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

X-otic Computer Systems of San Antonio xcssa at xcssa.org
Fri Sep 26 13:13:59 CDT 2008


The GUI I found works fine but is Windows only,
http://www.jammingsignal.com/gui4cbm4win/
It can copy files as well as whole disks...

If you happen to find a GUI for Linux, let me know...

/Fredrik

X-otic Computer Systems of San Antonio wrote:
> 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
>>>
>>>       



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