Subj : Re: BBS client of choice
To   : The Lizard Master
From : Dennisk
Date : Fri Aug 21 2020 08:42:00

-=> The Lizard Master wrote to Weatherman <=-

 TLM>   Re: Re: BBS client of choice
 TLM>   By: Weatherman to The Lizard Master on Wed Aug 19 2020 04:16 pm

 >  TLM> Man, I don't even remember how I used to do this, but when the .D64
 >  TLM> format first came out there was a converter back to commodore disk zip
 >  TLM> image.  Then you could unzip it and write it to floppy.  There is 100%
 >  TLM> a way to do this though.
 >
 > Sure would be interested in knowing how that could be done..  I'll have to
 > see if there's a way of using dd in Linux to write a Commie compatable 3
 > 1/2" disk.

 TLM> There has to be something like this for linux right?  From what I
 TLM> remember I had a dos command back in the day that would change and .d64
 TLM> into the four ! commodore zip files.  Then you could transfer those to
 TLM> disk, unzip them, and boom you have whatever you wanted.  That included
 TLM> copy protected back ups.

I've seen you can do it, but you need the Commodore 64 disk drive connected to
the PC to do it.  PC floppy drives if I recall correctly, aren't able to read
the specific track/sector layout and format that the 1541 drive laid out.


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