28 Mar
2008
28 Mar
'08
9:25 a.m.
The following eBay seller has a few MMC Replay's and RR-Net's
available for the Commodore 64.
http://stores.ebay.com/Reds-Retro-Computing-Extravaganza
I've not dealt with this seller before, but I just finished ordering
mine from him, so should hopefully have it sometime next week. I'm
excited to get it, as the new MMC Replay (the MMC64 and Retro Replay
carts combined into one) allows mounting of D64 and D71 images. Not
quite as good of a solution as the 1541-III would be, since it won't
allow you to use a REU, but I don't own a REU anyway.
If you're like me and had wanted to get the MMC64 and Retro Replay,
but had never managed to get one, the MMC Replay looks to be a
pleasant surprise. It has new features, and is supposed to be more
compatible with the C64 and C128's.
More details and the manual can be found here.
http://www.vesalia.de/e_mmcreplay.htm
Zane
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28 Mar
28 Mar
10:26 a.m.
The following eBay seller has a few MMC Replay's
and RR-Net's
available for the Commodore 64.
http://stores.ebay.com/Reds-Retro-Computing-Extravaganza
I've not dealt with this seller before, but I just finished ordering
mine from him, so should hopefully have it sometime next week.
He is a very reputable seller and I can personally vouch for him.
I have an MMC64 and it's a really nice unit. I'm looking at an MMC Replay
myself.
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12:06 p.m.
The following
eBay seller has a few MMC Replay's and RR-Net's
available for the Commodore 64.
http://stores.ebay.com/Reds-Retro-Computing-Extravaganza
I've not dealt with this seller before, but I just finished ordering
mine from him, so should hopefully have it sometime next week.
He is a very reputable seller and I can personally vouch for him. I have an MMC64 and it's a really nice unit.
I'm looking at an MMC Replay
myself.
The MMC Replay looks like a serious upgrade, and in a lot of ways I'm glad
I'd not previously purchased the MMC64 or Retro Replay. I don't manage to
play with my C64 much anyway, so what little time I've had the past few
years has been spent on other upgrades that I've built myself. This will
save me the time and money of trying to build a 1541-III, at least for the
time being (the 1541-III seems to be a better solution).
Zane
2:42 p.m.
Yeah, he's a good guy. Be forewarned though that many (most) of the
plug-ins (read most of the functionality) of the MMC Replay is not
going to work with an NTSC 64. With that being said, I'm happy with
mine.
By the way, if anyone wants to buy an MMC64 and/or a 1541-III (fully
assembled), let me know. I have spares of both that I don't need.
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4:12 p.m.
Zane H. Healy wrote (in reference to the MMC Replay):
What doesn't work?
The DFI plug-in (d64 multi-loader which means that multi-load programs
are a no-go), Retro Replay NTSC ROM fast load and save, Warp Copy fast
d64 write and MMC64 fast d64 read and write. MMC kernal d64 reads and
writes do work but are painfully slow. I'm sure the software will
improve in time but it seems likely that NTSC support will always lag
behind as the software development takes place in PAL-land and the
truth of the matter is that they just don't care about NTSC support.
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4:33 p.m.
I am contemplating buying a MMC2IEC for my SX64.. link here....
http://www.nkcelectronics.com/mmc2iec-commodore-disk-drive-emulation-
devic.html
anyone with experience of theses??
roger
6:14 p.m.
I am contemplating buying a MMC2IEC for my SX64..
link here....
http://www.nkcelectronics.com/mmc2iec-commodore-disk-drive-emulation-devic.…
anyone with experience of theses??
I just got mine. I haven't had a chance to play with it yet.
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9:12 p.m.
Roger Pugh wrote:
I am contemplating buying a MMC2IEC for my SX64..
link here....
http://www.nkcelectronics.com/mmc2iec-commodore-disk-drive-emulation-devic.…
anyone with experience of theses??
roger
If you can wait, I would hold off for a better NKC version.
The NKC hardware is OK, but it has a few problems in the PCB layout, and
it has upgrade problems (the uC is too small). THe author is on the
PETSCII forums and I believe he is considering a new run with a larger
uC and a better layout.
Regardless of whether you buy a current unit or new one, I would highly
recommend you reflash the firmware to, or ask for a preinstalled copy
of SD2IEC, which is a new set of firmware that offers a lot of features
over the original MMC2IEC firmware
(http://www.c64-wiki.com/index.php/MMC2IEC) In the interest of full
disclosure, note that I have recently gotten involved in adding features
to the SD2IEC firmware, though most of the features predate my involvement.
While resurrecting my uIEC project to finish it (it's an IEC to CF/IDE
interface, along the lines of the MMC2IEC), I found the SD2IEC
firmware. Initially, I was planning to incorporate some of the neat
features of the codebase into my firmware, but the more I learned about
it, the more I liked it, so I eventually scrapped my firmware and
modified SD2IEC to run on the uIEC hardware. I added long filename
support, and helped with multiple partition support.
The firmware (and by extension, the hardware) is very capable now. The
latest firmware supports up to 2 physical drives, with up to 16 FAT16/32
partitions per drive. It uses the CMD HD syntax for CD/MD/RD commands
and other things like partition directories (I added that day before
yesterday).
Once the SD2IEC firmware has been flashed onto the device and the
bootloader installed, one can update their sd2iec-based unit to the
newest code just by putting the new firmware on the root directory of
the primary card and resetting the unit.
Jim
5:43 p.m.
Zane H. Healy wrote (in reference to the MMC
Replay):
So I can use this as a partial replacement for my disk drives, but not a
total replacement. :^( At least I can put my Twinhead 386sx/16 laptop in
storage, and stop messing with using it to read and write C1541 floppies.
Zane
What doesn't work?
The DFI plug-in (d64 multi-loader which means that multi-load programs
are a no-go), Retro Replay NTSC ROM fast load and save, Warp Copy fast
d64 write and MMC64 fast d64 read and write. MMC kernal d64 reads and
writes do work but are painfully slow. I'm sure the software will
improve in time but it seems likely that NTSC support will always lag
behind as the software development takes place in PAL-land and the
truth of the matter is that they just don't care about NTSC support.
6:47 p.m.
New subject: (offlist) 1541-III
By the way, if anyone wants to buy an MMC64 and/or a
1541-III (fully
assembled), let me know. I have spares of both that I don't need.
I'd be interested in the 1541-III. How much are you asking? Is it a 1.1?
And do you know the firmware version loaded?
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6:51 p.m.
New subject: (offlist) 1541-III
By the way, if
anyone wants to buy an MMC64 and/or a 1541-III (fully
assembled), let me know. I have spares of both that I don't need.
I'd be interested in the 1541-III.
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