C64 CP/M carts (was: Re: Yet another weekend haul story)

From: Doug Spence <ds_spenc_at_alcor.concordia.ca>
Date: Thu Jun 19 05:57:36 1997

On Sat, 14 Jun 1997, steve wrote:

> At 06:10 13/06/97 -0400, you wrote:

<snip>

> >Of course this all assumes that I *have* a PC.
   ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
<snip>

> 22DISK allows you to convert, format and manipulate diskettes in over 450
> CP/M formats to and from DOS files. Your old CP/M machine may be gone, but
> you can read its diskettes in the drives of your PC-compatible. Some
                             ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
> formats will require a 1.2M diskette drive; a very few will require a
> diskette controller that handles single-density diskettes. An ASCII
> diskette description drive allows "roll your own" specifications for
> hard-to-find or proprietary systems.

Please stop assuming I've joined the Evil Empire. My only PC compatibles
are my A1060 Sidecar on my Amiga 1000, which no longer has a 5.25" floppy
drive as I put a hard drive in its bay, and a Tandy 1000EX, which has no
way of communicating with anything else that I own because ALL it has is
a 360K floppy drive.

Besides, I was talking about CP/M for the Commodore 1541 drive. That's a
multi-speed drive that uses GCR encoding, not MFM. Try writing THAT with
22DISK on your PC-clone.

IMHO, someone should write software like 22DISK for the Amiga, as it can
read/write MFM and GCR, and do some other weird things that PC-clone
floppy controllers can't do (like read Amiga disks, for example ;) ).

> >DO YOU WANA COPY???

I already have a copy, actually, but nothing to use it on at the moment.

Thanks for the offer anyway.

> Emulator BBS
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> Keeping 8-Bit ALIVE

Emulators can be fun, but I've never met an emulator that was as good as
the real thing. Excepting Macintosh emulators, of course. :)


Doug Spence
ds_spenc_at_alcor.concordia.ca
Received on Thu Jun 19 1997 - 05:57:36 BST