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The Epyx Fast Load is a floppy disk fast loader cartridge made by American software company Epyx in 1984 for the Commodore 64 home computer.It was programmed by Epyx employee Scott Nelson, who was originally a programmer for Starpath [1] and later designed the Epyx Vorpal fastloading system for the company's games.
This is a list of games for the Commodore 64 personal computer system, sorted alphabetically. See Lists of video games for other platforms. Because of the length of the list, it has been broken down to two parts: List of Commodore 64 games (A–M) List of Commodore 64 games (N–Z)
Invade-a-Load was a fast loader for cassette-based games which not only accelerated the loading of blocks from the tape, but also contained a mini-game (in this case, a clone of Space Invaders) that could be played while waiting for the main game to finish loading. This initial minigame was loaded in under a minute, providing entertainment ...
Ghostbusters by Activision, 1984.. By 1985, games were estimated to make up 60 to 70% of Commodore 64 software. [7] Due in part to its advanced sound and graphic hardware, and to the quality and quantity of games written for it, the C64 became better known as a gaming and home entertainment platform than as a serious business computer.
Download QR code; Print/export ... move to sidebar hide. The Commodore 64. This is a list of game titles released for the Commodore 64 personal computer system ...
Support from games companies was limited, as many were unconvinced that the C64GS would be a success in the console market. Ocean Software was the most supportive, offering a wide range of titles, some C64GS cartridge-based only, offering features in games that would have been impossible on cassette-based games, others straight ports of games for the original C64. [5]
The Final Cartridge III was a popular extension cartridge which was created for the Commodore 64 and Commodore 128, produced by the Dutch company Riska B.V. Home & Personal Computers. It offered a fast loader , increasing the speeds of the disk drive, and a freezer , allowing the program execution to be stopped to be resumed later.
For the Commodore 64, Epyx made the Fast Load cartridge which enables a fivefold speedup of floppy disk drive accesses through Commodore's very slow serial interface. Another hardware product was the Epyx 500XJ Joystick, which uses high-quality microswitches and a more ergonomic form factor than the standard Atari CX40 joystick while remaining ...