Question: I am very new to C64s and am enjoying repairing them more than using them - lol. I downloaded the game and manual, but the game extension is .D64. I thought the extension has to be .prg? I can put it on an SD card on one of the plug in adapters I have, but I really though it needed to be a .prg? No?
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Thank you! This is exactly what I needed; I am still learning this world (back when I was young, I had Ohio Scientific and not cool stuff like this and was more in to Electronics engineering). I have collected a number of 1541 drives (Flappers and not the twist engage). I really don't see transferring the game (or games) to floppies, but if I did, I am guessing that would have to be done on the C64 itself. If I have an older 90's DOS PC with a 5.25" drive, are there utilities that will allow it to write 5.25" disks? I don't know if single sides drives would be needed or if a higher end 5.25" drive could still write to a lesser format. I only ask because I have a ton of 5.25" floppy disks, both low and high density, and have 3D printed several disk box and have others. It might be nice to be able to do that for the 1980s "feel". I think I could also get the files to the older PC via an XTIDE card.
As far as i know, writting C64 disk with an pc 5.25" drive doesn't work. Once i had a cable someone made for me, to connect a 1541-II via serial port with my 486. Last year i wanted to backup some C64 stuff from my old disks and just bought a XU1541 interface from ebay to connect my 1541-II via USB with my laptop. Worked perfectly. Does this answer your question?