Subj : Re: C64 ClassiX
To   : Merman
From : Andreas Kohlbach
Date : Fri Nov 17 2017 15:53:49

On Fri, 17 Nov 2017 07:10:41 -0800 (PST), Merman wrote:
>
> On Friday, 17 November 2017 04:13:35 UTC, Ed Vance  wrote:
>> I was at a Goodwill Store, in a locked cabinet I saw the words:
>> C64 ClassiX
>> on the edge of something inside the cabinet that looked like a CD Case.
>>
>> I never heard of ClassiX before so when I got home I Searched about it
>> and read some if the Results of the Search and learned the Software was
>> manufactured by a Company in Germany, to run Commodore 64 games on a
>> modern day computer.
>>
>> I was going to ask here if anyone knew about the ClassiX software, but
>> decided to Search on DuckDuckGo first.
>>
>> Does anyone have it, or know something about it?
>>
>> I didn't ask what price the Store was asking for it the day I saw it,
>> and probably won't go back as ask about it since I still have a C=64
>> and enough Floppy Disks with Games on them if ever I wanted to play
>> any of them.
>>
>> The last Game I have played was called Novastorm and it runs on a
>> Compatiable PC not a Commodore PC.
>> And that was a L-O-N-G T-I-M-E ago.
>>
>>
>> ... It's good to be children sometimes and never better than at CHRISTmas.
>
> It's one of a number of UNLICENSED products that appeared, with this
> company also doing Amiga and Spectrum versions. It's a CD with
> approximately 3,000 games and 10,000 SID tunes downloaded from the
> Internet, with emulators and music players for Windows and Amiga.
>
> The content (especially the emulators) are now very out of date. It's
> not worth very much. I got mine for about half what it originally sold
> for, and there are better archives out there.

I agree.

For the OP, since he seems not really want the original, and all these
(also unlicensed) products often also have recent CPUs and run an
emulator for the C64, why not save the money and get an emulator. For the
Commodore 64 there is VICE for example

But if you want hardware, grab a *real* C64 from Goodwill, EBay or where
ever they are offered instead.
--
Andreas
You know you are a redneck if
when you run out of gas, you put gin in the gas tank!

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