My Commodore 64 is running slow! Need help!
 

Lately whenever I play Duck Hunt the birds are flying way too slow and appear to be winded. Any help would be appreciated. :)

Did you check the floppy drive

Are you burning wood or coal for the boiler?

If you can get the hamster on the wheel to run faster, you'll generate more electricity and your commodore should run faster!

I think the problem is low memory. Your 16k may need to be boosted to 48k, like an Apple II.

Maybe log on to your AOL dial up account and see if you can find some technical help.

Remember this?
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Does anybody have any healthier ducks they're not using? The computer runs fine. Mario is running as fast as always.

OMG I did not think there were any of those still running. Seriously, you may have a collectable on your hands. I would try to sell this to a collector and buy a new laptop or tablet, and one of the Coleco/Nintendo, etc game collections and play your heart out.

In a previous life I built my first 2 computers by hand, built the expansion interface for my TRS80, and did custom hardware and software design for a while. I do not have any idea where you would go for help with your problem. You could try a google search for "commodore repair" and see what you get.
Good luck, just my thoughts.

Try Google for the answer to your question? It is an amazing source of info to technical problems.

A second solution is to seriously upgrade your computer. :smiley:

Sounds like your C64 is running afowl.

I have a brand new Commodore 64 in the box that I will be willing to sell you to replace your slow one

Be careful which computer tech you use. Some of them are quacks.

I just remembered. Whenever my grandfathers tv was on the fritz he would whack it on the side. I'm going to try this and hope it doesn't upset the ducks too much.

Now that's a funny post.

You've neglected to use the voice interface. Try yelling "faster" at it a few times.

My Commodore system is still up and running for the grand kids when they visit. I hate to think what I paid for it in 1985.

Wow! We bought ours in 1984. I remember how absolutely thrilled I was that I could print something.

Wow, that brings back memories. In my first programming class we used TRS 80s, aka trash 80s.

And still boots to the "READY." prompt in 3 seconds...

I still have an Apple II+, an Apple IIGS and a Mac II that are boxed up.

I also have an Apple II User's Manual autographed by Steve Wozniak.

Does anyone think there is a market for these?

I bet you could get a pretty penny! There are people who collect just about anything. I remember I spent the big bucks and got one with a whole 20k hard drive. Never thought I could use that much memory. I used a word processing program called Volkswriter and printed my college papers on a daisy chain printer. I did my charts on a plotter. I was the queen of the pie charts, in color no less. Seems like a hundred years ago.

$595.00

I just heard on the news today that 2.3 million people are still paying AOL for dial up service.

Look on EBAY for prices. I did no find buyers for my Commodore Amigas so recycled them when we moved down. Hated to part with them and hard drive and video sync that I used to title my videos I edited by copying from tape to tape. Now all done on Computer with Adobe Premiere Elemens. Also ditched a box that did video enhancments and wipes. So, So much. Still held on to CED and Laser discks and slides dating back to 1952 my father took. Have scanner and need to dupe more video VHS tapes to DVD, did not keep Cartrivision.

When I first started work on Computers, used punchcardsand mag tape.