18 Jun
2012
18 Jun
'12
2:57 p.m.
At 1:12 PM -0400 6/18/12, Dan Gahlinger wrote:
>Zane,
>Catweasel definitely has a method to connect a 1541 to a PC.
"HAS a method" ??!?
>best USB option is still the zoomfloppy
(xumfloppy).
THAT may be what he was asking.
>Kyroflux just recently did a TON of work on the
g64 format,so there
>should be something there as well.
AGAIN, he asked about cabling a C64 drive to
a PC, which probably means
that he wants FILEs, not flux transitions.
On Mon, 18 Jun 2012, Zane H. Healy wrote:
I'm still feeling burned after buying a Zorro2
Catweasel in the late
90's. I don't appreciate being told a product will support 'x'
formats when in reality it wouldn't as there were no drivers.
BTDT.
"will support"
There needs to be MUCH greater care to differentiate and disambiguate
"could" V "would".
Eventually, somebody will write software that permits that hardware to
transfer FILEs.
There are two parts to the problem: software to convert the raw flux
transition data into sectors, preferably with a calling structure similar
to INT13h,
AND
software to handle the alien file system, which several of us have done
before.
ONLY when both parts of the software are functional and successfully
linked with each other, THEN it could be said that it "supports x",
without it being a BOGUS stretch from "could support it, IF
nonexistent software, . . . ".
And THEN, AND ONLY THEN, it could be an appropriate answer when somebody
asks how to get their files from x.
OK, howzbout: "The solution is simply buy or build a CatWeasel,
DiskFerret, OptionBoard, or other flux transition device, and just write
those two trivial pieces of software!"
--
Grumpy Ol' Fred cisin at xenosoft.com