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

X-otic Computer Systems of San Antonio xcssa at xcssa.org
Fri Sep 26 13:32:42 CDT 2008


Copying individual files over - man that's pretty cool!

On Sep 26, 2008, at 1:13 PM, X-otic Computer Systems of San Antonio  
wrote:

> 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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