Universal drive - test-drb@ccmp.vtda.org

4 Oct 1998

On Sat, 3 Oct 1998 Zane H. Healy wrote:
...
  Anyway, the URL
given was http://www.jshoenfeld.com/eindex.html 
I just tried and got told there was no DNS entry. 
Hmmm, looks like there was a misprint in the magazine I copied that URL from.

On Sat, 3 Oct 1998 Lawrence Walker wrote:
...
  beyond 720k. Many of the old ST Format 'zine's
 free disks used to be
 formatted with extra sectors so that they could cram more PD on disks. There 
Same applies to some Amiga coverdisks from the Amiga User International mag;
these used the diskspare.device 12-sectors-per-track format.

...
  When I get a Workbench disk for my newly acquired
Amiga 2000 I'm going to
 see if FCpro will copy the Amiga 880k format. Would be a solution to transfer
 problems from the net. Now if I could only find an easy way around the 
If you have an Amiga with a workable amount of RAM or a hard disk, it is quite
easy to transfer files using PC-formatted (720K) floppy disks.

Contact me privately if you want a copy of the Workbench disk etc., or more
info on 1541-to-Amiga connection.

...
   You can make a
cable to hook up a 1541 disk drive to a PC or Amiga and read
 files or disk images using this.  
 I take it you're referring to the X1541 cable. I wasn't aware that it could
 be used with Amigas. That looks promising. 
I wasn't. Perhaps I should have written "you can make cables..." instead.

I only have experience with this on an Amiga, but there are at least two types
of cable you can make, one extremely simple the other using a 7406 IC.

There are several Amiga programs for reading C64 disks, the Easy1541 package
being the nicest. You can read and write 1541 files and disk images, send
commands (e.g. to format a disk) and using the supplied iec.library control any
IEC bus device.

-- Mark