Getting c64 games on 5 1/4 floppies

[Video_Invader]

Is there anyone who can help me get some games like Hunchback, Hunchback II, Pac-man, Pitfall, where in the world is carmen sandiego, etc. onto some blank disks? I have several blanks but cannot afford to buy any games on evil bay.

[Hatta]

If you're on a budget, the best thing would be to build an X1541 type cable, and connect your 1541 to your PC. The exact type of cable will depend on the hardware you have available.

 

If you don't have a 1541 drive, you might be able to use an old PC instead.

 

Better options for the long term would be buying an SD reader for your C64. But those run $50-150, depending on the features you want.

[Video_Invader]

I have 2 1541 drives. I forgot about the cable. Where would I find the games?

[amiman99]

http://www.c64.com/

[Video_Invader]

Man this is great. Thanks for the info. Is there a place where I can order the cable and how do I get the games from a regular pc to the floppy?

[Hatta]

This guy builds cables to sell. You can dump the disk images with OpenCBM or Star Commander.

 

Hope you have plenty of 5.25" DSDD floppies.

[Video_Invader]

I have several. Most likely enough to he wha I want at least. Thanks for the big help! Now to figure which cable I need.

[Fratzengeballer]

The best thing you could do is to get one of these

 

http://store.go4retro.com/zoomfloppy/

 

You hook up your floppy to usb on your pc. The best you can get as "cable"

 

[Hatta]

If you're going to spend $45 on an adaptor, I'd really recommend spending a little more and getting a uIEC. That will mostly free you from floppies, except for uncracked copy protected games, which you can dump to disk from the 64 with d64it.

[Video_Invader]

Whatever works. I want to keep the original feel by using floppies.

[Charlie_]

I use a ZoomFloopy and it works great for making disks from NIB and D64 files.

[Tempest]

The best thing you could do is to get one of these

 

http://store.go4retro.com/zoomfloppy/

 

You hook up your floppy to usb on your pc. The best you can get as "cable"

Oooo! Interesting. I do something similar on my Apple II using ADT Pro and a ethernet card. I didn't realize something similar existed for the C-64. I might have to look into this.

[Video_Invader]

Sounds cool. Got lucky and picked up a few disks like star trek, 3 stooges, gauntlet.

[dr. kwack]

I need to look into this as well. I recently got a 64C and 1541 up and running and there are just too many games I would like to get/try that i can't find or afford.

 

Also would come in handy for these... http://www.gtw64.co.uk/ this is "games that weren't" for the C64. Very cool. I really want to try Space Ace (only one level) on the 64!!

[+frankodragon]

I used to use Star Commander with an older machine. Also for downloading games and other programs, try this site- http://arnold.c64.org/

[dustfilledhobo]

If you're going to spend $45 on an adaptor, I'd really recommend spending a little more and getting a uIEC. That will mostly free you from floppies, except for uncracked copy protected games, which you can dump to disk from the 64 with d64it.

 

I second this, I love my uIEC.

[Fratzengeballer]

What you have to understand is that a sd2uiec is no floppy substitute, it is like a Harddisc. But the real floppy has logic that can be programmed and is used on every non-kernal using loader. What does that mean for the user? Well, you won't have any troubles with onefiled games, there are a lot of them BUT most multiloader will not work at all. There are some patched ones ok, but generally 90%+ of all cracked or original copies will not work as they use altered loader routines to speed up the depacker load of the files or just the load.

 

If you have jiffy dos in your computer then sd2iec is really fast at loading single files.

 

 

If you want to have a real 100% substitute that emulates the floppy then there are just 2 possibilities

 

1541u2 or the chameleon.

 

Most people arent aware of the fact that sd2iec is no 1541 emulator, it is just a "stupid" piece of hardware with heaps of space. A nice tool for daily work but no equivalent of a 1541.