| T.R | Title | User | Personal
Name | Date | Lines |
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| 628.1 | Recently reviewed | 29805::KINDEL | Bill Kindel @ LTN2 | Mon Aug 03 1987 10:05 | 16 |
| I think there was a review in the most recent issue of Ahoy! As I
remember it, Disk-to-Disk (from the same folks who brought you
Dos-to-Dos) does a better job of reading C-64 GCR disks than it does of
formatting/writing them.
That's because the Commodore format changes densities twice as one
moves from track 1 to track 35; Disk-to-Disk has trouble *writing* the
correct densities on tracks 1-17. They were smart enough to do their
writing on tracks 18+ first. The directory blocks are on track 18, so
it appears that transfers of half-full diskettes should be fine.
According to the review, Disk-to-Disk had no trouble *reading* the
whole C-64 GCR diskette. It also offers some number of conversion
modes (PETSCI -> ASCII, BASIC tokens -> ASCII ...)
It looks like Disk-to-Disk is just what you're looking for.
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| 628.2 | Here's where you can get it | AMULET::HALVERSON | GARFIELD | Mon Aug 03 1987 11:25 | 8 |
| Its put out by Central Coast Software and costs 49.95 plus handling
address is:
CCS
268 Bowie Drive
Los Oscos, CA. 93402 (805)-528-4906
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| 628.3 | Abel sells it | AMULET::HALVERSON | GARFIELD | Mon Aug 03 1987 11:29 | 2 |
| I just checked, Able Supply sells it for $31 and change.......
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| 628.4 | ... | LEDS::ACCIARDI | | Mon Aug 03 1987 11:56 | 6 |
| I suspect that the A500's puny 35 watt power supply may not allow
chaining any more than the single external floppy. So if your brother
wants to add Commodore's 5 1/4", he'll need an additional supply.
Unless of course the 5 1/4" has it's own internal supply; I'm not
sure if this is the case...
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| 628.5 | | DICKNS::MACDONALD | WA1OMM Listening 224.28 | Mon Aug 03 1987 14:01 | 1 |
| Yes, it does have its own supply (since its basically a 1571).
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| 628.6 | Reviewed in Amazing Computing | AMULET::HALVERSON | GARFIELD | Thu Aug 06 1987 08:36 | 6 |
| There is a good review of disk-2disk in the current Amazing Computing
magizine Volume 2 Number 8.
steve
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| 628.7 | | DICKNS::MACDONALD | WA1OMM Listening 224.28 | Thu Aug 06 1987 20:31 | 1 |
| Thanks.
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