This is one of my favorite programs...
> Star Commander, yes, and the C64S emulator can as well, but they're limited
> to dealing in .d64s and isolated files. The Commodore filesystem doesn't
> translate so good with DOS and vice-versa.
Plug #1: As far as utilities written by & for hardware hackers go, The Star
Commander by Joe Foster/STA has got to be one of the best. It's a two-panel
type file manager in the style of Norton Commander or Midnight Commander.
Star Commander however, allows you to treat a Commodore 1540, 1541 or 1571
floppy as if it were a normal A or B floppy on the host system.
The CBM floppy drive connects to the host's parallel port via any one of
several cables, based on the X1541 concept. The X1541 concept has one major
weakness: speed. The X1541 design uses the parallel port as a serial
connection, and hence only sends one-bit words. There is at least one other
design, that while requiring some modifications to be done to the CBM drive,
allows a true parallel data path; 8-bit words. This latter design is
significantly faster than the standard X1541 design.
Full information on The Star Commander and the various supported transfer
cables can be found at:
http://sta.c64.org/sc.html
Plug #2: CCS64 Emulator by Per Hakan Sundell. This is far and away, the best
DOS / Windows emulator for the Commodore64. I have yet to find anything that
it could not do, and it's full of extra features (overclock your virtual
C-64, etc.). Mr Sundell is a very impressive programmer, as this work alone
will show. Homepage for CCS64 is found at:
http://www.computerbrains.com/ccs64/
Hope this is interesting to someone.
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