1. You can use an Atari joystick. The C64 joysticks only had one button too (or in the case of the venerable TAC-2, two buttons doing the same thing).
2. It depends. If the screen is flashing it usually means that the game is decrunching to load itself into the C64's memory. If it just stalls on a loading prompt in basic then it might have crashed.
3. LOAD "*",8,1 if it's a disc with just one game. Otherwise type LOAD "$",8 followed by LIST to see the files and then replace the asterisk in the first command with the program you want to run, and erase the ,1 since it's usually not needed when you run software that way.
5. Not for the common C64 or C128. I believe the 128D and the SX-64 had external keyboards though...
7. No options menu but get the C64 reference manual for all that juicy basic stuff. You could try to get hold of GEOS for a graphical enviroment though.
8. Same as above, the reference manual got all the things you need.
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