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Several popular utilities were sold that contained custom routines to defeat most copy-protection schemes in commercial software. (Appropriately, [[Fast Hack'em]]—probably the most popular example—was itself widely pirated.). Tapes could be copied with special software, but often it was simply done by [[dubbing (music)|dubbing]] the cassette in a dual deck tape recorder, or by relying on an [[Action Replay]] cartridge to freeze the program in memory and save to cassette. Cracked games could often be copied manually without any special tools.
==Il retrocomputing==
==Retrocomputing efforts==
Il materiale magnetico su cassetta e disco si degrada ad una velocità allarmaete. Per conservare il software, furono effettuate prove di copia su materiale che possa garantire una vita più lunga. C'è anche un altro progetto per conservare la documentazione, manuali, articoli di riviste e altro materiale (come i contenitori dei giochi).
The magnetic tapes and disks upon which home computer software were stored are decaying at an alarming rate. In order to preserve game software and information, efforts are underway to copy from these degrading media onto fresh media which will help ensure a long life for the software and make it available for emulation and archiving. In addition, there are other efforts to archive Commodore 64 documentation, software manuals, magazine articles, and other nostalgia (such as software packaging artwork, game screenshots, and Commodore 64 TV commercials).
L'organizzazione ''GameBase 64 (GB64)'' fornisce un database online, la quale contiene informazioni su più di 18.800 titoli.
The ''GameBase 64 (GB64)'' organization has an online database of information, which at version 4 holds information for 18,800 unique game titles. The database is still growing as new information comes to light. The GoodGB64 variant of Cowering's [[Good Tools]] allows users to audit their C64 game collections using the GameBase64 database (the 3.0 version of GoodGB64 lists 17,067 disk image files).
Ci sono vari strumenti per trasferire dati dai dischi floppy del 1541 su PC.
There are tools available to transfer original 1541 floppy discs to or from the PC. [http://sta.c64.org/sc.html The Star Commander] is a [[MS-DOS|DOS]]-based tool, [http://www.lb.shuttle.de/puffin/cbm4linux/ cbm4linux] is a Linux tool, and [http://www.trikaliotis.net/cbm4win cbm4win] is a Windows tool to transfer data from an original floppy drive to the PC, or vice versa, using a simple [http://sta.c64.org/xcables.html X-cable]. There are also tools available, [http://www.64hdd.com/index.html 64HDD], to allow your C64 to directly load D64 software stored on your PC using the same cables.
* [http://sta.c64.org/sc.html The Star Commander] è uno strumento che gira su [[MS-DOS|DOS]]
* [http://www.lb.shuttle.de/puffin/cbm4linux/ cbm4linux] gira sotto [[Linux]]
* [http://www.trikaliotis.net/cbm4win cbm4win] è la versione per Windows che utilizza un semplice cavo [http://sta.c64.org/xcables.html X-cable].
* [http://www.64hdd.com/index.html 64HDD] permette al C64 di carciare dischi D64 direttamente dal PC utilizzando il cavo X-cable.
InCi addition,sono thereanche ismolti nowemulatori ache growingpermettono numberdi ofeseguire emulatorsprogrammi available,per which allow the use of an emulatedil C64 onsu modernhardware computing hardwaremodreno. The mostI popularpiù andfamosi compatible aresono [[VICE]], which is free and runs on most modern as well as some older platforms; [http://www.computerbrains.com CCS64], which is a [[shareware]] program available for Windows; ande [http://www.infinite-loop.at/Power64/index.html Power64], which has versions for Mac OS X and OS 9.
Also the [[Quantum Link]] service has been reconstructed as [[Quantum Link Reloaded]]. It can be accessed with a real Commodore 64, or through the VICE emulator.
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