Posted By
corpsicle
on 2014-12-13
10:56:24
|  Writing .d64 from Princess sd2iec to real floppy drive
As topic says.
Is there a tool to write .d64 to floppy?
Or can i open the .d64 on the Princess and use a copy program to just make a backup to the 1541-ii ?
If so, what program would be best for this task ?
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Posted By
retroscener
on 2014-12-13
12:53:32
 | Re: Writing .d64 from Princess sd2iec to real floppy drive
Unfortunately I'm away for Christmas so cannot adequately answer your question. I am guessing that it will take a standard copy program tool which you copy to your SD card (someone may point to you a good one), and that the 1541-ii might be configured as device 9?
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Posted By
corpsicle
on 2014-12-13
13:01:33
| Re: Writing .d64 from Princess sd2iec to real floppy drive
Yea thats the theory im working with atm.
But i also realise i didnt get any cables to actually connect a 1541-ii as a second device when using the serial cable to connect it to the plus4 ... i guess i could plug the Princess into the back of the 1541-ii?
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Posted By
retroscener
on 2014-12-13
13:29:08
| Re: Writing .d64 from Princess sd2iec to real floppy drive
Hmm... Just make sure you follow the proper instructions. There's quite a lot of Do's and Don't's which could fry your Princess (that sounds quite bad lol). Don't take any chances with this device.
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Posted By
corpsicle
on 2014-12-15
13:16:26
| Re: Writing .d64 from Princess sd2iec to real floppy drive
Definitely looks interesting! Thanks.
I realise that the princess won't fit in the back of the 1541 either however.
Ill need to get a male->female serial cable.
*** edit ***
I was being silly connection-wise.
Obviously i can just connect the 1541-ii as normal and then the princess to the 1541-ii. =)
Anyway, that software probably does what i want, but im having a hard time finding out what the path to the .d64 image should be.
*** edit 2 ***
Ok that was ALSO not as hard as i thought.
The default dir was actually the dir where the d64-it image was.
However when i start writing to floppy the drive light goes on, and i hear it starting, and on screen it says "converting, track 1" and then it stops there.
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Posted By
hawui1
on 2014-12-15
14:23:24
| Re: Writing .d64 from Princess sd2iec to real floppy drive
Keep into account that C64SD Princess, like all of the other SD2IEC based projects, does not emulate 100% a REAL 1541 drive. Almost all the copiers are using low level commands and tricks an SD2IEC emulation is not able to work with.
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Posted By
corpsicle
on 2014-12-15
15:19:39
| Re: Writing .d64 from Princess sd2iec to real floppy drive
Yes thats the reason i need to write for example demos with trackloaders to a real floppy disk.
Surely it must be possible to write a program that writes a d64 to a real 1541?
Or rather, there are a few, but i have still not gotten any to work.
CBMCommand seemed to write the disk correctly but it crashed wierdly when i tried to load the demo.
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