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Offline Akira

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Re: Not Amiga, but C=128!!!
« on: September 08, 2004, 07:29:24 AM »
I don't know how much those disks will last (you must get DD discs, HD discs won't work or at the very most be very unreliable with the Commodore drives), they will have their bitrotting happening very soon.

However a bunch of guys have found a disk production system or something, and they will start production of FRESH 5 1/4 disks as soon as they can. I read this at www.c64.sk , if you are interested.


Oooh, Flimbo's Quest :D
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Re: Not Amiga, but C=128!!!
« Reply #1 on: September 09, 2004, 04:56:48 AM »
The XE1541 cable works like a charm on my PC, never tried the Amiga solution, Easy1541, though.

The program you use on the PC is nothing but a clone of Norton Commander, very easy to get your disk images into floppies and all that. Straightforward!

Jens: I was "out of the loop" for a while, glad to see you kind of revived the project. Are you selling these disks, if so where?

woops, forgot to say, there's not such an easy solution on teh C64. but the XE1541 cable is easy to build or a jiffy to order, and in seconds you will be set. I suppose you could use an Inspiron to do this (provided it has a parallel port) but there's no OS X solution.

If you do have a 1581, I think there is an Amiga program that can write 1581 disks, so you can transfer a few files. But this is not recommended, it's easier to have your drive connected to a PC and write your disks in Star commander.

If you DON'T havea 1581, don't get it. They are expensive, and lots of software wont run off them.
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Re: Not Amiga, but C=128!!!
« Reply #2 on: September 11, 2004, 01:40:00 PM »
Lots of your games will just not run off a 1581. This is very diferent to an Apple II (is the same like coomparing amiga disks to pc or st disks, everybody knows how different amiga disks are, the case is the same with c64 disks)

You can go to http://sta.c64.org , download the program for free and the schematics to builkd the cable on your own!
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