Am Mittwoch, 25. März 2020, 15:44:18 CET schrieb Anders Carlsson: > silverdr_at_wfmh.org.pl wrote: > > "It was also possible, without requiring a VIC-switch, to connect two > > Commodore 64s to one 1541 floppy disk drive ..." > > > > Has anyone tested that? Is that a fully deterministic/reliable behaviour? > > As far as I know, you need to release the CLK (or is it ATN?) line after > using the drive in order to not lock up the chain: > > C64: POKE 56576,PEEK(56576) AND 239 > Plus/4: POKE 1,PEEK(1) OR 1 > VIC-20: POKE 37137,PEEK(37137) OR 3 > > I used to have my Amiga 500 with a parallel cable connected to 1541-II > and then either a C64 or VIC-20 also connected. By issuing a such POKE > from the CBM side, I was able to store files on the disk and then load > it on the target computer. > > A bit clumsy and failure prone if you forget the POKE so you end up in a > deadlock but for shorter periods of operation it seemed to work. works fine indeed :) was a popular FAQ for starcommander as well :) -- http://hitmen.eu http://ar.pokefinder.org http://vice-emu.sourceforge.net http://magicdisk.untergrund.net Ich ahne, wovon ich spreche, meine Damen und Herren. <Angela Merkel, CDU>Received on 2020-05-30 01:20:48
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