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- From: nelemans@ct.utwente.nl (Yvo Nelemans)
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.cbm
- Subject: Re: 64SERVER problem w/X1541 cable
- Date: Thu, 08 Feb 96 20:05:37 GMT
- Organization: nelemans@ct.utwente.nl
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- >I constructed an X1541 cable per instructions from several sources.
- >Here's what happens when I use it:
- >Star Commander and TRANS64 can be used when it is hooked up to a 1541,
- >and I have successfully copied files from my PC hard drive onto a 1541
- >and run the programs on my 64.
-
- The cable seems to be fine so that's not the problem.
-
- >SERVER64 is supposed to be able to use the same cable to connect the
- >parallel port of the PC directly to the IEEE port of the 64, and treat
- >the PC HD as a pseudo-1541 fileserver visible from the 64 as device 8.
- >BUT- when I try to use it for this purpose, the 64 locks up as soon as
- >the program is run.
- >
- >WHY, oh WHY????
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- Do you have 2 parallel ports. Look if you are not using the wrong one.
- This will lockup the C64 (just tried it).
- Else what kind of PC do you have. I've tested it on a Pentium 100 and a
- 386DX-40, the only thing I can think of is that the timing routines in
- SERVER64 are to critical for you (PC to slow).
- I did get some messages from other people who said they had it working.
- One had a 486.
-
- At the moment I'm working to emulate the 1541 more closely using .D64
- files as disks. I've put a unfinished version which can use D64 files up
- at ccnga.uwaterloo.ca in /pub/cbm/INCOMING/emulator/ser64_65.zip
-
- Groetjes
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- Yvo
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