Commodore hacking and hardware tricks (was Re: commodore 64/128question) - test-drb@ccmp.vtda.org

3 Sep 2006

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Subject: Re: Commodore hacking and hardware tricks (was Re: commodore 64/128question)
   From: "Zane H. Healy" <healyzh at aracnet.com>
   Date: Sun, 03 Sep 2006 13:32:51 -0700
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At 12:55 PM -0700 9/3/06, Chuck Guzis wrote:
>On 9/3/2006 at 8:42 PM Philip Pemberton wrote:
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>>Chuck Guzis wrote:
>>>  What's a good substitute drive mechanism for the 1541/71?  The drives
>>that
>>>  come as factory original are pretty chintzy. 
Funny, I was just looking at the 1571 and it's a Newtronics/Mitsumi 48TPI
two sided unit.  The 1541 is from what I read a different beast.

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   I'm not sure you'd be able to swap it out -
isn't the head preamp on the
1541
motherboard, not a separate drive interface board?
 Indeed it is.  I hoped that perhaps generations of C128 hackers had found a
way around this by now.  Silly me. 
I think it's called hooking your C64/128 up to a PC via a X1541 (or 
newer) cable, and using the PC as a drive via the appropriate 
software.  This is one of the solutions I'm thinking of trying. 
Apparently it allows you to use the PC as a 1541, and to use emulator 
images. 
Must be images as the '41 is GCR, the 1571 does do GCR and regualar 
soft sector.

Allison