C64/C128 1541 support

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tteich
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C64/C128 1541 support

Post by tteich »

Bonjour Torlus and Jeff, my french is not very good so I#m posting in the english section. Thanks for all your efforts in this great project.

Do you plan to add support for Commodore C64/C128 computers? (e.g. 1541C emulation)?

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Post by Altomcat »

Hello tteich,

I'm sure, it's for you :arrow: http://jderogee.tripod.com/project1541.htm

Have you heard about this project ?

Arnaud.

tteich
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Post by tteich »

Altomcat wrote:Hello tteich,

I'm sure, it's for you :arrow: http://jderogee.tripod.com/project1541.htm

Have you heard about this project ?

Arnaud.
Hello, no. This is new for me :-) Seems they offer what I'm looking for. Thank you for the link.

Anyway: do you plan to support the 1541 with your project sometime in the future?

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Post by AmiDog »

I'm also interested in 1541 support. Replacing the drive mechanism with something more reliable while still using the 1541 motherboard to get full compatibility would be great. :D

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Post by Torlus »

AmiDog wrote:I'm also interested in 1541 support. Replacing the drive mechanism with something more reliable while still using the 1541 motherboard to get full compatibility would be great. :D
This is indeed the quickest and easiest way to have things working with full compatibility. However, it should be possible to replace the full 1541 unit, but that would be a different project.
Maybe people here could tell if they would rather get a "1541 unit + floppy drive emulation" than a device such as the 1541-III (I guess for some non-standard stuff not handled by the 1541-III).

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Post by gizmomelb »

FPGA 1541 emulation is already available for the C-One project (it's an early alpha, but development is at least happening).

see the news item for 25th September:

http://c64upgra.de/c-one/


my vote:
a replacement floppy drive for the 1541 while using the 1541 circuit board would possibly be easiest - and keep the C64 fans happy as well. (if it is a generic 5.25" floppy emulator you could have a new 'market' with Apple computer fans as well)

though I would personally rather have a full 1541 on a FPGA/PIC/whatever just so it saves space. Then I could build it into my C64 case (or DTV64 if it is small enough!).

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Post by smoergler »

Yes 1541 I/II or other Commodore drives besides Amiga would be cool.

http://www.das-labor.org/wiki/Die_1541_im_FPGA
sorry in german only.

Looking forward to this but some Hardware that supports more Computers would be much nicer.

regards

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