Posted 08 October 2024 - 11:30 PM
As listed I have a lot of games and stuff from my Commodore days and would like to know if they can be copied to cd/dvd/flash drive to use in my windows 7 unit
Thanks
Ed D
Edited by buddy215, 08 October 2024 - 11:43 PM.
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Posted 09 October 2024 - 03:38 AM
I recently had some experience of this when I came across the original 35" (not 5.25" I was technically advanced !) floppies I had done some CAD work on back in the early '90's. A friend lent me a floppy disk reader which Device Manager assured me was working but refused to show up in Feil Explorer. Switching over to Linux I could not only see the files in the file manager I was able to copy them over to a folder on my Windows (C:\) drive.
This struck me as odd since these files were all created on one or other computers running16 bit Win 3.x but if you have trouble finding, reading or running these dislks try it in Linux.
Chris Cosgrove
Posted 09 October 2024 - 05:19 AM
+1 for using Linux to read legacy disks. (MSFT removed native support for FAT16 a little while back)
I was just looking at my old Commodore system in the garage yesterday; Good times 
Posted 09 October 2024 - 06:19 PM
no longer have the computer or the drives though .-
To buddy 215, that was an alternate email not an ad
Posted 11 October 2024 - 10:19 AM
You don't say what computer it was, but I know a lot of Commodore 64 and Amiga games are available for download from places like archive.org (for example the TOSEC archives are vast collections of software from well known, to extremely obscure old systems). You would need an emulator to run them on. This might be easier than manually copying your old disks.
Edited by jonuk76, 12 October 2024 - 01:26 AM.
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