Re: C64 MMU POC

From: silverdr_at_wfmh.org.pl
Date: Thu, 11 Jul 2019 19:40:26 +0200
Message-Id: <2A261C54-699D-4B49-BAE9-77A7ECB38032_at_wfmh.org.pl>
> On 2019-07-11, at 18:58, Mia Magnusson <mia_at_plea.se> wrote:
> 
>> They should be easy enough to find. For example I have a number of
>> 1541 with dead R/W heads. Since that's fatal for use as a disk drive
>> they are now only good for parts. One of them even has a 6502C as
>> CPU, that one should be good for 4 MHz.
> 
> Side track: Are there generally more working 1541 motherboards than
> working drive mechanisms around?
> 
> If so, it seems like a good idea to build an interface that is like the
> reverse of the electronics on a Shugart compatible disk drive. By doing
> that, it would be possible to use standard "pc" disk drives on a 1541,
> or even use a gotek or similar.

I once did a spider style interfacing of a 3.5" into the 1541 by decoding its stepper signals and feeding the outcome into step/dir of the small drive. These days it's probably better to build an interface to a flash-card though.

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