21 Sep
2006
21 Sep
'06
11:18 a.m.
At 8:38 PM -0400 9/20/06, Bryan Pope wrote:
*Noticeably* longer! 11.62 *minutes* to be exact.. :(
This still might be faster than my Twinhead 386sx/16 laptop using
Star Commander to write over an X1541 cable. Plus when you add in
the time it takes me to get the Twinhead setup (and go through the
several tries booting to get the BIOS straightened out). Yes, the
Twinhead is in sad shape as far as the batteries are concerned, but
considering I bought it over 16 years ago, and that the BIOS batter
gave out about 12 years ago, it's not doing too badly.
The drive doesn't make much noise for me either, except when
formatting the floppy. The problem is the laptop howls like made
unless enough of a charge is detected in the battery.
And thusly were the wise words spake by Zane H. Healy
>
> At 11:26 AM -0400 9/20/06, Bryan Pope wrote:
WarpCopy can be found here:
http://www.oxyron.de/html/wc64.html .
(The Final Replay rom is also available there.)
Nice! How well does it handle writing D64 images back to a floppy? I about went
deaf last night while writing an image to my 1541. My
old Twinhead 386sx/16 laptop that I use to run Star Commander has a
battery that's basically dead, and I need to open it up and kill the
speaker that was howling.
Well, on the upside the noise it made while writing the image was
minuscule. Even no knocking of the drive head! ;) It was easy for me to justify the cost for mine,
'cause I won it
at LUCKI Expo 2004! :) But I did buy an IDE64 while I was there.
Your 64 just has all the cool toys doesn't it :^)
IIRC, it already had a RR rom preloaded. To update it
or flash it
with "The Final Replay" you need to be able to write two files -
the flashing prg and the rom to a floppy. I had a XE1541 cable I
had made myself quite a few years ago that after quite a few hours
I finally figured out wasn't making a good connection to my 1571. :(
Probably because I couldn't get a six-pin connector at the time
and had to settle for an eight-pin one and break off two of the
pins...
In the end I was able to make it work! :D
And once you have the two files on the floppy, you jumper the
"Flashmode" pins and LOAD "FLASH UTIL V3.8P",8,1 and RUN. It
is menu driven and allows you to backup any existing roms
before flashing with the new rom.
I take it from this, that the only real part you had some much
trouble with was getting the necessary files onto a floppy for your
64?
Zane
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