> On 2019-01-11, at 22:31, Francesco Messineo <francesco.messineo@gmail.com> wrote: > > On Fri, Jan 11, 2019 at 10:15 PM <silverdr@wfmh.org.pl> wrote: >> >> I remember I used Marko's C2N232 some time ago to load'n test things on real hardware - worked fantastic back then: <SHIFT><RUN/STOP>, <C=> done! >> >> Now I have a friend who's got similar need but has no C2N232. What would you recommend to use instead? As this is for testing software on real hardware, it needs to be loaded tens if not hundreds of times.. > > I use cbmlink with a parallel (Yes, I have lots of PCs with parallel > interface) to user port cable (I believe it's called PC48, it's on > cbmlink docs). It works for C64, VIC-20 and PETs (at least basic 2, no > 1.0 or 1.1) with the same cable. I use mainly to copy programs to real > floppies or write .d64 images to a real floppy, but it can just > transfer a program to memory and it's very fast (unless of course you > do write on disk, in that case, it's very slow). > I think it's abandonware by now, but it works enough well for me. If > your friend isn't willing to spend some time making cables and trying > programs, he better gets an SD-based IEC disk, like sdiec or pi-1541. He needs to run it off current machine (no parport) and he can of course get SDIEC or something similar but the problem is with transferring hundreds of times removing card, plugging in, saving, removing, pluggin in, loading, removi.... Ideally it should work similar to what I had: lO on the 64, and $ make tr (for test real) on the laptop, which builds the program and starts transfer while the cable is connected all the time. -- SD! - https://e4aws.silverdr.com/Received on 2019-01-12 00:00:03
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