Posted By
TLC
on 2010-04-25
03:12:04
|  Re: PC to 1541
With an XE1541 at hand, your best bet should be Star Commander http://sta.c64.org/. SC would suggest DOS (FreeDOS, or a DOS boot of Win95/Win98/ME), though, it should be useable in multitasking environments to some extent. Please refer to this page: http://sta.c64.org/scdoc.html#section5, especially the "Operating system-specific extra requirements for running the Commander and accessing Commodore drives" part.
(For a quickstart, I'd suggest copying stuff (the Commander, some disk image files etc.) to a flashdrive, booting up from a FreeDOS livecd, and try if it works (...first, if you can access the flashdrive from FreeDOS at all -- most of the time you can, if you can't you can probably enable some legacy USB "emulation" in you PC's bios setup). If you succeed transferring disk images from/to the 1541, you can go on tweaking things so that it'd also work from your multitasking environment).
I'd say you can't really go further at this point because all the other stuff (OpenCBM which is designed to work under multitasking operating environments) requires at least an XM1541.
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