Stefano has sent me some great scans of the game Platoon - which I have now added to the site. Take a look - there are so many images of a man being shot in the back that it'll make you want to watch yours! :-)
I loved the text adventure games from Infocom! I thought they were super fun to play, and quite humorous as well. I started with Zork II, but as time went by the games became more and more complex, and eventually moved on from text-only play to include graphics too. I continued playing them throughout the 1990s on a PC. Funnily enough, I never played The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy, but I did read the novel it was based on. Whether you played the game or read the book (or neither) I still think you'll get a kick out of the package and "feelies" for this wonderful game. Take a look!
Last year I watched an old American movie, Battle of the Bulge, which came out in 1965. I thought it was an OK movie, but after watching it I read the Wikipedia page for it and found out that it was full of historical inaccuracies. (I guess I shouldn't have been surprised - this is Hollywood we're dealing with after all!) That made me want to scan my copy of The Battle of the Bulge: Tigers in the Snow that I had. I did so, and have now added those scans to the web site. However, keeping in line with the bad reviews, I see that this game was also panned - this time for its relatively bad graphics and game play. Oh well, you can't win 'em all! At least the package is pretty - so take a look and see what you think.
When I was young my grandparents had a pinball machine in their basement. It was so much fun! I spent hours playing that old, analog machine and really came to love pinball. (They also had a gumball machine - but that's another story!) Years later I remember seeing ads for Pinball Construction Set and thinking how much fun it would be to build your own game. I never got the game when I was younger and in prime Commodore days, but I did buy it on eBay a while ago, and now I have added scans of it to the site! Take a look, and maybe play it - see if you can create the ultimate pinball machine. Enjoy!
Chess - is there a greater board game in the world? I don't think so. I have loved it since I was a small child and my mother taught me to play. When I was a teenager I was ecstatic to finally get a computer chess game and hone my skills while playing against it. Of course that game was Sargon III, and I have now added scans for it to the site. And if you are a chess fan too, then be sure to browse through the user's guide as it comments on many of history's greatest chess games - which are included on the disk!
Happy holiday season everyone! Many years ago, in the late 1980s, I received a great Christmas present: Jumpman Junior! I was super excited, for two reasons: First, Jumpan was my favorite game, so I really wanted to give its sequel a try. And secondly most copies of Jumpman Junior were in the cartridge format - but this one was a disk. I am not sure why, but back then I preferred disk format to cartridge, so I was happy to finally have this game in the format I preferred.
Anyway, I have now added scans of Jumpman Junior. This is from my personal collection, and sadly I long ago got rid of the box for this fine game - so I have only added the manual and disk scans. Hopefully someday I'll be able to find the box again. But until then enjoy the manual for this great sequel to a great game!
I love comic books - I have since I was a child. What does that have to do with this site? Well, I have finally finished my backlog of sets that were sent to me, and have added Stefano's scans of Dr. Doom's Revenge - which includes its own comic book! Not only that, but the instruction manual is in four languages - so hopefully that will be helpful for some people. Check it out today!
Hi everyone - I am back with some new scans after a year and a half since the last set was added! This time we have some beautiful scans of Cinemaware's Rocket Ranger interactive movie. Our fine friend Stefano sent these to me a few years ago, and I am finally getting around to adding them to the site. (Sheesh - I really need to speed things up!) Be sure to check out the scans of the Secret Decoder Wheel and see which country Stefano set it to - I'll give you a hint: it is his own beautiful country!
Two new items of note.
First: I have been working to make this site more privacy focused. As such I have removed all trackers, cookies, ads and affiliate links from the entire site. I figure user privacy is more important than the few bucks I make each year from affiliate links. Plus I am becoming more and more disgusted by all the ads, cookies and trackers on other web sites, and so I thought I'd make this site an example of what I'd like to see on the web.
Second: I have added, deleted and updated several links in the links section of this site. If you haven't visited it in a while then take a look at my favorite retro sites listed there.
OK, a couple of news items:
1. I have completed the transition to responsive pages. This means that every page on this site now works with (and looks good on) smaller screens - like tablets and mobile phones! Since so many people browse the web on their phones now-a-days, hopefully this will make their experience better and introduce awesome Commodore 64 games to more people.
2. I have also added a secure, HTTPS option to the site. This means you can now browse c64sets.com securely and more privately. Try it out at https://www.c64sets.com/ if your browser is not already using it.
I have been in the mood for CP/M on the Commodore 128 lately. Can you tell?! :-) As such I have been playing around with the old text adventure game known as "Adventure" or "Colossal Cave Adventure", and I finally decided to write a how-to for getting and playing it on the C128. This is the latest addition to my Commodore 128 CP/M tutorial and is now live. Check it out!
Now that I have my new page for Commodore 128 stuff, I decided to make a how-to for using CP/M on the x128 emulator. It has taken me a while, and I'll probably add more to it later, but the first draft is now up on the site. If you are interested in the CP/M operating system on the C128 then take a look. (And even though it is specifically for the x128 emulator, the instructions should work on a real C128 with only minor tweaks.)
Enjoy!
I've added a new section to the site: Commodore 128 Stuff! It is in the menu now, so take a look. There are a couple of pages from our site on there, and a few links to other sites as well. It will be an ongoing project, so be sure to check back once in a while and see if there is anything new.
Also, I am still working on making this entire site responsive. I have about 95% of the whole site done now, just a few more one-off set pages need to be updated. If you haven't tried it on your mobile phone then give it a go and see how much nicer it is now!
I have added a couple of new links to some cool Commodore related web sites: "I Still Adore My 64 & 128" and "Commodore Server" Check them out on our links page.
I have also decided that it is time to start making this site responsive, so that users of smaller screen devices like phones and tablets can have a good experience here. That will be a long process to get the whole site changed, but I have updated the main page to be responsive now. Check it out on your small screen today!
I am in the midst of moving c64sets.com over to a new web hosting site. It has been a lot of work, and in the process I am also moving and cleaning up some other web sites that I host. As such I have moved a few retro-computing articles here, and you can view them on the articles page. They are a bit old, so I will be re-doing them eventually, once I am finished with the more important stuff. In the meantime you can check them out.
So, in an effort to help keep myself interested in this site, I have added an "articles" section. You can find it in the menu on the left, and it will list the articles I have written for this site. The articles will be somehow related to Commodore 8 bit computers, and I am hoping that by writing these I will have an excuse to explore more of the things I love.
Anyway, the first article is now posted - a review of Bil Herd's latest book: Back into the Storm: A Design Engineer's Story of Commodore Computers in the 1980s. Take a look and see what you think, and remember to check back every once in a while to see what else I am exploring and writing about!
I have been busy over the past 10 days! Here are the new sets and manual PDFs that I have added since the last update:
Enjoy!
I am back once again! It seems that once I get started then it is easier to keep going and add more fun stuff. Here are the updates I've made in the past couple of weeks:
Be sure to take a look, and while you're doing that I'll add some more things.
Hello everyone, it has been a long time since I have made any updates to this site... but I am still here and I have recently made a few changes. Here is a list of things that I have done:
I have some more things that I am working on, so be sure to watch for those.
I have uploaded the latest scans from Stefano - Infocom's interactive fiction game from 1986: Moonmist. The manuals for this game have some great backstory and beautiful line art - don't miss them!
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