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Celtic
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Registered: Jan 2002
Posts: 807 |
How to use my cable on XP.
Hey Guys,
Even though i am truly no longer active on this computer i am commited to trasnfering my 900+ disks to the pc, coz i believe i have a lot of stuff that is not on the net.
But while i wanted to do that i noticed that my cable (X1541) that worked fine 3 years back is not working anymore with starcommander. So i was wondering is this due to windows XP, and if yes, are there any ways around this? How can this be fixed?
Thanks for the help folkx
Greets,
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Shake
Posts: 133 |
there is this patch for xp, i believe on the site from starcommander. Doesn't work always...
A solution would be booting to a dos partition and start starcommander. Or warpcopy for RR-Net, if you have 900+ disks i'd consider investing a 100 euro for this (retroreplay+rrnet) saves lot of time in creating the d64's
some tools that may be handy for you were recently discussed:
http://noname.c64.org/csdb/forums/?roomid=9&topicid=17634#17667
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Graham
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Registered: Dec 2002
Posts: 990 |
You don't want to transfer 900+ disk with a X1541 cable. That would take ages. |
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Intensity
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Registered: May 2002
Posts: 337 |
Download and create a Windows 98 bootdisc from www.bootdisk.com and run Starcommander in dos.
I have done it myself and it works perfectly. |
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Perff
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Posts: 1679 |
A bit side-topic:
Since the beginning of times (1994) I have used a homemade c64<->amiga/pc paracable, with homemade programs to transfer data. Because of this I have NO clue how fast fx. a X1541 cable is. According to Graham it sounds that it is not very fast, but what is then?
Just curious about some transfer rates, secs. to transfer a d64, using various cables/hardware (RR-net).
Then I would know if I should stick to my cable, or go get something faster. :) |
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SIDWAVE
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Registered: Apr 2002
Posts: 2238 |
The program "CBM4Win" works under XP, with all cables incl. and above XM.
Then you can transfer disks while you chat on IRC..
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Devia
Registered: Oct 2004
Posts: 401 |
If you're a bit of a handyman follow this: http://sta.c64.org/xm1541c2.html to convert your X1541 to XM1541 which will work with XP. (If it's an XE1541 you have, it's waaay simpler! Just swap pins 5 & 6 on the DIN connector)
This won't make StarCommander work properly though, but as rambones suggests, CBM4Win will!
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Steppe
Registered: Jan 2002
Posts: 1510 |
It won't make Star Commander work anymore? You must have got something wrong, Devia, Star Commander works just as fine with the modified XE cable (now an XM cable) as before. Just change the cable configuration in the SC settings pages. |
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Devia
Registered: Oct 2004
Posts: 401 |
Really? ..I have never been successful in getting SC to run under XP no matter which cable/machine/whatever I used.
It simply crashes too frequently, although I fail to see the reason why. Maybe it's got to do with some piece of SW, I got on all machines I try it on, that busts up the Windows-On-Windows environment or something.
Oh well.. I always hated Pascal anyways so maybe it's mutual ;-P
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Steppe
Registered: Jan 2002
Posts: 1510 |
@Perff:
Some transferrates from the top of my head:
Warpcopy/RR-Net:
Read: ~24 seconds
Write: ~35 seconds
XE cable:
Star Commander:
Read: ~80 seconds
Write: ~80 seconds
cmb4win:
Read: ~120 seconds
Write: ~200 seconds
XEP cable (needs parallel speeder in floppy like Dolphin/Speeddos):
Star Commander and cbm4win quite similiar:
Read: ~30 seconds
Write: ~40 seconds
Also check these websites for speed comparison tables:
http://trikaliotis.net/cbm4win.shtml
http://sta.c64.org/scdoc.html#section6
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Steppe
Registered: Jan 2002
Posts: 1510 |
@Devia: Ah, you were referring to the fact that SC won't work under XP anymore. That's right for 95% of all cases. There are some lucky bunnies who managed to get it to work, though.
I got it to work myself, but it's really unstable. It's a "hold your breath and don't move the mouse" transfer under XP. Once the SC window loses focus it's bound to crash. ;-) |
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Laxity
Registered: Aug 2005
Posts: 459 |
I've had the same problems with SC and XP for ages!. If CMB4WIN works with my 1541-pc cable (the type of which I don't know), I'm all go for transfering disks without any hastle.. Great! |
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Perff
Administrator
Posts: 1679 |
Thanks for the data Steppe.
It looks like I will stay put with my own homemade cable and routines.
Just made a test. It takes aprox. 45-50 secs to transfer a d64 either way. (I think I can get it down to 40 if I tune it a bit up :) ), and it works fine in XP.
Ok, the program have crashed a few times on initialisation, but a quick reset and reload the reciever and we try again.
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