4 Mar
2000
4 Mar
'00
11:54 a.m.
Disk-2-Disk is an old commercial program for the Amiga
by Central Coast
Software. There is a demo of it on Aminet (misc/emu/D2D_Demo.lha).
D2D can be used to read data from C64 disks in an unmodified Amiga 5.25"
floppy drive. According to the documentation in the demo archive, reading from
tracks 1-17 is really slow because the program must do some tricks to account
for real 1541 drives having variable speed. (There is a program on Aminet,
misc/emu/1541.lha, which can read 1541 disks but this requires that the Amiga
drive's speed be reduced.)
Does anyone have an original copy of Disk-2-Disk that they would be willing
to sell? If you do, please contact me.
If you've got a need to read a lot of C64 disks on an Amiga, and you've got
Zorro 2 slots you might consider looking into a Catweasel board. Note,
what formats they 'support' and what they *supply* software for reading is
two different things, however, it works fine for reading C64 disks.
I refuse to actually recommend this board to anyone because of the state fo
the software support for it (actually there might be better software
though, than when I got my board a couple years ago).
Zane
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