4 Apr
2012
4 Apr
'12
6:12 a.m.
--- On Wed, 4/4/12, Jeffrey Brace <arkaxow at gmail.com> wrote:
I was considering buying KryoFlux to read and write
Commodore disks. Has anyone done this ? From what I gather
you just get the board and you can get the floppy cable and
a power supply and power cord. But you need to buy a HD PC
floppy drive and then can read the Commodore disks. That is
Commodore 1541 disks. Does this sound right ?
You don't want to use a PC HD drive, Commodore disks are 40 track (OK, well, 35 track,
but still), the narrower head of the 80 track PC drive will cause problems if you want to
write.
If you just want to read and write Commodore 1541 disks, why not use a Commodore 1541
drive and a simple cable to connect it to the PC's parallel port, and run Star
Commander?
Or, Jim Brain's ZoomFloppy connects a Commodore 1541 drive to USB, if you want to go
that route.
I think either method would be more suitable for Commodore disks.
-Ian