Hi David,

 >   What I don't understand is how to get it to load
 > programs off your
 > PC's harddrive, to get them to RUN.  Do you have to use
 > your Commodore
 > computer to create .d64 files out of your programs, and
 > then port those
 > over to the PC, and run them that way ... or what???


Using WinVICE here - has the nice front end to it :-) VICE will directly
load from a D64, D71, D81 or T64 image file, in the case of the first
three, just attch them as "drives". Otherwise, just browse to a
directory that holds your programs & add that as a virtual drive. And
load your software directly.

 >
 >   I have Errol Smith's program that creates and undoes
 > the .d64 files.
 > Have used that on my C=128 successfully a few times.  And
 > I have both
 > the Big Blue Reader and Little Red Reader, with which I
 > could port .d64
 > files from my actual Commodore equipment to the PC, so
 > that's not the
 > problem -- providing that is what needs to be done.
 >

You can write your own images & the tools you have will do it, these
days however, most old C= software is already available out there on the
net, already packed into emulator friendly format.

 >
 >   Also, is there anywhere that a person can go on the
 > net, to be able
 > to download a whole copy of the VICE docs?

Good luck :-) Again, if you swap to WinVICE, the help is mostly intuitive,
rather than the DOS version.

cheers,

Lance

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