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Amiga computer related discussion => Amiga Software Issues and Discussion => Topic started by: Astral on December 23, 2006, 08:47:20 AM

Title: Speedy transfer of D64's to a 1541II drive?
Post by: Astral on December 23, 2006, 08:47:20 AM

I've just built myself an 'Easy 1541' cable to write Commodore 64 .d64 files to discs using the Amiga. It works fine, but is a little slow. Is there any other program available for the Amiga that will do a similar job, but a bit more speedily?

Title: Re: Speedy transfer of D64's to a 1541II drive?
Post by: motorollin on December 23, 2006, 08:48:04 AM

I don't think the bottleneck is the software. It's more likely to be the slow drive.

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moto

Title: Re: Speedy transfer of D64's to a 1541II drive?
Post by: Astral on December 23, 2006, 08:53:56 AM

It would think it would be possible to write faster than Easy1541 does. There were countless cartridges and software available for the C64 that dramatically sped up disk operations...

Title: Re: Speedy transfer of D64's to a 1541II drive?
Post by: TjLaZer on December 23, 2006, 09:10:21 AM

Yep writing is SLLOOOW and single tasks the Amiga big time while it writes!!  Wish is was faster...  Oh well part of the experience I suppose!

Title: Re: Speedy transfer of D64's to a 1541II drive?
Post by: buzz on December 23, 2006, 01:02:15 PM

Pick up an old pc perhaps and use OpenCBM with an xm1541 cable, or even better a XMP1541. I use an old laptop for writing disks, with a XMP1541 cable. Takes about 40 seconds (or less).

I also managed to kill a drive with easy1541 before so be careful.

Title: Re: Speedy transfer of D64's to a 1541II drive?
Post by: _ThEcRoW on December 23, 2006, 02:23:04 PM

Or you can use a Catweasel card. It writes many types of disk formats, c64 and Amiga since the beginning and i have been writing floppies for my 500 perfectly. Soon will attach a 5,25 drive for writing back d64 files for my hacked DTV.

Title: Re: Speedy transfer of D64's to a 1541II drive?
Post by: Doppie1200 on December 23, 2006, 07:56:51 PM

Currenlty I'm in the progress of writing a plug-in for the total commander. Total commander is a nice piece of software for windows and it resembles the norton commander.

The plug-in allows the total commander to use the CBM4WIN drivers. It currently allows D64 and D71 image transfer from and to a commodore drive and it can format disks.

I can assure you these drives are not fast at all. During testing the image transferring the best I got was an avarage of ~2.3kB per second.

Remeber it is all relative. Compared to modern storage devices they are dog slow but compared to the good old datasette I think they do a good job.