formats index
*** C64 (PCLINK image files)
** Document revision 1.1
This is another "C64-to-PC" connection program. It was written by Peter
Jakab in 1994. With it and a custom interface cable, you could link your
C64 and PC together to use the PC's hard disk as a C64 storage device.
Files you wanted to be seen would have to be in this ".C64" format. (Note:
don't confuse these files with PC64's .C64 saved-session files)
00 01 02 03 04 05 06 07 08 09 0A 0B 0C 0D 0E 0F ASCII
----------------------------------------------- ----------------
00: 38 CD 81 06 50 43 4C 49 4E 4B 20 20 20 00 00 00 8́PCLINK
10: 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00
20: 00 00 00 00 01 08 0B 08 00 00 9E 32 30 36 31 00 2061
30: 00 00 78 A2 FB 9A 20 18 E5 20 55 10 A9 00 8D 20 xU
Bytes: $00-01: PCLINK file signature ($38 $CD)
02: PRG filetype ($81, *not* $82 as you would expect). No
other filetype was supported.
03: Filename length ($06)
04-13: Filename (16 bytes allotted, name padded with $00's)
14-23: Miscellaneous field (16 bytes allotted) - this was never
implemented.
24-: File data starts here
PCLINK also supports DOS BINARY files if their filename started with a
"#". These files would have no header.