catweasel questions

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So if i understand this thing correctly, I can use this to connect standard pc 1.44 (3.5) and 1.2 (5.25) floppy drives to the amiga?  and still read the 880k disks with the same drive?    and amiga high density disks?  What do, say, c64 floppy disks look like when you list their contents on the amiga?  or pc floppy disks on the amiga for that matter?  does it translate the formats for you?

brian

[tokyoracer]

Depends what one you are looking at. I presume the Mk2 or 3 ones. As far as i'm aware it reads and writes 1.44mb floppys and can use PC drives but I don't think it will read C64/128 ones.

[Dwyloc]

tokyoracer wrote:
Depends what one you are looking at. I presume the Mk2 or 3 ones. As far as i'm aware it reads and writes 1.44mb floppys and can use PC drives but I don't think it will read C64/128 ones.

No If he has an appropriate 5 1/4 floppy drive to connect to it and he should be able to read C64 disks as well.  At lest I know you can with a mk3 under linux on an x86 box and I believe you can with a mk2 or mk3 under Amiga OS as well.

I have a Catweasel mk4 my self which I use under both Windows XP Pro and linux and am very happy with.  As I used it to create hundreds on disk images with to backup my ageing collection of amiga disks and I then write them back to new disks as required to use with my real amiga's.  I also use it to connect Amiga joysticks to My PC for use with WinUAE as well frodo (C64 emulator).

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Dwyloc wrote:
No If he has an appropriate 5 1/4 floppy drive to connect to it and he should be able to read C64 disks as well.  At lest I know you can with a mk3 under linux on an x86 box and I believe you can with a mk2 or mk3 under Amiga OS as well.

I have a Catweasel mk4 my self which I use under both Windows XP Pro and linux and am very happy with.  As I used it to create hundreds on disk images with to backup my ageing collection of amiga disks and I then write them back to new disks as required to use with my real amiga's.  I also use it to connect Amiga joysticks to My PC for use with WinUAE as well frodo (C64 emulator).

How would you hook up a c64 1541 to the catweasel?  Wasn't that a weird proprietary serial interface?

Look at this:

http://www.jschoenfeld.com/indexe.htm

PC floppy drives used to be known as being able to work with PC formatted disks only, but now you can access any of the disk formats listed further below.

Commodore's on the list... all of them.  Even the variable speed mac formats are there.

brian