Posted By
MIK
on 2023-04-06
01:56:42
 |  Re: [Help] Calling UK users!
Graham,
If you still have your machine and it's working..., this might be just the thing your looking for... A SD2IEC drive for your Plus/4.
SD2IEC example: https://www.thefuturewas8bit.com/shop/commodore/sd2iec-c.html
C16/Plus4 cassette port power cable: https://www.thefuturewas8bit.com/c16-plus4-sd2iec-power-tail-mod.html
SD2IEC emulates a C64 style floppy drive, it uses a standard SD card as one massive floppy disc for .prg & .d64 files. You can LOAD/SAVE to it using a real C16/Plus4 or C64 ect and anything you download to PC you can copy to the SD card for your C16/Plus4 to enjoy!
There is also a little C16 loader program that lists everything on the SD card when using the real machines, including stuff in folders and one click on the file and it will start to load. Very easy, the only thing to remember is to make sure your download file names on the SD card are no longer than 12 letters, or 16 if you include .PRG at the end so they are easy to read on C16/Plus/4.
Example: "MY SOFTWARE".PRG
That's 11 letters including the space for the file name. Anything longer than 12 letters will not show in full on the real hardware. What you have on PC makes no difference if it's 12 or 30 letters, just the real machines this applies.
And going back to your tape...
Each of your programs on the tape, load each one on Plus/4 and then save to SD using SAVE"MY PROG 1",8
Once on SD card your free to copy, share or do what ever with your PC. And of course there are many hundreds of programs on this site you can download and use on your real machine.
Check out Youtube video's for more info, just to see if it's something that would interest you. They also sell them on ebay but the price is more expensive!
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