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From: howell_ma@movies.enet.dec.com (Mark Howell)
Subject: Re: C64 Infocom games to .dat files? Help...
Message-ID: <1993Jun6.175152.23053@nntpd.lkg.dec.com>
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Organization: Digital Equipment Corporation
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Date: Sun, 6 Jun 1993 23:55:32 GMT
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In article <stjasink.41.739216523@cs1.uct.ac.za>, stjasink@cs1.uct.ac.za (SJ TJASINK) writes...
>I found a posting somewhere not so long ago that said that you could convert 
>your Commodore 64 Infocom games into a .dat file that could be used on other 
>machines. I got the c64.to.dat file that was on ftp.gmd.de and compiled 
>it... everything look wonderful. Then it came to running it. It looked for a 
>file on my hard drive instead of trying to read the floppy disk. Yes, I did 
>think that it would be a miracle if my pc could read the c64 disk, but I do 
>believe in miracles. :) So... how exactly do I get this done? Is there some 
>other program that I have to use to create a file from my c64 disk and then 
>use this, or am I not using this c64todat properly? Hoping someone can 
>help... :) Thanks.

You need to get a disk image of your C64 Infocom disk onto a PC (or any other
machine that can run c64todat). You can do this either by writing a simple
program to copy each disk sector over the RS232 link (if you have one), or write
the sectors onto a PC formatted disk. The last option only works if you have a
1571 disk drive on the C64. The 1571 is capable of reading and writing sectors
on a PC formatted disk.

Mark...
