Commodore 64 disk assistance

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Hellooooo. I broke out my commodore 64 and tried to play my might and magic book 1 game. I own a retail version but i do not think it works anymore. It fails to load. Im afraid the disks are bad and I can see rings in the magnetic disk. Since another retail copy is going for ludicrous amounts. I was gonna keep the original disks and hopefully seek help here. does anyone have the ability to write me a 5.25 disk of Might and Magic book 1 sides A and B. And a second disk sides c and d? i dont have sd2iec and not sure if use it much if i bought it. Thanks!
 
Sorry bruv, never went the Commodore route, and sold off my old Apple //e hardware (well, scrapped it) years ago.

If I had only known. My old friend Rich Shore who ran NETWITS on Compu$erve BITD had one, but I've lost track of him.

He did a Doctor Who theme song in the C64 which would put a TARDIS on the screen while playing the theme music from the 1970's. If the sound chip wasn't healthy (and a lot of them weren't) he said it sounded like "elephant wet dreams" at the end.

Better days.
 
Hi, I can't help much either, but if this were an Atari 800 we were talking about you could go online find a Disk emulator that uses an SD card for around $50, then download the entire catalog of software for it...

How is that for a run-on sentence.

You can probably find the same for C64
 
Sd2iec is a pretty good option. Not having to use floppy disks might make you use the machine more. Some games don't like the SD2iEC, however, and won't load properly. If you've got a raspberry pi, you can make your own, more or less cycle accurate floppy emulator with a small PCB from ribit.se and an SD card with the image required to boot the pi into disk drive emulator mode.
 
The Kung Fu Flash cart is a pretty good option to be able to load games via SD card and then it plugs into your cartridge port if you don't mind using a newer piece of tech. You copy the disk image over to the SD, put the SD into the flash cart, then plug in the cartridge to the cartridge port on the c64. You can find pretty much any game ever made online as a d64 disk image.

You can buy them on ebay or other places - here's one of the first links that pops-up on google:
https://www.8bitclassics.com/product/kung-fu-flash-for-the-commodore-64/
 
I've got a C64 I haven't gotten out in a while... last time I did, I had spotty performance with a lot of disks. My understanding is that the 1541 drives have some common issues with age, but they are quite rugged and repairable.

While the various SD card options are nice, there's also something pretty cool about running the original hardware. I intend to get my drive working next time I have the system set up... I'll bet most of my old disks will function fine in a healthy drive.
 
Thanks for all the suggestions!! I have 2 1541 drives. Both work fine! Those 2 disks are the only ones I have that do not work. :( go figure. Ill try an alternate solution but if anyone has might and magic book 1 commodore disks.... :)
 
Thanks for all the suggestions!! I have 2 1541 drives. Both work fine! Those 2 disks are the only ones I have that do not work. :( go figure. Ill try an alternate solution but if anyone has might and magic book 1 commodore disks.... :)
You can try feebay.

It doesn't take much to kill a floppy. Wrinkles, bends, or too close to a TV or magnet can blow sectors.
 
Sd2iec is a pretty good option. Not having to use floppy disks might make you use the machine more. Some games don't like the SD2iEC, however, and won't load properly. If you've got a raspberry pi, you can make your own, more or less cycle accurate floppy emulator with a small PCB from ribit.se and an SD card with the image required to boot the pi into disk drive emulator mode.
I have an sd2iec and it's wonderful
 
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