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yago
Registered: May 2002
Posts: 333 |
Interleaved File Copy
Hello Disk Wizards,
i am currently testing some irqloaders, and want to see how fast they can get with different interleaves.
The only tool I found is intcopy/taboo, but it is c64-native and seems to have problems with already allocated Blocks.
Any Ideas which Tools (preferable cross-development) I could use to write to a Disk while specifying the interleave ?
TIA,
Zed Yago
PS: All cross-development tools I checked write with interleave 1!!!
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cadaver
Registered: Feb 2002
Posts: 1160 |
Hi, check out prg2d64 and makedisk from my tool collection. prg2d64 always writes with a fixed interleave but it can be recompiled. makedisk has interleave as a command line option.
http://covertbitops.c64.org/tools/c64tools.zip
No responsibility is taken for possible wrong BAM-allocations etc. :) |
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Cybernator
Registered: Jun 2002
Posts: 154 |
Speaking of xdev tools, I think Star Commander has configurable sector-interleave. |
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cadaver
Registered: Feb 2002
Posts: 1160 |
But AFAIK because there's no batch processing or commandline operation (or they at least aren't documented), building images with SC at each interleave will be a royal pain :) Same for 64COPY. I wouldn't have made my own utilities if I knew a sane alternative :) |
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Cybernator
Registered: Jun 2002
Posts: 154 |
In that case, prg2d64 would be even greater pain, Agent C. :) Anyway, Makedisk should do the job. |
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cadaver
Registered: Feb 2002
Posts: 1160 |
Yes, but it is easy to modify & recompile for selectable interleave, unlike some filecopy utilities with no source.. In fact I'm doing this myself now & uploading updated tools. |
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Steppe
Registered: Jan 2002
Posts: 1510 |
Wait, didn't Joe add a batch processing feature to SC in one of the latest beta? I don't know if the interleave can be controlled from the commandline, but at least some sort of batch-processing is there, I'm sure. |
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cadaver
Registered: Feb 2002
Posts: 1160 |
Ah, there actually is a function to set a variable (which can control interleave) so I was wrong. Anyway, cool to see that SC keeps progressing..
Still, I'd wish c1541 from VICE would get ability to configure interleave. It's probably most versatile command line oriented disk image manipulator. |
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raven
Account closed
Registered: Jan 2002
Posts: 137 |
If you need to change the interleave on the C64 (or emu)
before save, do the following:
open 1,8,15:print#1,"m-w"chr$(105)chr$(0)chr$(1)chr$(interleave):close1
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yago
Registered: May 2002
Posts: 333 |
Thanks for the various infos!
As I am currently in leisure Time without internet, i thought about the problem a little bit, and coded myself the desired tools :-)
If anybody is interested in copy2d64, or its analysis companions readts, writets and printbam, leave me a PM.
copy2d64 has commandline-options for interleave, rawmode(without loadaddress nor chaining), direction, use track18 and so on. It has even an option for specifying how long it takes to move the head one track further!
Seems to work, and dreamload and plushdos got a huge speed-improvement compared to interleave=1.
Happy new year 2003!
Zed Yago/K2
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HCL
Registered: Feb 2003
Posts: 728 |
Heh.. Using the normal interleave 8 will also double the speed comparing to using 1 :). |
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