31 May
2006
31 May
'06
10:37 p.m.
At 9:06 PM -0400 5/31/06, Bryan Pope wrote:
And thusly were the wise words spake by Zane H. Healy
I'm wondering if one of my Dauphin DTR-1 handhelds can be used
(basically a 486 running DOS). I've got the external floppy, and
they have a parallel port. It might very well work with the X1541 I
built for my 486 years ago. If not I might just order an XE1541
cable from c64reloaded.
While trying
to figure that one out, I ran across a *VERY* interesting
website: http://www.64hdd.com/64hdd.html This is for a piece of software
that turns an MS-DOS PC into a Commodore Disk drive, plus it can handle D64
files. I think this is the route I might end up going.
This requires the XE1541 cable which goes from the parallel port on
your PC to the IEC connector on the C64. But you need an older PC
as the newer PCs parallel port will not work properly. There is
also the new XM1541 ( http://sta.c64.org/xm1541.html ) which is
supposed to work with most parallel ports and PC boards. The is also
a link there for The Star Commander which handles quite a few different
file formats (and this cable!) :) > I must confess I'm not totally clear on why
I would want this. The Retro
> Replay cartridge looks cool, but what does the RR-Net addon get me? Can I
I don't think so... I believe it only works with
Contiki at this
time.
I hate to say it, but it gets back to the, why? If that's all it is
good for, I honestly can't see a purpose.
Zane
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