Path: utzoo!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!mailrus!iuvax!rutgers!bellcore!faline!thumper!gamma!mibte!jbh From: jbh@mibte.UUCP (James Harvey) Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga Subject: Re: CBM 1581 and etc on Amiga Summary: C64 Emulator II Message-ID: <2778@mibte.UUCP> Date: 14 Mar 89 18:10:22 GMT References: <8903121350.AA00545@jade.berkeley.edu> <6222@columbia.edu> Distribution: usa Organization: Michigan Bell Telephone Company Lines: 50 In article <6222@columbia.edu>, simon@copper.columbia.edu (Thor Simon) writes: > Look at the parallel port pinouts in the amiga manual. Several of the > pins are actually the 64 type serial port with a different shape. > Somebody at CA just forgot to write the drivers. Unfortunately, 64 > emulator 2 uses this port in 64 mode, but only includes *printer* > drivers for amiga mode. AAARGH! I have a serial hard drive I wanted > to use...maybe 1.4 will support serial drives (hint,hint) after all, why put it > into the hardware if they don't mean to support it... > > Also: The 1010 will read 1581 disks, so the 1581 must be able to read > 1010 disks... > Furthermore, the 1020 can(just barely, the GCR code is about 1/2 > supported by the 1020 guts)read 1541 mode disks, and a 1571 could > easily read I*M disks, as a 1020 is just a decerebrated 1571. > > Now if we could just use the GEOS fonts on the amiga... The C64 Emulator II itself doesn't work very well. However, there is a program called "Transfer" included that is worth the price alone. This is a file copy program that will read 1541 disks from either a 1020 drive or a 1541 plugged into the Amiga parallel port with the special Emulator II cable. It will also write to 1541 disks in a 1541 drive. Reading is quite a bit faster from a 1020 than a 1541, the old serial buss has to be slower. Since the 1541 interface is done over the standard C64 serial cable, I would assume that it will also talk to a 1581 drive directly, and I believe there is a mode to read 1581 disks inserted into an amiga 3 1/2 inch drive. "Transfer" is not a full dos, it won't even open an Amiga directory for you, but as a file transfer utility it works superbly. I have transferred many megabytes of text and graphics files between the C64 and my Amiga with it. It even does the requsite ASCII - PETSCII conversion for you. I have had no problems reading (but don't try to write) 1541 disks on my 1020 drive. By the way, I also tried the "Disk-2-Disk" program that is marketed to do the same kinds of file transfers. It was much slower, didn't support a real 1541 (1020 only), and tended to error out a lot. -- Jim Harvey | "Ask not for whom the bell Michigan Bell Telephone | tolls and you will only pay 29777 Telegraph | Station-to-Station rates." Southfield, Mich. 48034 | ulysses!gamma!mibte!jbh