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************ Topic 26 Sat Feb 25, 1995 C.HANNA (Forwarded) Sub: computereyes-vidio aquisitoin Info in c.Eyes. software and hardware. What is the pinout on c.eyes by digitalvision? info on commodore version and Ami...atarri versoin also. 1 message(s) total. ************ ------------ Category 4, Topic 26 Message 1 Sat Feb 25, 1995 C.HANNA (Forwarded) I aquired a computereyes vidio aquisition mpp module fromsalvation army for 70 cents. The darned thing is for an atari I think. I would like it to work with my c64/128s. I figure the internal hardware is the same foreither the c64 or atari. The p big differencte is the connector to the o computer. The connector on this one, serial n0.2554a, is a 16 pin chip type connector with 2 rows of 8 pins...like a chk chip. I woi would ki like to hook this into a connector for the 64type user port...thus i need the pinout for the c.euyes. I ay nyone out there has a a c.eyes and can tell me how the connector is hooked up internaly it would be of great help! I imagin it would just mean opening up the case and writing down the connections . I Hope1. Is digital vision around somewhere ? If so where and whome should I contact. thanks c. hanna ------------ ************ Topic 27 Sun Sep 25, 1994 W.MAALOULI [vorticon] at 18:42 EDT Sub: 1581 not recognized by C64 My C64 absolutely refuses to recognize my 1581 drive, but works fine with my 1541. The 1581 is fully recognized by my C128. I tried all possible Unit# combinations to no avail. Any ideas? thanks! 14 message(s) total. ************ ------------ Category 4, Topic 27 Message 1 Sun Oct 02, 1994 H.STEVENS5 [HaroldOH] at 10:22 EDT Is your 1581 set up as device #9? Because if you have your 1541 set up as device #8, it will not recognize the 1581 (as mine will not and I have a 64C). Give this a try by setting the dip switches on the back. The same can also be done for at 1541-II, which also has the dip switches in the rear. When I was a member of a local Commodore user group I found quite a few people who did not realize they could change the device setting with a 1581. --Harold ------------ Category 4, Topic 27 Message 2 Sun Oct 02, 1994 W.MAALOULI [vorticon] at 17:55 EDT Thanks for the advice Harold, but I found the source of my troubles: You see, I had a datasette connected to my C64 in addition to my 1541 and 1581 drives. When I disconnected the datasette, the C64 recognized my 1581 as device#9! I have no clue why this happened, and would very much apreciate if anybody had a technical explanation for this weird behavior... ------------ Category 4, Topic 27 Message 3 Sun Oct 02, 1994 C128.JBEE at 18:54 EDT I never heard of that combination being a problem but I would not doubt that it could be since the 1581 was probably not extensively tested with a datacassette attached. I am going to have to remember this one. Willing to bet any printer interfaces that use the cassette port might also cause the same type of problem? ------------ Category 4, Topic 27 Message 4 Sun Oct 02, 1994 CMD-DOUG at 21:59 EDT Probably not on the printer interfaces, JBEE; those only use the cassette port to pick up +5 VDC, whereas the cassette uses some of the same signals that the disk drives do. ------------ Category 4, Topic 27 Message 5 Mon Oct 03, 1994 M.RANDALL2 [Maurice] at 00:11 EDT I've had a similar problem with my SX-64. I installed a CMD-HD inside the SX. The SX would work with it's own internal 1541 and the HD with no problem, but when I plugged a 1581 into the serial port, it would just lock up when trying to access the 1581. I could use it OK with an additional 1541 plugged into the serial port. So, I got to thinking that the 1581 uses a line on the serial port that the 1541 does not. This is the SRQ line. The HD also uses this line. The 1581 worked fine with the SX before I added the HD. Since the HD is capable of controlling the serial bus, I decided to cut the SRQ line coming from the HD. Lo and behold the 1581 began to work with this SX-64 with internal hard drive. The HD also continued to function just fine without the SRQ line connected. Everything has been running fine for about a month now. I even have a 1750 (just the motherboard) inside the SX connected via a ribbon cable that is soldered to the expansion board. This allows me to still use the standard cartridge port. This SX is a pretty nice one-piece GEOS machine. ------------ Category 4, Topic 27 Message 6 Mon Oct 03, 1994 H.HERMAN1 at 04:50 EDT WOW! Maurice! That certainly is a sweet GEOS SX-64 you have! :) As to the 1581/datasette combination causing 1581 burps, this is actually a well known bug. I am *surprised* that all of you did not know this.... Fred Bowen referred to this, shortly after the 1581 was introduced. Howie ------------ Category 4, Topic 27 Message 7 Tue Oct 04, 1994 W.MAALOULI [vorticon] at 20:09 EDT Well, somebody has to learn the hard way! How else could we have something to talk about here? :) By the way, I have no trouble when my printer interface is connected. ------------ Category 4, Topic 27 Message 8 Sat Oct 08, 1994 H.STEVENS5 [HaroldOH] at 08:40 EDT Hey, I had forgotten about the Datasette causing the problem. I experienced the same thing when I borrowed my brother's Datasette that he had with his old VIC-20. I was transferring some VIC-20 files that I found on our user group's BBS and I found that my 1581 would not work with the Datasette either. (I was trying to load the files from the 3.5" disk, which is where I place files that are downloaded from BBS.) And Maurice, have you found a way to stick a RAMLink in that souped up SX-64 of yours yet? :) If you find a way to do that, then you will have a laptop that would give serious competition to the PCs and Macs. --Harold ------------ Category 4, Topic 27 Message 9 Sun Oct 09, 1994 M.RANDALL2 [Maurice] at 18:54 EDT As it stands right now, I could install a RamLink in the SX, but it would require one of two things. I am currently using a 3.5 inch hard drive mechanism. If I replaced it with a 2.5 inch drive, I could probably fit the RamLink board where the drive is located. Then I could put the 2.5 inch HD next to the HD board and RL board with it sitting on it's side. Another method would be to eliminate the 1541 and install a 3.5 inch floppy such as an FD in it's place. There would be a little extra room in the area of the drive mechanism, but not enough for the RL. But I would also be able to eliminate a large circuit board that controls the 1541. The FD board is somewhat smaller and the RL might go in there with it. As for the switches, they could go right on the front panel along with the HD switches. I probably won't put a RamLink in there, though. The idea is to make this unit portable. I would have the problem of keeping the RL powered while transporting the SX. The HD is plenty fast enough, and will be even faster when I get my parallel driver for GEOS finished. The HD's parallel port will be connected to both the serial port and the user port. The parallel port will only be used with GEOS. This will speed it up considerably and I suspect it will be about 5-7 times as fast during data transfers. ------------ Category 4, Topic 27 Message 10 Sun Oct 09, 1994 H.HERMAN1 at 22:43 EDT Maurice, What you say about RAMLink and portability is too true. A member of my club who demonstrated his RAMLink at a meeting, had to make elaborate plans to delicately transport his RAMLink with battery cable attached. I supposed this effort could have been avoided if he brought in a dumb RAMLink, but then what would be the point. To his delight, the RAMLink was transported to the club, and back, and maintained its full memory. Howie ------------ Category 4, Topic 27 Message 11 Mon Oct 10, 1994 GEOS-TIM at 21:40 EDT >A member of my club who demonstrated his RAMlink at a meeting, had to > elaborate plans to delicately transport his RAMLink with battery cable > attached. I use a RamDrive daily between my work and home. It generally transports pretty well with memory intact. A couple of times a week I have to reinstall my dos (RD doesn't have it in a chip) but other than that I've had fair luck with it. The battery is internal so you can pop it into your pocket. Disadvantage: It takes up your cartridge port. :) -Tim ------------ Category 4, Topic 27 Message 12 Fri Oct 14, 1994 L.SCHONDER [C128.LOU] at 18:35 EDT My RamLink survived a tornado. Well, the twister was across the street. ;) 14 hours w/no power, RL was intact! ------------ Category 4, Topic 27 Message 13 Sat Oct 15, 1994 H.HERMAN1 at 16:33 EDT Lou, That is indeed good. We ought to appoint someone to keep track of these and other RAMLink disastor survivals. Howie ------------ Category 4, Topic 27 Message 14 Sun Oct 16, 1994 S.EYRSE [steve] at 15:28 EDT If your 1581 is not being seen by the 64 but will work with the 128 have you tried swaping cables? The 1581 uses more pins than the 1541. Thus it needs a cable that has all of the pins conected. You might have that one on the 128 so it works fine and a "OLDER" type on the 64 which won't work with the '81. This drive also is susceptible to the RF (radio frequency) that your monitor gives off. If you SUDDENLY get errors of a read nature and it is not going above track 14 it is this and you need to move the drive away from the monitor. Or as in my case where I had a monitor sitting on a rack I built with the drives under it. I put some alum. foil under the monitor t act as a shield. That did the trick. ------------ ************ Topic 28 Sat Sep 10, 1994 E.ALBERTSON at 00:02 EDT Sub: HELP, CONVERSION OF C64 FILES TO DOS MY C-64 HAS BROKEN DOWN AND I WOULD LIKE TO TRANSFER SOME WORD PROCESSING FILES (BANK STREET WRITER) TO FIRST CHOICE (DOS) ANYONE KNOW A GOOD UTILITY 15 message(s) total. ************ ------------ Category 4, Topic 28 Message 1 Tue Sep 13, 1994 R.HARRIS1 [Randy Harris] at 01:38 EDT Big Blue Reader is the utility to do this. However, you will need to have a working 64 or 128 to run Bank Street Writer and have it convert those files to ASCII format(if it can, I'm not sure). Then to make Big Blue Reader work, you must have access to a 1571 hooked up to a 64 or 128. ------------ Category 4, Topic 28 Message 2 Tue Sep 13, 1994 C128.JBEE at 02:36 EDT Too bad that is not a small reputable company providing this kind of service. There is a need for it. ------------ Category 4, Topic 28 Message 3 Tue Sep 13, 1994 G.NOGGLE [Greg] at 21:01 EDT I don't think bank street writer has that ability, at least mine doesn't. However those files can be converted using Big Blue reader without a working copy of Bank Street Writer. I have done this, the only to watch out for is watch out when converting lower/upper case. Alth ugh to run Big Blue Reader you need a working C64 or 128 I believer Bank Street Writer uses PetAscii, and I think the word writer series uses straight ASCII or vice versa(I have both and get them confused sometimes). The other way to do it would be the program x1541,or a new one 64net (which I haven't tried yet). I believe there utility's out there to convert a Pet Ascii file to straight Ascii. These program are probally are on Genie(They exist for the Amiga :) ). I don't work with a straight Dos machine enough to know for sure. X1541 might even have that capibility,I have just used it to temporarilly store files on the wifes hard drive(she wasn't happy :). I think also there is c64 emulator for the ibm now,however for whatever you do you need a working Commdore disk drive Greg ------------ Category 4, Topic 28 Message 4 Tue Sep 13, 1994 L.SCHONDER [C128.LOU] at 21:08 EDT E. Albertson, there IS a small company that does conversions. Me. E-Mail me if you are interested. ------------ Category 4, Topic 28 Message 5 Tue Sep 20, 1994 J.HUFTALEN at 17:22 EDT There's an emulator that just came out in may called the C64s which is supposed to allow one to port over all of your programs and files to an IBM machine and allow you 100% compatability. There was a review of it on Compute's May Gazette Disk. I don't remember the name of the company but I think its located in Seattle. I hope they come out with one for the 128! ------------ Category 4, Topic 28 Message 6 Thu Mar 02, 1995 W.GRACE1 at 00:46 EST I know there's got to be a C64 emulator for the IBM. I just bought a CD-Rom for the IBM, and tucked away on it are 100 C-64 programs. Now if I could hatch up a way to get them to my friend who has a C-64. Sound like a job for a modem - or the local Commodore / Amiga bulletin board. Any other thoughts on this? -Bill ------------ Category 4, Topic 28 Message 7 Thu Mar 02, 1995 THE.OUTLAW at 06:05 EST Bill, You can find an emulator in the Internet RT library (pg 1405;3) - 14361 C64ALIVE.ZIP X J.FULMER 940531 78264 34 29 DESC: Emulate C64 on your 386 machine 19707 C64S09A.ZIP X WILL.LINDEN 950102 91096 20 29 These will work for you if you wish to look at what you have. If you want to get these to your friend, the easiest way would be an upload/downlod session between the two of you via phone/modem. I think you will need to use a DOS Comm program and upload the programs to him and he will download from you. If you have a local Commodore BBS, they might be interested in the files you have as long as they are Public Domain files :> Then you could share them with other C= users in the area! :> ------------ Category 4, Topic 28 Message 8 Thu Mar 02, 1995 JON at 23:24 EST Not sure if it's the same, but I downloaded the C64S emulator from CompuServe and all the programs I've tried, including games, work. It's V1.1 and is a Shareware program. The unregistered version boots you back to DOS after 10 minutes. If there is fully working version on the Internet then it may be hacked... ------------ Category 4, Topic 28 Message 9 Fri Mar 03, 1995 D.TUOMI [Doctor] at 03:30 EST Also the 64Net software allows you to use a PC as a disk drive on the Commodore, so you could actually load a program directly from the CD-ROM onto a standard 64 to play. The conference on it is in the library here. Doc. ------------ Category 4, Topic 28 Message 10 Thu Mar 09, 1995 C128.JBEE at 23:19 EST The C-64 emulator (C64emu.zip) was removed from our libraries because: 1) It contained pirated commercial software. 2) It contained pirated ROM code. In the FWIW category, the original screen on the C-64 looks much better than the emulation on the PC. The games you found on the CD-ROM most likely will only run directly from the PC, unless you are willing to go through a lot of hassles. You are better off downloading games from here to send to your friend. I would not register shareware that contained pirated games and ROM code. ------------ Category 4, Topic 28 Message 11 Fri Mar 10, 1995 D.TUOMI [Doctor] at 21:42 EST They released another version of the C64emu.zip that has been floating around that does not contain the copyrighted games. As to the ROM code, many of the emulators use C64 ROM code for their base. Since Commodore has been in liquidation, many of these people have not been able to get a license to use the Commodore code, nor has anyone been actively persuing any copyright infringements. Assuming that I could find a copy of the EMU that doesn't contain the code, would you accept it as an upload? Doc. ------------ Category 4, Topic 28 Message 12 Tue Apr 04, 1995 C128.JBEE at 16:41 EDT E.ALBERTSON, Without a working C-64 you are going to have to rely on someone with a working Commodore to transfer the files to a DOS disk, at the very least. The best way would be to convert them on the C-64 to ASCII text files and then transfer them to PC disks. ------------ Category 4, Topic 28 Message 13 Tue Apr 04, 1995 C128.JBEE at 16:42 EDT Doctor, As long as C64EMU.ZIP does not contain either the ROM code or the pirated games it would be okay. ------------ Category 4, Topic 28 Message 14 Thu Apr 06, 1995 D.TUOMI [Doctor] at 22:51 EDT Who currently own the rights to the ROM code, the liquidators? Doc. ------------ Category 4, Topic 28 Message 15 Sat Apr 08, 1995 C128.JBEE at 10:12 EDT Commodore owns the right to the code. Whoever buys Commodore will own the ROM code. Though previous licenses I imagine are in effect until canceled by either Commodore, the new owner, or the licensee. ------------ ************ Topic 29 Sun Oct 09, 1994 M.COCHRANE2 [Mr.Mikey] at 11:35 EDT Sub: Supra Peak Interface Just got hold of a Supra Peak modem interface. Does anyone know if it is useful for speeds above 2400? Thanx, Mike :) 3 message(s) total. ************ ------------ Category 4, Topic 29 Message 1 Sun Oct 09, 1994 M.COCHRANE2 [Mr.Mikey] at 11:41 EDT I just got a Supra Peak interface for almost a song, but don't know if I'll be able to use it above 2400. I don't have a modem for it yet, and don't wanna get a 9600 modem if I can't use it. (I'm on a 1670 now). Thanx ------------ Category 4, Topic 29 Message 2 Sun Oct 09, 1994 CBM-ED [e.g.bell] at 18:39 EDT Mr. Mikey: MM> Supra Peak interface for almost a song, but don't know if I'll MM> be able to use it above 2400 The word has always been that DesTerm is able to support 9600 baud without a SwiftLink. I have seen few substantive complaints about that claim, so you should be safe if 9600 is the fastest you ever want to use. (The above assumes you are using a C128. If you are using a c64 all bets are off because you will need a SwiftLink cart to do it on that machine). If you want to eventually upgrade to a faster modem, you are going to need a SwiftLink no matter which machine, 64 or 128, that you use, and the Peak interface will not be of any value at all in that case. ------------ Category 4, Topic 29 Message 3 Tue Oct 11, 1994 M.COCHRANE2 [Mr.Mikey] at 02:45 EDT Thanx for the info. BTW, it's a 128 I'm a-poundin' on. I think I have Desterm 2.0 somewhere. :) ------------ ************ Topic 30 Wed Oct 12, 1994 E.KAZIBERDOV at 02:22 EDT Sub: Homebrew 64 accelerator Ideas on building an acellerator for the c=64 5 message(s) total. ************ ------------ Category 4, Topic 30 Message 1 Wed Oct 12, 1994 E.KAZIBERDOV at 02:39 EDT I've been scribbling down the idea of a 2mhz acellerator for the C=64, I havent really sat down to build it yet, does anyone out there know of a pjoject already done?? and if anyone can help me out a bit...I'll give you an idea of the design.. I'm trying to get the 6510 to run at 2mz async to the 1mhz buss, by using the 8mhz dot clock, and dividing it by 4. when the 1mhz clock is high the 6510 has the buss, and during that time will be running at 2mhz, doing twice the workload, when the 1mhz clock is low the vicii gets the buss and by a few gates the 6510 is brought back to 1mhz not to screw up any timing..(1mhz the real clock out of the vic) now the only problem i see is that the vic somethimes requires the high phase for mob and char fetches, it signals the 6510 via the ba (rdy) pin and the 3 cycles later (1mhz) the vic gets the buss the problem is at 2mhz is 6 clycles later, i was thinking of throwing in a shift register clocked with the 2mhz and delaying the ba signal by 3 cycles (2mhz) so it would align up properly with the 1mhz clock then switching the 6510 back to 1mhz for that cycle.. this is the theory... any with any help??? ------------ Category 4, Topic 30 Message 2 Fri Oct 14, 1994 L.SCHONDER [C128.LOU] at 18:37 EDT Would a 2 MHz speed be worth all of the work? Did you know that a 4 MHz cartridge exists? ------------ Category 4, Topic 30 Message 3 Fri Oct 14, 1994 C.EVANS32 at 22:42 EDT How about a 65816 processor, do something with the video, and, for once, make the thing SOMEWHAT compatible with what's out there? It could still use some of the CBM drives (a serial port) as well as some of the newer drives available for the Amiga, PC, etc. It DOESN'T need BASIC, just a trip into the 90's!!! ------------ Category 4, Topic 30 Message 4 Mon Oct 17, 1994 M.SMITH168 [Mike Smith] at 01:22 EDT A 2MHz accelerator design was apparently published in the German 64er magazine in the Feb 94 issue Cheers Mike S, Christchurch, New Zealand ------------ Category 4, Topic 30 Message 5 Wed Nov 09, 1994 E.KAZIBERDOV at 20:33 EST C128.LOU---> Well I was thinking of making a rather cheap homebrew easy accell, unfortunately there's nothing left availabl where I live for the 64, absolutely no arket used or new..etc... but if you know where I could still gt one of those turbomasters 4mhz lemme know!!! C.Evans--> New Video No problemo, the accelerator was the first part of my plan.. I was thinking of interfacing a totally new cpu in there, or keep the old one and add another I/O chip fer a few xtra adress lines to control a few megs of ram(somthing along the idea of the C=64 project to give ya 256 or 512k and A friend of mine has been playing around with interfacing a new graphics chip, but now he's trying to wire up an XT VGA Card to the 64 if that works I'll put it into a nice little arc with the drivers and stuff.. M.Smi-->A 2mhz project in a german Mag. if you got the article could you type a few points of it up of how they solved the video acess on the buss, without crashing the buss & timing... ------------ 4 |