Amiga diskdrives

[pyrre]

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?

[McVenco]

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
Link 2

The second one also comes with an IDE controller (and I have one of those for sale, so PM me if you're interested :-) )

[tokyoracer]

Was it ever possible for Amiga's to read C64 cassette tapes?

[McVenco]

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.

Recording to Amiga should be possible as well, but any conversion programs to .tap or .t64 are not known to me.

[beakster2]

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.

[Colani1200]

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.There is also a GUI for it.

[pyrre]

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.

[motorollin]

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

[Ral-Clan]

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.