cosam
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I've got loads of pet software as .d64 files and can't get any onto the PET, I have only managed one program (Cosmic Cosmiads) by recording to tapoe and then loading, but cause it's machine code I can't then save back to disk !!!
There are various tools for manipulating at least d64 images, maybe even d80s, but I had the most success using VICE. The d64 can be attached as one drive and you can simply copy .PRGs over to a virtual 8x50 drive with a blank d80 attached. As far as I can remember the transfer of the d80 to a real disk was just a matter of following the cbmlink documentation.
And yes, you need the PC64 cable: DB25 at one end and PET user port edge connector at the other. Not hard to make (the pinout is in the cbmlink docs) but I did have a job finding a suitable edge connector.