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A failing 1541
After sitting in cold/hot storage for the better part of four years, I finally got around to getting out my original 1541 floppy disk drive and giving it a test drive. Right from the get-go, however, the drive didn't sound very good, nor did it appear to work properly. Oh boy. Read more...
1541 DOS Wedge Command Reference
For those of us who still enjoy working with original Commodore hardware, here is a list of commands for the DOS Wedge utility, which originally came bundled with the 1541 floppy drive. Read more...
Accessing V-1541 and CometChat in VICE for Mac OSX
While the setup for the PC version of WinVICE is fairly straightforward and simple, the Mac and Linux versions have their features relocated into different places, and many of them remain undocumented. Read more...
Direct Drive-to-Drive Copy <part 1>
Commodore's serial bus protocol (a.k.a. IEC bus) seems to be designed in such a way that you could easily tell one drive to send data directly to another, taking the C64 out of the picture. Here I explore that idea. Read more...
Success! Convert a D64 to a Floppy
My first attempt to copy a D64 disk image from CommodoreServer.com to a floppy was a success! Read more...
What is V-1541?
V-1541 is a virtual 1541 disk drive that you can use from your Commodore 64 computer. This article describes it in detail. Read more...
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