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You might also want to have a look at Ville Muikkula's real-time 1541
emulator (which requires a fast PC) and at prlink, my
userport-to-printerport solution that I'm porting to
cassetteport-serialport, so that it'll work on all 8-bit Commodore models
and non-PC or non-Amiga computers on the other end.
> Date: Tue, 27 Nov 2001 14:04:15 -0600
> X-Sybari-Space: 00000000 00000000 00000000
> From: "Robert Eaglestone" <eaglesto@nortelnetworks.com>
>
> Gentlemen:
>
>
> Thanks for your prompt replies. Your e-mails have helped me
> understand the problem in general, as well as current solutions
> that will probably suffice. I see three main points from the replies,
> which I have summarized below:
>
>
> (1) Commodore IEC to USB is possible, and has been thought of.
> It may well require a USB microcontroller, such as those manufactured
> by Cypress Semiconductors. Their prices are becoming reasonable
> ($7 is quite reasonable to me).
>
> http://www.cypress.com/usb/
>
>
> (2) There are some kits that interface SCSI or IDE hard drives to the
> C64. Even more interesting: "Ruud Baltissen has also started a project
> for converting an 1541 disk drive into an IDE controller." That would
> be very cool indeed.
>
> http://home.hccnet.nl/g.baltissen/ide.htm
> http://home.hccnet.nl/g.baltissen/hardware.htm
>
> (3) Another possibility is to use a PC (maybe even an old one) as
> a fileserver for the C64. This is cool, since I have an old 486 that
> I've wanted to bring into service (Linux, but DOS would be ok I guess).
>
> http://www.64hdd.com/c64-proj.html#64hdd
>
>
> I'd like to hear of any follow-ups to this thread. Where can I
> subscribe to this list, and how much traffic does it carry?
>
> Thanks again,
>
> Robert Eaglestone
> C64 owner for 18 years...
>
>
>
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