Subj : Re: BBS client of choice
To   : Moondog
From : The Lizard Master
Date : Fri Aug 21 2020 09:14:51

  Re: Re: BBS client of choice
  By: Moondog to The Lizard Master on Thu Aug 20 2020 09:35 pm

 >  >  >  TLM> Man, I don't even remember how I used to do this, but when the
 >  >  >  TLM> .D64 format first came out there was a converter back to
 >  >  >  TLM> commodore disk image.  Then you could unzip it and write it to
 >  >  >  TLM> floppy.  There is 1 a way to do this though.
 >
 >  >  > Sure would be interested in knowing how that could be done..  I'll
 >  >  > have t see if there's a way of using dd in Linux to write a Commie
 >  >  > compatable 3 1/2" disk.
 >
 >  > There has to be something like this for linux right?  From what I
 >  > remember I you wanted.  That included copy protected back ups.
 >
 >  > ---TLM
 >
 > IIRC Commodore uses a different track for whatever it calls their fat table,
 > so formatting a CBM floppy on a PC may not be possible.

You still format it as a CMB Floppy.  There are other ways, but I would open up NovaTerm, connect my 1200 baud modem by direct phone line, hit ATA one one ATDT on the other (or something like that), start an upload using Ymodem on the PC, start a download on the C64.

This is something I did a bunch of times, it might not have happened exactly like that I'm going back a number of years.  But you can absolutely turn a D64 into the Commodore Zip format, transfer it over, and run it native.

---TLM

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