20 Sep
2006
20 Sep
'06
11:26 a.m.
With Zane H. getting productive with his C64, I thought I would
throw in what I finally got working on my C64 setup...
Last night I was *finally* able to update one of the banks in my
Retro-Reply with "The Final Replay" rom. This gives you the command
"CODENET" which allows you to send and execute code on the C64 from
another computer over TCP/IP. I sent the WarpCopy server and now I
am able to archive disk to my PC or send D64 files to be wrote to
a floppy. It takes only 22 seconds to send the whole contents of
a disk to my PC! Now I just need to find three more drives...
WarpCopy can be found here: http://www.oxyron.de/html/wc64.html .
(The Final Replay rom is also available there.)
Cheers,
Bryan
20 Sep
20 Sep
2:32 p.m.
At 11:26 AM -0400 9/20/06, Bryan Pope wrote:
With Zane H. getting productive with his C64, I thought
I would
throw in what I finally got working on my C64 setup...
Last night I was *finally* able to update one of the banks in my
Retro-Reply with "The Final Replay" rom. This gives you the command
"CODENET" which allows you to send and execute code on the C64 from
another computer over TCP/IP. I sent the WarpCopy server and now I
am able to archive disk to my PC or send D64 files to be wrote to
a floppy. It takes only 22 seconds to send the whole contents of
a disk to my PC! Now I just need to find three more drives...
WarpCopy can be found here: http://www.oxyron.de/html/wc64.html .
(The Final Replay rom is also available there.)
Nice! How well does it handle writing D64 images back to a floppy?
I about went deaf last night while writing an image to my 1541. My
old Twinhead 386sx/16 laptop that I use to run Star Commander has a
battery that's basically dead, and I need to open it up and kill the
speaker that was howling.
I really want the Retro-Replay cart and RR-Net, but haven't been able
to justify the cost :^(
How "interesting" is it to get the Retro-Replay working? I gather
from looking at the doc's that it doesn't
include anything in the
EPROM's, and that you have to get the ROM images loaded
yourself?
Zane
--
| Zane H. Healy | UNIX Systems Administrator |
| healyzh at aracnet.com (primary) | OpenVMS Enthusiast |
| MONK::HEALYZH (DECnet) | Classic Computer Collector |
+----------------------------------+----------------------------+
| Empire of the Petal Throne and Traveller Role Playing, |
| PDP-10 Emulation and Zane's Computer Museum. |
| http://www.aracnet.com/~healyzh/ |
8:38 p.m.
And thusly were the wise words spake by Zane H. Healy
At 11:26 AM -0400 9/20/06, Bryan Pope wrote:
*Noticeably* longer! 11.62 *minutes* to be exact.. :(
With Zane H. getting productive with his C64, I
thought I would
throw in what I finally got working on my C64 setup...
Last night I was *finally* able to update one of the banks in my
Retro-Reply with "The Final Replay" rom. This gives you the command
"CODENET" which allows you to send and execute code on the C64 from
another computer over TCP/IP. I sent the WarpCopy server and now I
am able to archive disk to my PC or send D64 files to be wrote to
a floppy. It takes only 22 seconds to send the whole contents of
a disk to my PC! Now I just need to find three more drives...
WarpCopy can be found here: http://www.oxyron.de/html/wc64.html .
(The Final Replay rom is also available there.)
Nice! How well does it handle writing D64 images back to a floppy? I about went deaf last night while writing an image to
my 1541. My
old Twinhead 386sx/16 laptop that I use to run Star Commander has a
battery that's basically dead, and I need to open it up and kill the
speaker that was howling.
Well, on the upside the noise it made while writing the image was
minuscule. Even no knocking of the drive head! ;)
I really want the Retro-Replay cart and RR-Net, but
haven't been able
to justify the cost :^(
It was easy for me to justify the cost for mine, 'cause I won it
at LUCKI Expo 2004! :) But I did buy an IDE64 while I was there.
How "interesting" is it to get the
Retro-Replay working? I gather
from looking at the doc's that it doesn't include anything in the
EPROM's, and that you have to get the ROM images loaded yourself?
IIRC, it already had a RR rom preloaded. To update it or flash it
with "The Final Replay" you need to be able to write two files -
the flashing prg and the rom to a floppy. I had a XE1541 cable I
had made myself quite a few years ago that after quite a few hours
I finally figured out wasn't making a good connection to my 1571. :(
Probably because I couldn't get a six-pin connector at the time
and had to settle for an eight-pin one and break off two of the
pins...
In the end I was able to make it work! :D
And once you have the two files on the floppy, you jumper the
"Flashmode" pins and LOAD "FLASH UTIL V3.8P",8,1 and RUN. It
is menu driven and allows you to backup any existing roms
before flashing with the new rom.
Cheers,
Bryan
P.S. There are two 64 kB banks available on the Retro-Replay, so you
can have the RR rom in one bank and The Final Replay in another.
21 Sep
21 Sep
11:18 a.m.
At 8:38 PM -0400 9/20/06, Bryan Pope wrote:
*Noticeably* longer! 11.62 *minutes* to be exact.. :(
This still might be faster than my Twinhead 386sx/16 laptop using
Star Commander to write over an X1541 cable. Plus when you add in
the time it takes me to get the Twinhead setup (and go through the
several tries booting to get the BIOS straightened out). Yes, the
Twinhead is in sad shape as far as the batteries are concerned, but
considering I bought it over 16 years ago, and that the BIOS batter
gave out about 12 years ago, it's not doing too badly.
The drive doesn't make much noise for me either, except when
formatting the floppy. The problem is the laptop howls like made
unless enough of a charge is detected in the battery.
And thusly were the wise words spake by Zane H. Healy
>
> At 11:26 AM -0400 9/20/06, Bryan Pope wrote:
WarpCopy can be found here:
http://www.oxyron.de/html/wc64.html .
(The Final Replay rom is also available there.)
Nice! How well does it handle writing D64 images back to a floppy? I about went
deaf last night while writing an image to my 1541. My
old Twinhead 386sx/16 laptop that I use to run Star Commander has a
battery that's basically dead, and I need to open it up and kill the
speaker that was howling.
Well, on the upside the noise it made while writing the image was
minuscule. Even no knocking of the drive head! ;) It was easy for me to justify the cost for mine,
'cause I won it
at LUCKI Expo 2004! :) But I did buy an IDE64 while I was there.
Your 64 just has all the cool toys doesn't it :^)
IIRC, it already had a RR rom preloaded. To update it
or flash it
with "The Final Replay" you need to be able to write two files -
the flashing prg and the rom to a floppy. I had a XE1541 cable I
had made myself quite a few years ago that after quite a few hours
I finally figured out wasn't making a good connection to my 1571. :(
Probably because I couldn't get a six-pin connector at the time
and had to settle for an eight-pin one and break off two of the
pins...
In the end I was able to make it work! :D
And once you have the two files on the floppy, you jumper the
"Flashmode" pins and LOAD "FLASH UTIL V3.8P",8,1 and RUN. It
is menu driven and allows you to backup any existing roms
before flashing with the new rom.
I take it from this, that the only real part you had some much
trouble with was getting the necessary files onto a floppy for your
64?
Zane
--
| Zane H. Healy | UNIX Systems Administrator |
| healyzh at aracnet.com (primary) | OpenVMS Enthusiast |
| MONK::HEALYZH (DECnet) | Classic Computer Collector |
+----------------------------------+----------------------------+
| Empire of the Petal Throne and Traveller Role Playing, |
| PDP-10 Emulation and Zane's Computer Museum. |
| http://www.aracnet.com/~healyzh/ |
1:49 p.m.
And thusly were the wise words spake by Zane H. Healy
The drive doesn't make much noise for me either, except when
formatting the floppy. The problem is the laptop howls like made
unless enough of a charge is detected in the battery.
You should disconnect one of the wires going to the speaker..
:) But only now am I finally able to use them! Just moved into a
bigger place this month so now I have room for the toys. ;)
Yes, once I got that everything else "Just Worked"!
Cheers,
Bryan
At 8:38 PM -0400 9/20/06, Bryan Pope wrote:
*Noticeably* longer! 11.62 *minutes* to be exact.. :(
This still might be faster than my Twinhead 386sx/16 laptop using
Star Commander to write over an X1541 cable. Plus when you add in
the time it takes me to get the Twinhead setup (and go through the
several tries booting to get the BIOS straightened out). Yes, the
Twinhead is in sad shape as far as the batteries are concerned, but
considering I bought it over 16 years ago, and that the BIOS batter
gave out about 12 years ago, it's not doing too badly.
It *may* work faster with JiffyDOS but I need to see if I have a
system that has it installed.
And thusly were the wise words spake by Zane H.
Healy
>
> At 11:26 AM -0400 9/20/06, Bryan Pope wrote:
WarpCopy can be found here:
http://www.oxyron.de/html/wc64.html .
(The Final Replay rom is also available there.)
Nice! How well does it handle writing D64 images back to a floppy? I about went deaf last night while writing an image to
my 1541. My
old Twinhead 386sx/16 laptop that I use to run Star Commander has a
battery that's basically dead, and I need to open it up and kill the
speaker that was howling.
Well, on the upside the noise it made while writing the image was
minuscule. Even no knocking of the drive head! ;) It was easy for
me to justify the cost for mine, 'cause I won it
at LUCKI Expo 2004! :) But I did buy an IDE64 while I was there.
Your 64 just has all the cool toys doesn't it :^)
IIRC, it
already had a RR rom preloaded. To update it or flash it
with "The Final Replay" you need to be able to write two files -
the flashing prg and the rom to a floppy. I had a XE1541 cable I
had made myself quite a few years ago that after quite a few hours
I finally figured out wasn't making a good connection to my 1571. :(
Probably because I couldn't get a six-pin connector at the time
and had to settle for an eight-pin one and break off two of the
pins...
In the end I was able to make it work! :D
And once you have the two files on the floppy, you jumper the
"Flashmode" pins and LOAD "FLASH UTIL V3.8P",8,1 and RUN. It
is menu driven and allows you to backup any existing roms
before flashing with the new rom.
I take it from this, that the only real part you had some much
trouble with was getting the necessary files onto a floppy for your
64?
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