Getting C64 disk images

The simplest way is to have a PC running Star Commander with an X1541 type cable, and plug a 1541 disk drive into that. Unfortunately, this doesn't help you much on a Mac, and (as a fellow Mac owner) there's not too many options for this. You could try a serial transfer by connecting the Mac's serial port to the 64's user port using an RS-232 interface and appropriate converters, but the speed would be limited to a max of 2400bps (unless you used some sort of UART or ACIA cartridge) and it may not even work with your serial port device. You could also try saving it to a 3.5" DOS-formatted floppy on the Mac, and use Little Red Reader on the 64 to read the files off, but you'll need a 1581 or FD-2000 to do this and that can be hard to find/pricey. Eventually, since I have to do this often for development work and I got given a cheap Toshiba 486 laptop, I turned it into the disk image station and use Star Commander and an X1541 cable under DOS. Old 486 and early Pentium PCs are so cheap these days you might as well just get one and then it takes care of the whole problem. To get files from the Mac to the 64, I save them to a DOS-formatted floppy and sneaker-net them to the laptop, which then saves them to the 1541 disk. Currently there is no way to use an X1541 cable on a Mac, even with a parallel port adapter. Try http://www.centsible.com/ and http://www.vintagecomputer.com/ -- I've done business with Vintage Computer personally, btw, and they're very reputable. I have also heard good things about Centsible. -- ----------------------------- personal page: http://www.armory.com/~spectre/ -- Cameron Kaiser, Point Loma Nazarene University * ckaiser(a)stockholm.ptloma.edu -- FORTUNE: Make your own advancement opportunity. Blackmail your boss. -------