need c64 help

[seizurebot1011]

first of all how do i download programs to my disk drive

all the sights say i can find out easily online but i cant find it

aslo what is a good music program

please help me

[desiv]

What type of programs??

 

Individual? Disk images? Compressed?

 

What type of hardware do you have? PC?

 

What type of connection from the PC to the 64? X1541??

 

I think once you have the proper equipment/cable(s) it's not too bad, but if not, it's not actually that easy if you're just starting out...

 

desiv

[Nukey Shay]

There are generally two ways of getting the PC to emulate older systems' hardware...connecting a cable from the PC to the computer, or using the PC with a real C64 drive to create actual floppies that the C64 can read. I recommend that you check out Lemon64's forums to step you through those. Here's a thread pertaining to this question for example...be sure to follow the links.

http://www.lemon64.com/forum/viewtopic.php?t=7762

[Ze_ro]

Check here for lots of information on the X1541 cables. They're pretty much the only real way of transferring files to/from C64 disks. They're fairly easy to make, but they also sell them somewhere at that site as well.

 

There's no way to read/write C64 disks without extra hardware.

 

--Zero