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- From: msmakela@cc.helsinki.fi (Marko MΣkelΣ)
- Subject: Re: Fixed disk to C64
- Message-ID: <1992Dec17.212320.1@cc.helsinki.fi>
- Lines: 23
- Sender: news@klaava.Helsinki.FI (Uutis Ankka)
- Organization: University of Helsinki
- References: <BzEqyI.5M5@cs.vu.nl>
- Date: Thu, 17 Dec 1992 19:23:20 GMT
-
- In article <BzEqyI.5M5@cs.vu.nl>, ekoperen@cs.vu.nl (Koperen van EB) writes:
- > Has anybody thought abaut the following way to do it:
- >
- > a: make some files on the harddisk off your pc. those will
- > be " disks " .
- > b: get the pc to emulate a 1541, and use those files.
- > c: get the c64 to use the pc as a drive.
-
- Yes, that would be the easiest way. But if you have a PC, why would you use
- C64, which is much slower, has smaller keyboard, more coarse graphics etc.?
- However, if the PC was real PC with <200kB memory, no 486 or better, it could
- be reasonable.
-
- The PC should not emulate 1541 so strictly. It could provide subdirectories and
- everything like that. And the PC could be used as a buffered RS232 interface as
- well: it could even handle the file transfers internally, not loading C64.
-
- BTW: Was the C64 - PC interface described earlier parallel, from C64 user port
- to PC Centronics port?
-
- Regards,
- Marko MΣkelΣ
- msmakela@cc.helsinki.fi
-