Posted By
TLC
on 2005-10-15
12:45:40
|  Re: Using Commodore 1541 disk drive on a Commodore + 4
JamesC:
a) Yep. They also marketed one for the C64 (for C64, there were also a couple of third-party IEEE-488 interfaces available). I don't know of any "official" (either CBM or third party) IEEE-488 cartridge for the Plus/4 either. (I know of a hacked -- or better said, ported -- one, which just shows that it was possible... just not really needed by anyone ).
2) So?...
iii) It would probably not work (or if it did, the OS of the MSD must be very clever).
The point isn't that it was actually done (or done regularly) ; the point was, that if there is a dual CBM drive, and it speaks CBM DOS, then it's given, how you can access drive0 and drive1. ...If they once implemented support for this CBM DOS feature in Basic, then there it was, even if they actually never produced a true serial or TCBM dual drive (that could be connected to the Plus/4 easily). ...They just didn't remove this feature from the Basic of the Plus/4. ...I guess.
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