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Its colour pallette is sharper and closer to the C64's original than CCS64, plus it's far easier to use and can save more than one save-state file at a time, as *.VSF - as opposed to CCS64's solitary FREEZE.C64 file which is very easy to overwrite - the same problem that the SPectrum emulator, Warajevo, suffers from. VICE, in its Windoze point-and-start version, WinVICE, is the one I'd go for these days. Two C64 emulators that are recommended are CCS64 and VICE. The C64's colours do have the advantage of showing movable walls in a slightly different colour to the rest of the scenery.Īs the C64 had no memory variation (like the 48K/128K options of the Spectrum 128, +2 and +3) the decent sound is always available. The nasties with blue outlines in Rick 2 look very odd indeed.

None of the other versions of Rick 1, even the 16-bits, do this.Īs mentioned above, the graphics are more colourful than the Spectrum version and there is none of the Speccy's infamous colour clash however, whereas the sprite for Rick is built with single-pixel graphics and looks remarbably close to the 16-bit version, and the background is single-pixel and two-colour, the nasties and foreground scenery are limited to the rather ugly double-pixel graphics.

This version of Rick 1 was also notable for being the only one where Rick jumps out of the screen when he dies. The C64's versions of the two Rick games are easily identifiable by the SID sounds, the many and varied but slightly dull colours, the bizzare mixture of single and double-pixel graphics, and the low-budget intro screens.
