Re: cbmlink with 3032/3040 pair

Den Mon, 5 Mar 2018 22:33:27 +0100 skrev Francesco Messineo
<francesco.messineo@gmail.com>:
> On Mon, Mar 5, 2018 at 10:28 PM, Steve Gray <sjgray@rogers.com> wrote:
> > Does the directory change when you validate the disk? If so it
> > could just mean that the disk contents are still in the buffer. If
> > you initialize rather than validate what does it do?
> 
> No directory doesn't change, it looks right from the start after the
> image is completed.
> I can also remove the disk and validate it the next day, then it shows
> the correct free blocks.
> As I said, it seems the sector 18,0 is never written to the disk.

Are there any good disk editors available for PET? I know that there
were some available even back in mid 80's for C64+1541, but don't know
about the PET.

> > Just a comment: I think this is the first time I've seen talk of
> > cbmlink. I didn't think anyone actually used it. I used it in
> > 2006/7-ish when I first got back into cbm equipment, but zoomfloppy
> > came out shortly after with IEEE support and I kinda forgot about
> > it. Actually I had added cbmlink support into my CBMxfer
> > (CBM-Transfer) but no one ever emailed me that they actually used
> > it.... oh well.

I googled a bit and this file seems to have some character encoding
problem. I'm sure Marko doesn't spell his name with some strange
non-letter characters :)

http://www.zimmers.net/anonftp/pub/cbm/crossplatform/transfer/C2N232/cbmlink.html

> a PC64 cable is far too simple than any other method. It's just
> slow...

PC64 seems to be a semi usable thing, might make one :)

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