Commodore 64

[newbie]

Can anyone help. We have boughta Commodore 64 (yes the original 80's type!) from a local car boot. It fires up and everything but we keep getting multi coloured lines in the background and can go no further than the opening title screen. We have followed the instructions as per the games but still no good. Anyone help or perhaps advise what the problem might be or better still how to play it! Thanks in advance

[Mattk]

Incompatibility with new TV maybe or most likely duff C64.
Was it sold as being in good working order?

[razza]

Bought it ????

[Booldawg]

multi coloured lines? Is this happening when trying to load a game from the cassette drive? If so, sounds fairly normal, this was a feature of the newer 'fast-load' system developed in the mid 80s.

The cassette tapes would contain so many drop-outs I doubt many would load successfully.

Maybe this is the time to learn 6502 assembly language and make your own games!