but set the controls using the “Joystick 1 mapping” instead of “define keysets” and set “Joystick Device 1″ to “Joystick”. If you have a gamepad connected to your PC, you can map the controls to that, as well. Press escape to exit the settings menu and you’re ready to play. (Note: Spacebar seems like a natural “fire” button, but it’s used to pause some games, so I recommend something else).īack out from the menu using the left arrow key, then highlight and select “Joystick Device 1”, then highlight and select “keypad 1”. You need to pick a key for each direction and joystick button, labelled “fire”. To set a key, press right arrow to select the entry, then press the key you want to use. Set your desired controls by selecting each entry in keyset 1. Highlight and select “Joystick settings”, then “define keysets”. Press F12 to bring up the emulator settings menu, and the up and down arrows to highlight “Machine Settings” and press the right arrow to select it.

Here’s a quick rundown of how to set controls for your keyboard.

Some, such as Donkey Kong, start up without any controls assigned.ĭon’t let that scare you off, though: You can easily set your own controls for any Commodore 64 game on the archive through the emulator’s settings. As of this moment, every game has its own default control mapping, and many of them are not intuitive.