Newsgroups: comp.sys.cbm
Path: utzoo!utdoe!contact!mm
From: mm@contact.uucp (mike maunz)
Subject: Cartridge Detection
Reply-To: mm@contact.uucp (mike maunz)
Organization: Contact Public Unix BBS. Toronto, Canada.
Distribution: na
Date: Fri, 15 Feb 91 02:20:27 GMT
Message-ID: <1991Feb15.022027.20372@contact.uucp>


A while back, someone posted an article about how to detect if a cartridge is
present on the C64 even if it's disabled. The method had something to do with
using the CIA timers, etc. Could someone please re-post this?
 
Also, I was wondering if and how it is possible to bypass the write protection
on a 1541 so that the drive will write
to a disk regardless whether the notch is covered or not (through software, not
hardware). Thanks.
 
-Mike