Re: Connecting a 1541 to a PC parallel port

From: silverdr_at_wfmh.org.pl Date: Tue, 24 Mar 2015 22:16:18 +0100 Message-ID: <5511D422.90408@wfmh.org.pl>

On 2015-03-24 22:02, Chris Osborn wrote:

>> If you do not want to spare so much money, the XU1541 might be something
>> for you instead. Note, however, that it has its limitations, too. For
>> example, it seems to have problems with USB 3.0 ports. Additionally,
>> parallel transfers are not possible, which makes it rather slow.
>> Additionally, you cannot use burst nibbling to preserve your originals.
>
> Another option is to do the reverse and instead of connecting a 1541 floppy to a PC, you can add a NAS to your C64 by using a Raspberry Pi. Lots more storage available than a single floppy and you don’t have to SneakerNet anything back & forth. :-)
>
> https://github.com/FozzTexx/ninepin

Nice project. For practical purposes some kind of SD2IEC/uIEC would IMHO 
be more practical though. Jim's uIEC is a fine example while C64SD 
"Princess" seems to be most feature rich one and well made too.

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SD!

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