Subj : Re: BBS client of choice
To   : The Lizard Master
From : Dennisk
Date : Mon Aug 24 2020 22:00:00

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

 TLM>   Re: Re: BBS client of choice
 TLM>   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.

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

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

 TLM> ---TLM

Perhaps you can if you can get the track/sector layout right.  I read somewhere
you couldn't, but I may be mistaken.

Speaking of which, I have a Commodore 1540 Disk Drive and a C64.  Just need the
cable to connect the drive to the C64.  If I can do that, and get disks
formatted on the PC, then I have a way to transfer games from the PC to the
C64.

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