Howdy Fellow Commodore Users!

Normally I don't get overly excited over news regarding emulator usage concerning the C64, but news of Gamebase64 coming out for version 5, got me a little bit excited.

For those not into emulation or who haven't heard of Gamebase64, it is a wonderful tool on one hand, and a wonderful collection of commercial games on the other hand. I have used the database to acquaint myself with a variety of programs I've never heard of before. With it, you can look up a game title, find out it's published date, what company made it, see a few screen capures of the game, and even check out it's documentation of maps, instructions, or box cover art. And for those who also look for the games to run in their emulators, those games are also available in the download.

Our librarian has version 3 of Gamebase64. It was a series of 4 CDs of data. I don't recall if it was ever announced, but since the latest version5 came out, I thought I would mention it to those who have been looking for such a collection. Unfortunately, access to acquiring the collection isn't easy at the moment. It is only available on the internet thru a service called eMule. I won't go into much detail about that service, but I will mention that the collection is rather large. Even tho it is broken down into 3 archives, it is still over 3 gigabytes of data to download.

Here is the announcement that initially caught my attention from Gamebase64's website: http://www.gb64.com/

Gamebase 64 V5 is online! 25 years ago the machine that graced our lives appeared!

In order to celebrate the 25th anniversary of the Commodore 64, a lot of time and effort has been devoted to our project over the past months and finally, after overcoming technical problems and eradicating persistent bugs, we present you today the GameBase64 Collection V05 in all its online glory!

The database contains 20000 entries with full support of the High Voltage SID Collection (HVSC #47).

The collection includes:

over 2900 games with linked "Original Tape",

over 2000 games with linked "Original Disk",

over 200 games with linked "Original Cartridge",

over 5200 games with linked cover scan,

and lots of other Extras.

Enjoy!

For those wanting to see the collection, I'm sure it will be presented soon at one of our meetings.

Keep on Commodoring!