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Amiga computer related discussion => Amiga Hardware Issues and discussion => Topic started by: pyrre on December 05, 2007, 08:44:51 PM
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I have an A2000 with a 2088 bridge board. With the bridge board there is a 5 1/4" disk drive connected to it.
Is there any way of getting it connected to the amiga itself (or for that matter any internal 5 1/4" diskdrives) og in some way getting it to read/write C64 disks?
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pyrre wrote:
I have an A2000 with a 2088 bridge board. With the bridge board there is a 5 1/4" disk drive connected to it.
Is there any way of getting it connected to the amiga itself (or for that matter any internal 5 1/4" diskdrives) og in some way getting it to read/write C64 disks?
There should be a way to use internal 5.25" drives directly with the Amiga, but I wouldn't know if that is possible with all drives (or if you need specific drives, just like 3.5" ones).
As for reading C64 disks (or ms-dos, atari, apple): yes it's possible, but you'll need a Catweasel controller:
Link 1 (http://amigahardware.mariomisic.de/cgi-bin/showhardware_en.cgi?HARDID=384)
Link 2 (http://amigahardware.mariomisic.de/cgi-bin/showhardware_en.cgi?HARDID=385)
The second one also comes with an IDE controller (and I have one of those for sale, so PM me if you're interested :-) )
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Was it ever possible for Amiga's to read C64 cassette tapes?
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tokyoracer wrote:
Was it ever possible for Amiga's to read C64 cassette tapes?
No. At least not directly. You can however record the data from a C64 to PC by connecting a tapedrive to a soundcard. Then you convert the .voc or .wav files to suitable emulator files (.tap or, better, .t64).
Click link for more info. (http://www.geocities.com/SiliconValley/Platform/8224/c64tape/faq.html)
Recording to Amiga should be possible as well, but any conversion programs to .tap or .t64 are not known to me.
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Many years ago I made a cable to connect a Commodore 1541 to the Amiga's parallel port for making c64 disk images.
I think the diagram and software came with Amiga Format.
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beakster2 wrote:
Many years ago I made a cable to connect a Commodore 1541 to the Amiga's parallel port for making c64 disk images.
I think the diagram and software came with Amiga Format.
Easy1541 on Aminet. (http://aminet.net/misc/emu/Easy1541.lha)There is also a GUI for it. (http://aminet.net/util/misc/c64kopik.lha)
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Was it ever possible for Amiga's to read C64 cassette tapes?
Yes, in a bizzare way...
By using a sampler program an sample the entire tape content to disk and use a converter tool to convert the audio waveforms into binary data was a way. I still have the megaloosound sampler, the tape deck and the sampler tool.
But however, the disk with the converter tool were corrupted.
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pyrre wrote:
But however, the disk with the converter tool were corrupted.
You should have copied it on to a cassette :-P
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moto
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Marko Makela made the C2N interface, which has software to operate on PC, MAC, IBM, Unix, etc.
http://www.ktverkko.fi/~msmakela/8bit/c2n232/index.en.html
It will allow a host computer to act as a dummy datasette for a real Commodore 8-bit. Sort of like having a big hard drive full of tape images connected to your real Commodore 8-bit.
This is the opposite of what you asked for but still interesting.