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| From: Crown (all posts)
Date: 1998-06-29
Subject: Re: LONG ONE!
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Yo,
>Are you using a parallel 1541 drive on your plus/4? I have two 1541 II
>drives (two different ones, though. One ejects the disk and one which
>doesn't. The ejecting one is 1000 times better... The other one bugs
>regularly if speeders go up to the limits) but none is parallel connected.
>I'm really not into hardware, figuering out which is the hot side of a
>solder is already too much :) But SOLDER could build the
>parallel connection if somebody would post a layout!
Parallel connected drives was quite common, but I guess as the scene changed some knowledge was lost also. It's quite simple, in the 1541
there is a free parallel port which is not used normally, all you have to do is put an extra connector on your 1541 and lead the port lines into that. On the Plus4 there is a 6529 parallel port which is available in the User Port. You have to connect the two port with a cable and thats all. With the C16 it is a bit different, as there is no 6529 is available in it. Our solution was to put a 8255 into the C16. For a better description and other C16 alternatives check Levente's CLINK, there is a very good doc in it about these things.
Pigmy wrote a lot of parallel copier, loader, and even saver progys.
The fastest copier was either 9sec or 15sec (I don't remember exactly).
The disk changes took more time, than the actual reading and writings!!!
Hmmm, it doesn't had a 256k version, but as I'm thinking about it that could make it much faster.
>> This was the worst on parties, where everybody wanted to copy everything,
>> of course, fast; since 1551's were not much popular (they still aren't
>> much popular at all), some people used modified parallel 1541's with
>> the copier above. With no error check, of course :-(.
>
>Yeah... The same happend to me on a party in Neustadt in 1991, organized
>with DAN (at that time still TRACK 0). Back then, I just had a 1551
>drive... Unfortunately, I only got HD Disks (actually my good 1541 II
>works fine with HD disks!)... So I copied 20 disks full of HOTTEST
>STUFF and a week later I wasn't able to read a single file without bugs!
Strange... I had never got a problem like this... Of course are always used either Pigmy's or my programs to copy... :)
>> However, is there somebody on this list to look for an 1551 for Marko?
>> ..He asked me to look for one (since it's still much more popular in
>> HU than even Germany), but I found none. Also, I own no 1551.
>
>I always wanted a second 1551, too. So I checked the COMPUTER FLOHMARKT
>(vintage computer stuff) and others... The Problem is, people ususally
>want around 120 DM for a 1551. I'm living on a rather limited budget
120DM ??? That's a lot. For this you can get a complete config here,
Plus4+drive+joy+disks!!!
To Levente (where to buy 1551 tip) (sorry this will be hungarian)
Nezd meg a Varosligetben a Petofi Csarnoknal a bolhapiacot. Szombat-
vasarnap delelott vannak. Altalaban szokott lenni ilyesmi is, persze lehet, hogy egybol nem fogsz kapni. Az en mostani C16-osom is onnan szarmazik, 3000 Ft volt. Kiprobalni nem nagyon lehet a dolgokat,
ugyhogy nem biztos, hogy mukodnek is, de peldaul alkatresz beszerzeshez is idealis (TED,CPU) ...
Oppsss, most neztem meg az e-mail cimed, jol latom, hogy nem pesten vagy?
Ha nem, akkor majd megprobalok koran felkelni jovo hetvegen, es megnezem hogy lehet-e kapni... Ok?
>Was heißt Sonnenuntergang auf finnisch?
>Hellsinki!
:)))
>Eleven American soldiers are raping a German girl. She screams: "Nein,
>nein!" Two soldiers leave...
:)))))))))))))
>problem of the plus/4 scene was also that almost nobody ever said a word
>about appreciation... If you get no response you'll quit coding! Anyway, I
>think we could make it cool again!
I got it... You remember the postcard with Eddie? :-)
I also got some cool postcards from Holland.
Tibor Biczo / Crown of GOTU
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