Can you tell me about these Commodore 64's

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Nice buy! The other posts have explained what these are fairly well. What appears to be a button on the top one is interesting, that is a hack of some sort. I'd guess it is an IEC(floppy port) reset, but you will probably have to test yourself to find out.

Neither are rare or valuable as the C64 is the #1 selling computer of all time having sold in the ballpark of 20 million units, there are plenty of them out there still. A clean "breadbox" C64 like the top one is more sought than the 64C despite being more common.

Now you need a composite monitor, a 1541 and a XA1541 cable :-)

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A4000_Mad wrote:

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?

I really don't really know how many games were released on cartridge. The X?1541 cable is to hook a 1541 to a modern PC parallel port, to access the drive in Windows or Linux using Star Commander or OpenCBM. You can download D64 images and write them to a real floppy.

BTW when I say X?1541 I mean there are many different models.
X1541 is the original, only good with really old PCs.
Then there is XE1541, XA1541, XM1541 and a ton of variants and parallel supplemental adapters. Without getting confusing to a new user I'd just say get an XA1541, it will probably work best for you if you have a modern PC with a Parallel port.

If you want to back up a game from cassette to floppy, you will need a freezer. You may find a Retro Replay, Action Replay or Icepic etc second hand or you can wait for the MMC Replay which will be out soon. All of these freezers will allow you to load the game into memory, *freeze* it and save to floppy. Note this will only work with single load games.

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Nlandas wrote:

swift240 wrote:
No wrong it was 30 million units sold.

Mike.

Hmmmm, well that would be over 17 Million units wouldn't it.  :getmad:

No one knows the exact number, not even Jack Tramiel. The numbers are probably close to 30 million.

According to the Guinness Book of World Records, the Commodore 64 is the best-selling computer of all time. About 30 million were sold between its launch in 1982 and its "commercial decline" in 1993, when it was discontinued.