C64 Emulation & Zork

[miner2049er]

BTW the z interpreter for Windows Mobile seems to work well with these games.

[wongojack]

You can set 1541 drive speed in VICE to 200% -its in one of the menus. And if you press alt+w, Vice goes into "Warp Speed" which means that it uses as much of your computer's CPU as it can. This also speeds up the emulation to like 1900% but for Zork it wont matter and you can just go back to non-warp by pressing alt+w.

[chalksalad]

Were you running the lares 32 bit build by any chance? I have a 64 bit core i5 and win7-64 but couldn't get the 64 bit version to run.

No idea but my system is a Core 2 duo with Windows XP in 32-bit.

[kynrek]

You can set 1541 drive speed in VICE to 200% -its in one of the menus. And if you press alt+w, Vice goes into "Warp Speed" which means that it uses as much of your computer's CPU as it can. This also speeds up the emulation to like 1900% but for Zork it wont matter and you can just go back to non-warp by pressing alt+w.

It's pretty funny if you have warp on and hit the spacebar, it scans the keyboard so fast that I get about 10 spaces when I hit the spacebar so it looks like

grab Sack

[wongojack]

/\/\ Something must be lost in the translation there. . . and just be sure to only 'grab Sack' in private

[kynrek]

Ok I actually made a video to explain myself....and poke fun a socal http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M3mHrD4p4gU I also posted this in listener media under "Grab sack"

[wongojack]

Watched your video and I feel for you. You've obviously never used a c64 and likely have never played a text adventure. Its hard to go back to those. Just think what it would have been like if you were 8 years old, could not spell and could not type - THE HORROR

This might be more fun for you to start with: http://www.homestarrunner.com/dungeonman.html
Always check the wiki: http://www.hrwiki.org/wiki/Thy_Dungeonman

An intro http://www.homestarrunner.com/sbemail94.html

[kynrek]

I have used a c64 (I grew up on it) I was just poking fun like an avgn review or rage quit video. although I don't think the response time was THAT slow especially on text adventure games.

[tcv]

The response time did seem a bit slow, but who knows... nostalgia and all that.