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

[X-otic Computer Systems of San Antonio]

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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