[XCSSA] "Red Storm Rising" Ultimate Challenge Battle Disks

[X-otic Computer Systems of San Antonio]

On Wednesday 03 September 2008 09:25:50 pm X-otic Computer Systems of San 
Antonio wrote:
> While the C64Games site is not a bad site what I am really looking for is a
> way to connect a 1541 or 1541-II drive to either a PC or Mac so the data
> can be transferred to the computer for archival or distribution purposes.

Well.. first.. The preferred way of hooking a 1541 floppy drive to a PC is via 
the serial port.  Remember.. all C64 drives were serial devices (kind of like 
RS485, but just 5v).  Here's the cable to make to do this:
	http://sta.c64.org/x1541.html


> The Catweasel, although it would be cool to have for my Amiga 2000, is too
> hard to acquire.

They have them for PCs also.  That's what most people do now.. hook up strange 
floppies (Amgia, old Mac, etc) to PCs via catweasle.

BTW... 
Archiving old C64 game disk images aren't doing to do you much good for those 
commercially copyrighted games like RSR.  It's because they used all kinds of 
analog, digital, and induced error forms of copy protection that had to 
actually be encountered (in the original floppy in may cases) in the actual 
1541 drive.  They used the drive's advanced logic (dedicated 6502 + RAM + 
ROM) and error correction to "trick" the system into not loading from 
copies.. but only originals.  This was a blessing (for the SW houses)... but 
a curse for C64 users who wanted t archvie their stuff.

So in short.. if you're wanting to archvie a bunch of old games.. that's not 
the best way to do it.  But those cables ARE the best way to interface live 
1541 to emulator software on a PC....

Hope that helps Robert.

Tweeks