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- From: dross@firefly.prairienet.org (Dave Ross)
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.cbm
- Subject: 1540 with C=64?
- Date: 3 Apr 1996 05:19:53 GMT
- Organization: University of Illinois at Urbana
- Message-ID: <4jt1pp$1t0@vixen.cso.uiuc.edu>
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- -=> Quoting Gsz@bbcnc.org.uk to All <=-
-
- Gs> I've acquired a VIC 1540 single drive from someone who couldn't get
- Gs> it to work with their C=64. Can anyone advise me what I'd need to do
- Gs> to get the 1540 to work with MY C=64 :-) (some kind of upgrade needed,
- Gs> presumably?)
-
- For all practical intents and purposes, the 1540 is useless with a c64.
- Mine is going to be hooked up to my VIC once I get all my equipment set
- up. The problem with the 1540 is that it's designed for the VIC-20, and
- therefore was released before the release of the c64. The VIC chip in
- the VIC-20 only has to deal with a 20-column video screen, and therefore
- uses up less of the CPU's time. The VIC in the c64 steals time from the
- CPU, causing the c64 to have a slower serial bus than the VIC-20.
-
- The VIC-1540 expects the faster bus speed and wont slow down to accomodate
- a slower bus. The only way to make it talk to a c64 is to blank the
- screen by effectively turning off the VIC. The pokes to do this are:
-
- FOO=PEEK(53265):REM This gives you the value to turn the screen back on.
- POKE 53265, (FOO AND 8)
- <disk access>
- POKE 53265, FOO
-
- The only problem with this method is that you can't see what you are doing
- when you try to access the drive. My friend tried hooking my 1540 to his
- c64 with a fastloader that, among other things, blanked the screen, but
- it still wouldn't talk to it.
-
- As a side note, there is a command that can be sent over channel 15 to
- put a 1541 in 1540 mode, with the faster bus speed.
-
- To the best of my knowledge, there is no magic upgrade to make it work
- with the c64.
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