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Trumba's C64 Page

Commodore Ring

Author: Everlasting COMMODORE 64, first computer of mine and of many other computer scouts. There are few of us trying to prevent falling C64 to the darknes of ignorance....
Here you can find: My masterpiece on how to connect 1.44Mb floppy drive to C64. There are some links to pages where you can find C64-emulators for PC and games (who can forget them), there will be some program for conversion (from C64 file format to T64, D64...).

Connecting PC & C64

How to connect 1.44Mb floppy drive to C64 - find out more info about my masterpiece (this is the hardest way for connecting PC & C64).This piece of hardware (Disk Demon) allows you to easily transfer data between C64 and PC using ordinary 1.44Mb PC-diskette. Detail description of hardware and software used to accomplish that.

PC2C64 - connecting PC and C64 with parallel cable using bidirectional port - this is easiest way for connecting: you need only parallel cable to connect and bidirectional parallel port (with PS/2-EPP ability) on your PC. Characteristic of this project is safe (utilizes handshake lines and so-called CHECK-SUM check) and simple 8-bit (whole hardware is one parallel cable) transfer of data between PC and C64. Additional data about parallel cable get on my electronic page.

Utilities for PC & C64

PC:

Convert tools - once you transfer files (games) from C64 to the PC you may want to convert them into format which can be recognize by every C64 emulator.
Con_t64 converts C64 native  files into T64 (turbo tape) format which is supported by
every emulator.
Con_PC64 converts C64 native files into PC64 format supported by PC64 emulator (file extension *.p00).

C64:

Basic 2 ASCII (BtoaC200) - tool for converting BASIC program into ASCII text which can be then transfer to PC and print-out or whatever. Note: this is C64-native code so you must transfer it on C64 before using. There is source code (assembler) in ASCII format.

ASCII text editor (C64WORD) - it is conceptually similar to the MS EDIT text editor from DOS which means it has some 'advanced'  features like selecting text, copying or deleting selected text.
It can recognize a different character sets (C64,USA,CRO), it can read files bigger then 64Kb, also it can convert ASCII text in C64 BASIC format. Archive includes C64 exe and sc. code.
 

Games

These are my favorite games:
 

R.I.S.K. - my favorite game on C64. You are space fighter fighting vicious aliens. Wizard Of War - best game for two players ever invented!

 
Elite - I think that everybody knows what is it.
A.C.E. - my best avio-simulation on C64. Note: it seems that this version doesn't work on CCS64.
 
 

 Death Ride - my favorite arcade.  Thunder Cats - another arcade with great music

   

Uridium - concord iron,zinc,silver spacestations. David Magic - legendary flipper

 

C64 emulators

There are only two of them which are known to me and they are (download sites):

  • CCS64 - very best emulator for C64. 'Must have' for every C64 freak.
  • VICE - can run on any PC OS platform (Unix, MS-DOS, Win95/NT, OS/2,..)

 

Links