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

Fri Sep 26 09:54:28 CDT 2008

My "new" computer running Ubuntu does not have parallel ports on the 
mother board so I added a PCI card with two Parallel ports.
I originally did this to be able to try out CPLD/FGPA since they need 
parallel ports to be programmed.
However OpenCBM in Linux seem to have the problem you describe, they 
have an odd interrupt 22 and an odd address $DC88...

However the "old" Win XP machine have the parallel port on the mother 
board at $378 and IRQ 7 and works wituout problems...

I just found a GUI that is supposed to be able to copy files in stead of 
whole disks for OpenCBM, seem to be Windows only though...
I'll try it out over lunch... ;-)

/Fredrik

X-otic Computer Systems of San Antonio wrote:
> Wow I might have to try that software out. In regards to the Parallel  
> port, are you using a PCI card due to the weird on board parallel  
> board issues? My X1541 cable requires a particular parallel port in  
> order to work correctly and many of the new motherboards don't have  
> the correct parallel port.
>
> Tim
>
> On Sep 26, 2008, at 8:45 AM, X-otic Computer Systems of San Antonio  
> wrote:
>
>   
>> 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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