Re: reading 360K MS-DOS disks in a 1571?

From: André Fachat <afachat_at_gmx.de>
Date: Tue, 24 Jul 2018 21:37:01 +0200
Message-ID: <164cdcb7748.27e0.b4d1f2b66006003a6acd9b1a7b71c3b1@gmx.de>
Am 24. Juli 2018 8:23:24 PM schrieb Terry Raymond <traymond160@gmail.com>:

> GEOS had GeoDos app can also read MS-Dos 😁

As can BDOS http://www.6502.org/users/andre/misc/index.html

But wasn't the question about the C64? IIRC the MFM disk access was only 
working with fast IEC, which the C64 only supports with some additional 
hardware connecting the CIA shift registers from the userport with IEC.

Or did I miss anything?

André

> Terry Raymond
>
>
> On Tue, Jul 24, 2018, 8:12 AM Francesco Messineo <
> francesco.messineo@gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> Thanks, I'll try it :)
>>
>> On Tue, Jul 24, 2018 at 4:03 PM, Bill Degnan <billdegnan@gmail.com> wrote:
>> > There is a program called BlueReader that could read certain kinds of
>> > datafiles.
>> >
>> >
>> http://www.vintagecomputer.net/commodore/64/d64_library/utilities/big_blue_reader_64.d64
>> >
>> > (I did not test this, but iit's worth a try)
>> >
>> > Bill
>> >
>> > On Tue, Jul 24, 2018 at 9:56 AM Francesco Messineo
>> > <francesco.messineo@gmail.com> wrote:
>> >>
>> >> Hi all,
>> >> in theory, a C1571 drive can read MFM 360K ms-dos disks, so does a C64
>> >> (no C128 here) program exist for reading/writing such disks?
>> >> Thanks
>> >>
>> >> Frank
>> >>
>> >
>>
>>
Received on 2018-07-24 22:01:50

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