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

[X-otic Computer Systems of San Antonio]

What are you using on Windows XP to get all this to work? My X1541  
cable doesn't work on anything newer than Win98 :/

Tim

On Sep 26, 2008, at 1:19 AM, X-otic Computer Systems of San Antonio  
wrote:

> 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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