Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!ncrlnk!ncrstp!npdiss1!anderson From: anderson@npdiss1.StPaul.NCR.COM (Joel Peter Anderson) Newsgroups: comp.sys.cbm Subject: Re: 1581 disk drive Message-ID: <616@npdiss1.StPaul.NCR.COM> Date: 2 Oct 90 12:37:50 GMT References: <2025@ac.dal.ca> Reply-To: joel.anderson@StPaul.NCR.COM (Joel Peter Anderson) Organization: StPaul Lines: 46 In article yorkw@stable.ecn.purdue.edu (Willis F York) writes: >rharrie@ac.dal.ca writes: > >>> to either read 720K MSDOS format disks in this drive - or to read/write >>> 1581 disks in a standard pc-clone drive (720K or 1.44M). > >On a Diffrent Note, (kinda Diff but related to this) > >I have an AMIGA and just got a Nifty Program A64 and ya got it it's a >PD (well Not PD but kinda) Program that Emulates a C64, the neat thing is i can use my 880k amiga Floppies as Drives for it. > >it i can set device 8 to be my Ram: drive then a > >load"*",8,1 would load the First file offa my RAM: drive, >(Hopefully trhis is a 64 prog... :^} ) Well, I have a64 also, and have found that whenever you use Amiga hardware as a drive (RAM, or real drives) commands that assume the normal intelligent 1541 (loading "$", or wildcard matches "?","*") fail with an error related to trying 1541 commands on Amiga hardware. >Thing is i WANT to run GEOS, and geos uses FAST disk type Routines. >and it is KEY disk protected..... Sorry, this probably won't work. Geos relies heavily on interaction between the 64 and the intelligent drive. Even if you load Geos (I can do that - too hard to explain) the system immediately needs to do tricky things with the drive - no 'real' drive, no Geos. Using ReadySofts 64 Emulator on the Amiga, I CAN load and run Geos 1.3 (But not 2.0); however this only works with a real 1541 drive, and it is very slow. The only possibility fo A64 (I think) is sending in the shareware fee and getting the cable for the real 1541 drive - but don't count on it. (on the other hand it would be REAL NICE to give this guy some money - I think the A64 is an excellent product. :-) ------------------------------------------------------------------------- "We know only the strong will survive, But the meek will inherit. So if you've got a coat of arms, oh friend, I suggest we wear it." John Mellencamp. ------------------------------------------------------------------------- joel.anderson@StPaul.NCR.COM |WELL: jpa@well.sf.ca.us Joel Peter Anderson |GEnie: J.ANDERSON71 (I think) NCR Comten / Software engineer |PNET: jpa@pnet51.cts.com -------------------------------------------------------------------------