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TLC
on 2011-01-12
09:32:00
 Re: Mass-Storage for Plus/4

If you ask me, then the answer is "both"...

Obtaining a recent version of sd2iec helps you keeping your files on an SD card (...you won't have to be dealing with floppies, at all, then...). Problem: the device is not a true floppy-drive replacement (it doesn't really emulate the floppy drive); you'll have problems with most programs that rely on fastloaders (or copy protection schemes). One possible way to overcome that: buy a 1541Ultimate, which is sort of similar in function (...actually, emulating a 1541 is just one of its features), but emulates the drive on the "hardware level".

With some of these "X*"-cables, you can transfer data to/from a real Commodore floppy drive. In general, the XM1541 and XA1541 cables "do" work for multitasking environments (Windows and Linux), provided that your machine has a parallel port, and you install OpenCBM (and optionally a GUI for that). The original X1541 cable doesn't work with recent (...say, past 10-15 years) parallel ports, and cables before the XM1541 (XE1541 and before) won't work in multitasking environments. The most recent news is Nate Lawson's XUM1541 a.k.a. ZoomFloppy (see other topic) which is USB based ie. steps away from using parallel ports + critical timings.



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