Can you tell me about these Commodore 64's

[A4000_Mad]

Hi guys,

I've recently aquired a couple of Commodore 64's and was wondering if you could tell me about them :-)



The brown one was in a local paper advertised as FREE to collector. So I drove 30 miles to get it and gave a nice old couple a fiver anyway, without even opening the big old cardboard box that they handed to me.

For the white one I made a donation of £10 at charity shop yesterday.

1. Why do they look so different?

2.  How old do you think they are?

3. Are either of them rare or valuable? :-D

4. Anything else you can tell me about them?


The white one is boxed like new but is missing a cartridge that is shown on the rear of  the box with pictures detailing the games Flimbo's Quest, Fiendish Freddy's Big Top O' Fun, KLAX and International Soccer :-(

Thanks

[A4000_Mad]

Many thanks for your interesting replies :-)

Unfortunately the above photo is of poor colour quality and the brown one is actually a lot browner than it looks. I would agree that the extra button isn't any kind of "hack". If there is a screw under this seal then the unit has probably never been opened......



I do indeed prefer the older looking brown one. I was impressed with the way it powers and controls the C2N cassette player (much better than using a Spectrum). The sound is of really good quality through the TV's speakers. IIRC the Spectrum does not send any sound to the TV, it just makes poor quaility noises from inside the unit. So far I've only switched the white one on to check that I get a green power light.

Last night we played Nemises and Elite on the brown one and they were very good games. Nemises reminded me a bit of Project X. With a 1541 and a XA1541 cable would I be able to load a game from cassette and then save it to a disk? Were most of the games that were released on cassette also released on cartridges?

Me thinks I'll be heading to Ebay soon :-) 8-)

[A4000_Mad]

I'm just looking at the 'Commodore 64 Micro Computer User Manual' that came with the brown one. Someone has rubbed that button out from all of the pages :lol: