Sigh I do have a Working C128 with 1571 Serial 5 1/4 Floppy but my Printer Ribbon Dryed out Ages ago. I need to Get my files from VisaWrite onto my PC so I can print them out with my USB Printer.
I guess it would be Simpler to Connect my PC to my C128 huh?
Any Idea as to how I could get this to work?
I might be able to get my Hands on a 386 5 1/4 Drive it will have to be a 500K drive because one full Disk on the C128 Double formatt was only 1Kb 1000K Wow huh???
Any help in this regard that dose not cost a fortune would ba appreciated
Regards
Doggard
Commodors will never die!!!!!!
So basically, what you're saying is that you have files on 1541/1571 discs that you want transferred into D64's that can be read by a PC?
There are many ways of acheiving that :)
Here's a good page on the concept in general:
http://zimmers.net/anonftp/pub/cbm/crossplatform/transfer/transfer.html
There are also solutions like the uIEC (http://www.c64-wiki.com/index.php/uIEC), etc.
Someone in your area might be able to do it for you... you might check with TPUG (http://www.tpug.ca/) (Canadian Commodore group).
Or, I can do it for $2.50USD a disk side. Just PM me.
You could buy a CatWeasel on eBay for $127. Then you could read every disk format known to humankind. :)
Quote from: airship on April 07, 2009, 01:05 AMThen you could read every disk format known to humankind. :)
Hey, does that include 2-inch and 3-inch disks? :)
Catching up with everything
now that MossyCon 5 is over,
Robert Bernardo
Fresno Commodore User Group
http://videocam.net.au/fcug
Notacon 6 / Blockparty 3 on April 16-19
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Hey Robert, you missed the 4-inch (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Floppy_disc#IBM_DemiDiskettes) floppy and the 8-inch :)
Quote from: Doggard on April 06, 2009, 04:53 AMone full Disk on the C128 Double formatt was only 1Kb 1000K Wow huh???
A double-sided Commodore-formatted 5ΒΌ" floppy disk on a 1571 is 340K. A single-sided format is 170K.