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From: TLC (all posts)
Date: 1998-09-06
Subject: Re: 1551 drive, was Re: your mail
Hi!

On Sun, 6 Sep 1998 12:42:15 +0100 (BST), Richard Atkinson wrote:

> Yesterday I bought a 1551 drive, in its original box with manual and
> diskettes

Yess!!! Won't you be persuaded to obtain another one for Marko? :-) He asked me to look for one a long time ago, but neither me nor Crown succeeded. ...Well, while a Plus/4 is waiting for him by me since half a year :-(.

>, but I have had a lot of trouble loading certain demos. Since I
> am new to the strange and wonderful world of the TCBM interface, could
> anyone tell me: is this normal? Are there many cases of 1551
> incompatibility? I would have assumed that any program that didn't use
> standard kernal routines would have been made 1551 aware, but maybe not?
> Were there many 1541-only demos?

This is normal. There were indeed a lot of Plus/4 programs written for
1541 and recognizing no 1551 at all.

> Now I want another one :-) (to plug into the back of the first one and
> look *really* silly)

Maybe, you know this. It's possible 2 do. Just disassemble the new drive's TCBM interface plug and cut some jumpers, to make it listen to
#9. ...But first make some free place on your tablet :-).

Levente

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