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- From: csbruce@ccnga.uwaterloo.ca (Craig Bruce)
- Subject: Re: Pc to c64
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- Message-ID: <DM226y.L45@undergrad.math.uwaterloo.ca>
- Date: Wed, 31 Jan 1996 17:06:33 GMT
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-
- bob masse <kh6zv9@victoria.pe.net> wrote:
- >: I find that the best way to do this is to use Big Blue Reader. It will
- >: work with a 1581 drive. If you can't find Big Blue Reader or can't
- >: afford to pay, there is a PD version called Little Red Reader.
- >
- >I believe that Little Red Reader only works on a C= 128....
-
- This is correct. It is amazing how often mis-information about Little Red
- Reader gets circulated around.
-
- Here is the straight poop:
-
- Little Red Reader is a program that allows a C128 (but not a C64) to copy
- files to and from MS-DOS floppy disks. The menu-driven program requires two
- disk drives to work, where the one containing the MS-DOS disk must be a
- 1571, 1581, or CMD-FD. With the CMD FD's, the program supports the 1.44-MB
- (high-density) disk format. The program does not buffer data internally, so
- the only size restriction on copying is the capacity of the target disk.
- The program provides PETSCII/ASCII conversion but will work only with the
- root directories of MS-DOS disks. The program is also available via FTP and
- is FREE. It appears that the latest version (2.00) is not compatible with
- RAM-DOS.
-
- Keep on Hackin'!
-
- -Craig Bruce
- csbruce@ccnga.uwaterloo.ca
- "The irony, of course, is that if the entire herd of deer were to turn and
- trample the tiger, the tiger wouldn't stand a chance."
-