Posted By
MMS
on 2011-10-11
17:59:38
 |  Re: New Hardware 1541 - III
Hello,
some years passed, no news on that topic :-)
Right now I am a proud owner of 6 Plus/4, 3 C64, 1 ZX Spectrum and a non-working Amiga500 (grrr), +1571, 1541/II and 2pcs 1541 (+1 nonworking 1541) I decided to sell away some of the HW to buy some newer stuff for the remaining kids :-)
I plan to buy an uIEC/SD, seems to impress every owner. No clue, if fully compatible with fastoaders. 60USD + shipping
Also a Zoomfloppy, in case I am able to finish any of my work :-) 35USD+ shipping
These will support Plus/4 and C64 too.
Only one small problem is the cassette port for uIEC: it uses the C64 style one, though I do not have any converter cable (but has 6 of datasets).
Maybe sacrifice one or two for the goodwill of the livings :-) But a professional solution wold be better.
Anyone who want to sell such a converter cable?
http://store.go4retro.com/products/uIEC_SD.html
One nice housing
https://www.commodoreserver.com/BlogEntryView.asp?BID=D31E7915D4204192A741061BD5C7C99D&EID=0B55CA414691476BBDCFE6A995A1E0CB
Also want to add one SD card cartridge to Spectrum. It also has that feature. :-)
http://baze.au.com/divide/
Is anyone who has any experience on uIEC card, how stable and compatible it is with demos and a fastloaders?
Thanks.
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OLD POST from 2009 -06
Hi,
These things cannot work with Plus/4 (especially not with C16) due to cartrige surface
As 1541 Ultimate has a high Commodore compatibility mode, it is the ideal for +4/C16, supporting fastloaders, etc
BUT because we can use only a small part of all features, from price/performance point of view it has troubles. Cost ~100€, but you cannot use Ethernet and Final Cartride part (as for that Interface board connection needed, which fits to C64/C128 only), also DMA loading is not possible. So you pay a lot of featured built in, but you cannot use.
SD2IEC is also OK, and much cheaper (60€ with dautherboard). It also able to support some fastloaders, but less compatible... Who knows, if higher compatibility worth 40€ extra ? 
uIEC/SD is new for me. Seems to be the cheapest, ~65USD (~45€?) with shipping cost, and using SD2IEC firmaware... Prob ably the same compatibility. Very small.
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