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Some Commodore users used s with expanded RAM as an impromptu math coprocessor by uploading math-intensive code to the drive for background processing. There was an article in the german 64'er magazine for doing so, but with rather confusing schematics and no layout. I'll need to find someone with an oscilloscope to find out what's going on here. Commodore proprietary serial IEEE 0. There are patches in both 8k halves. To ensure a ready supply of inexpensive cabling for its home computer peripherals, Commodore chose standard DIN connectors for the serial interface. I've finally uploaded all the source and binary archives to sourceforge.

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In addition, Commodore made the drive's controller board smaller and reduced its chip count compared to the early s which had a large PCB running the length of the case, with dozens of TTL chips. However, since both the computer and the drive can easily be reprogrammed, third parties quickly wrote more vcc1541 firmware that would speed up drive operations drastically.

With the present disk drive, vf1541, it is hard-pressed to lose its image as a toy. The ROM checksum is correct. Also, a software solution, which resides in the drive controller's ROM, prevents the rereads from occurring, though this could cause problems when genuine errors did occur.

Torsten Paul - Sun Oct 10 In any case, the C64 normally could not work with a unless the VIC-II video output was disabled via a register write, which would increase the CPU speed enough to be able to access it.

Few of these schemes had much deterrent effect, as various software companies soon released " nibbler " utilities that enabled protected disks to be copied and, in some cases, the protection removed. The 's numerous shortcomings opened a market for a number of third-party clones of the disk drive, a situation that continued for the lifetime of the C Views Read Edit View history.

Unlike the Apple II, where support for two drives was normal, it was relatively uncommon for Commodore software to support this setup, and the CBM DOS copy file command was not even able to copy files between drives--a third party copy utility must be used instead. Due to the alignment issues on the Alps drive mechanisms, Commodore switched suppliers to Newtronics in The first drives produced in have a label on the front reading VIC and have an off-white case to match the VIC Become vvc1541 member to follow this project and never miss vx1541 updates.

Some little bugs are still there so it will need some more testing In other projects Wikimedia Commons.

Does this project spark your interest? It really should be possible to do cycle exact IO with a fast PC. Once track zero is reached, every further attempt to move the head in that direction would cause it to be rammed against a solid stop: The Newtronics mechanism drives have a lever rather than a pull-down tab to close the drive door.

The disk typically has 35 tracks.

Commodore VC1541-mod for PET/CBM-Computers

Archived from the original on This ROM has an autobooting feature: To make the experience fit your profile, pick a username and tell us what interests you. When sending bytes around are ok, but the other ones are not: Commodore 64VIC [3]. This style of drive has the popular nickname "Toaster Drive", because it requires the use of a knife or vc1514 hard thin object to pry out the stuck media just like a piece of toast stuck in an actual toaster though this is inadvisable with actual toasters.

Inthe was switched to having the familiar beige case and a front vd1541 reading simply "" along with rainbow stripes to match the Commodore This version uses a Newtronics drive mechanism, and the rotating lever is used gc1541 engage the drive mechanism with the disk i.

This ramming gives the characteristic "machine gun" noise and sooner or later throws the head out of alignment.

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The pre-II s also have an internal power source, which generate much heat. I don't know if I find the time to work on this project soon Only later when first, Fast Hack'emthen other disk backup programs, were released, was true drive-to-drive copying possible for a pair of s.

If you add the byte values together adc data: According to it, a also exists, but not in North America. Pick an awesome username.