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

[X-otic Computer Systems of San Antonio]

I'm using OpenCBM, it works both on Linux and Windoze...
http://sourceforge.net/projects/opencbm

My problem with Linux seem to be that my parallel port is not on the 
mother board but an add on PCI card.

So far I have figured out how to read and write whole disks...
I need to figure out how to move files within the .D64 images though so 
I can put more than one game on a disk... ;-)

/Fredrik


X-otic Computer Systems of San Antonio wrote:
> 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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