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Title: amiga vs c64
Post by: amazing on June 03, 2007, 02:50:03 PM
hi
i bought a transferr cable for connecting a pc to a 1541 diskdrive

now i found out it only workes in dos

but i also heard it works on a amiga
so now my questions is what program to use to acces the 1541 drive to transferr the d64 files?
Title: Re: amiga vs c64
Post by: motorollin on June 03, 2007, 02:53:10 PM
Easy1541 (http://aminet.net/package/misc/emu/Easy1541)

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moto
Title: Re: amiga vs c64
Post by: amazing on June 03, 2007, 03:21:06 PM
anyone uses that cable to transferr the stuff?
and does the 1541 constant running? without cable it goes out after u turned it on?
Title: Re: amiga vs c64
Post by: on June 03, 2007, 04:43:52 PM
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amazing wrote:

now i found out it only workes in dos


It is not the cable that only works in DOS, it is your software.

There are many different softwares for windows that can use cables on the parallel port to connect to a 1541.

There are even software patches for the popular Star Commander to make it work in Windows XP.
Title: Re: amiga vs c64
Post by: motorollin on June 03, 2007, 04:44:13 PM
I have used it, but I made the cable myself. I don't recall the drive running constantly. It only span up when the disk was being accessed. Did this happen when you tested it in DOS?

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moto
Title: Re: amiga vs c64
Post by: neuroflip on June 03, 2007, 06:33:27 PM
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i bought a transferr cable for connecting a pc to a 1541 diskdrive


wich cable is it? i have the XE1541 for DOS using 64HDD (http://www.64hdd.com/64hdd.html) and Star Commander (http://sta.c64.org/scbeta.html) And i have too the Easy1541 cable (http://sta.c64.org/easy1541c.html) to use Easy1541 (http://sta.c64.org/amigaprg.html) with amiga. You can test some Easy1541 gui like c64kopic.

The Easy1541 is limited to read / write 1541 disks, but with 64HDD you can emulate the disk drive, using the cable conection to access and mount d64s via DOS.
Title: Re: amiga vs c64
Post by: Daniele on June 03, 2007, 06:39:53 PM
I do the floppy images with the MMC 64 cartrige and it's very very cool. It takes 15 minutes to write a floppy 5,25 but everything is perfect!
Title: Re: amiga vs c64
Post by: amazing on June 03, 2007, 06:48:50 PM
yeah i was planning to buy a mmc64 too
i have a buch of foppys lying around here to transfer
is it easy to transfer them to the memory card?
Title: Re: amiga vs c64
Post by: amiga92570 on June 03, 2007, 09:42:20 PM
opencbm works well also although it works in console mode too.