Actually, the driver is not that bad.
I recently tested a large amount of games in both floppy and cartridge format, and I was pleasantly suprised to see that compatibility is better than I expected. It definitely shows promise. It took many MESS drivers quite a while to get up to speed, and look at them now - many of them are just as good, if not better, than dedicated standalone emulators.
There are several ways to run c64 games in MAME, obviously dependant on the format they came in.
If you have disk images in .d64 format, you can run those by entering 'mame c64 -flop1 /path/to/file.d64'. You will also need to enter the floppy load command in the emulated c64 (load "*",8,1), just like you would on a real machine, which I assume you're familiar with. Luckily, you can have MAME enter this command for you, using the autoboot_command function. The easiest way to do this is to create a c64.ini file in your mame ini folder, and entering these two lines:
autoboot_delay 2
autoboot_command "\nLOAD\"*\",8,1\n"
From then on, MAME will automatically enter the command for you. The only thing left to do is to use the 'run' command to start it.
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