Speedy transfer of D64's to a 1541II drive?

[Astral]

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?

[motorollin]

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

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moto

[Astral]

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...

[TjLaZer]

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!

[buzz]

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.

[_ThEcRoW]

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.

[Doppie1200]

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.