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

[X-otic Computer Systems of San Antonio]

Robert,

I got one of these from E-bay,
http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=380067128142

So far I haven't gotten it to work in Ubuntu but that is hopefully just 
a setup problem.
I did work in Win XP on one of my dusty old machines so I'm copying some 
games now... ;-)

As long as the disks are not copy protected I should be able to make 
.d64 images for you.

/Fredrik

X-otic Computer Systems of San Antonio wrote:
> While we're on the subject of the Commodore 64.....
>
> This November will mark the 20th anniversary of the announcement of Commodore Magazine's and MicroProse's "Red Storm Rising" Ultimate Challenge Contest.
>
> I was living in Wiesbaden, West Germany at the time and I really loved what MicroProse was doing on the Commodore 64. When I found out about the contest, I asked for the necessary paperwork so I could enter.
>
> Basically, you had to place in the top 15 entrants to make the next level of the contest (deadline was late March 1989). From there, you were interviewed by phone (which was interesting because of where I was at the time) and ten of those 15 made it to the final level (done on May 1, 1989). From there you would get the Battle Disks and try to get as far as possible in two hours. Winner would get a trip to Scotland where some of the subs featured in the game were stationed.
>
> I entered twice with my second attempt being much higher than my first. I managed to get into the top 15. Then I was selected for the final 10. After all was said and done I finished eighth. Although I didn't finish as high as I wanted, I was pretty proud of my effort.
>
> I got the library of current (for that time) MicroProse games. Unfortunately, they were the same titles I already owned including, oddly enough, another copy of "Red Storm Rising". I also received an autographed (by Tom Clancy) Red Storm Rising poster and game manual.
>
> And I also got to keep my Battle Disks. As you would imagine, they are the prized jewels in my C64 games collection (although I don't know if they still work).
>
> When I mentioned this at another website I had somebody ask about uploading it for others to try out. But there's one problem: how?
>
> I need to get the data from a C64 disk to either a PC or Mac so it can be used with either emulators or transferred to floppies for use with original hardware.
>
> Anybody have any ideas?
>
> --Robert Allen Rusk (RARusk)
>
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