At 9:07 PM -0700 5/28/10, Gene Buckle wrote:
On Fri, 28 May 2010, Zane H. Healy wrote:
Can a C1541 or C1571 attached to a C64 read
floppies from other
Commodore computers such as the VIC-20 or C16? Since the floppy
drive is basically a computer attached to the C64 by a serial
cable, I tend to think it can, but I don't believe I've ever seen
anything on this, and I know I've never tried. I've never had a
floppy drive attached to any of my VIC-20's, back when it was my
only computer, I only had a cassette drive.
Zane, the short answer is yes. The long answer is yes, because the
brains of the drive and the DOS are IN the drive itself, not the
computer. :)
The only difficulty you might run into is trying to read a double
sided 1571 disk in a single sided 1541.
I thought this was the case, but just couldn't believe Commodore
could have done anything so logical. :-)
Zane
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