Building C64 disks

C64 disks in .D64 format will requite to include the loader and DAAD autoload file (DAAD and LS2), the DDB file named BPART1, the character and graphics file named APART1, and either the Spanish (SDI) or the English (EDI) intrepreter.

Being all this procedure quite complicated, as the loaders are built in machine code, not BASIC, it's better if you start with these premade disks. These disk will just require you to add the DDB file, named BPART1, and in case, the picture files 00164,00264, etc. and/or xmessage files 00,01,02,03,etc.

Please notice despite DRC generating XMESSAGE files as 00.XMB, 01.XMB, etc. you will have to remove the extension before moving to D64 file.

Please notice the linked english disk seem to include the Spanish interpreter (SDI). It's not really the case, it's just the English one renamed to SDI.

Recommended software

• D64 Editor allows adding files to D64 files from GUI or command line. Please notice when adding BPART1 D64 Editor will create file BPART1 if you add it as bpart1 (in lowercase). This is due to the fact C64 does not use ASCII, but PETSCII. You won't have any problem with pictures or xmessage files as the file names only include numbers.