31 May
2006
31 May
'06
6:06 p.m.
And thusly were the wise words spake by Zane H. Healy
No, it comes pre-built. :) GOTO http://www.ide64.org for the main
web page. http://wings.webhop.org (Mordernity Group) is a distributor
of the IDE64, but they currently do not have any as they are waiting
for V4 to be completed. I bought my IDE64 from Greg Nacu of MG at
the 2004 LUCKI Expo.
I don't think so... I believe it only works with Contiki at this
time.
Cheers,
Bryan
There is the IDE64 which allows you to
hookup IDE drive,
CD/DVD-ROMS and Compact Flash cards. Plus the creator is working
on an ethernet adapter that would attach to it. Right now the IDE64
board is in its fourth revision.
Now that is interesting, is this a board you can buy somehow, or do you have
to build it yourself?
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!) :)
There
is also the Retro Replay cartridge (a program
freezer) which has an addon called the RR-Net that gives you a
10Mbps (yes I know the C64 can't move that much data!) ;) ethernet port.
This is supported by the Contiki OS which is set to move to V2.0.
Cheers,
Bryan
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
use it with Quantum Link Reloaded? It looks like it can probably be used to
make disk images of existing floppies, or write disk images back out to
floppies, but I'm honestly not sure on that one.