Commodore 64 setting up.

jeff_chandler

Hi all.
I recently purchased a Commodore 64, just to re-kindle my younger days. After it arriving in the post I have not got a clue as to how to set this thing up to my LG TV.
All it came with was the power supply and a lead from aerial in TV into the aerial in at the back of the C64. Maybe I'm missing something else?. It's a long time since I last used one of these computers.

Kind regards Jeff.

bengalknights

Plug into the aerial socket then on your tv tune the channel on the aerial output until you see the console

jeff_chandler

I have tried this but the TV is an LG LCD, does this make a difference? I'm not a tech savvy person.

Kind regards Jeff.

DoaM

You need to select the ATV (analogue TV) channels option in the LG menu - if it is available - have the C64 connected and then do a scan.

Don't expect any sort of decent display though ... the C64 comes from a time of CRT PAL system TVs with 695 lines. I recently hooked my old Sega Megadrive up to a 24" LCD TV and whilst the picture displayed the quality was poor - very grainy.

bengalknights

Sorry yes forgot to mention you need to make sure its not in digital mode as DoaM states

On LG usually in Aerial on top right change to Analogue.

knightstyle

Commodore64! That brings back memories of early programming and storing onto a cassette tape!
Best game was Tapper where you had to serve beers to clients in ever increasing speed, plus you could get the can-can girls to dance if you picked up a tip in time, all the drinkers turned to look at them and this gave you more time to serve them!
Those were the days!

Neil_Jones

You need to think about how you would have done it in the days before Freeview or Sky. Your analogue TV of three, later four and five TV stations aired on certain frequencies or channels (ie from Sutton Coldfield it used to be UHF channels 40, 43, 46 and 50 for BBC Two, ITV, BBC One and Channel 4 respectively) so your Channel 3 button would have been tuned to in this case channel 43.

Your Commodore is effectively "airing" on one of the channels when you connect it to the aerial on the TV. You should be able to do a rescan of the Analogue channel listings in a similar fashion to a Freeview setup.

Or failing all of this, you can download the Commodore emulators on the computer instead with none of the 'tape load' errors present

Lumstorm

I have just bought a Commodore 64 myself I will be connecting to a hdmi port using a XRGB-mini Framemeister. Obviously not an option for everyone as Framemeisters cost around £250 to £300 and have to be shipped from Japan, but you can get cheap hdmi adaptors on Ebay or Amazon though they will introduce a lot of lag.

Best cheap method is buying a C64 composite cable available through https://www.retrocomputershack.com/ they have a Ebay store that's open a couple of days a week.

jeff_chandler

Right. I have got it sorted. Visited a local electronics shop who put me right straight away. All I needed was a £6.99 SCART lead with a five pin plug on the other end. The scart goes into the back of the TV and 5 pin rear of C64. I had to select AV and hey presto it worked.

I'm now like a kid again.

Thanks to all those who took the time to reply.
Kind regards Jeff.

forgotmyname

What you need is a CDROM for that C64 with 10000001 games or something like that...

You connected the C64 to the headphone socket on a stereo or CD player and you could load games in a fraction of the time it took on a tape.

Seem to remember i paid a few ?£ for it at the time. Not cheap but technology...

Currently cleaning and retrobrighting some old Commodore stuff. Cannot decide whether to set it all up or just plump for a raspberry pi arcade system??

Lumstorm

forgotmyname wrote: »

What you need is a CDROM for that C64 with 10000001 games or something like that...

You connected the C64 to the headphone socket on a stereo or CD player and you could load games in a fraction of the time it took on a tape.

Seem to remember i paid a few ?£ for it at the time. Not cheap but technology...

Loading games from a SD card using a SD2IEC or a Tapuino would be far more convenient now rather than using a CD-Rom.