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Wile Coyote
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Registered: Mar 2004
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PC to 1541
[...is there a lead to conect 1541 to PC via USB 2.0]
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hiho,
For years i made do with an Amiga 1200 soup`ed up to 40MHz complete with 8.Gig HD - it was good for surfing the net and porting d64 images over to 1541 (among other things).
About 8 months ago i thought it was about time to ditch the Amiga and pick up a PC as i figuard PC`s were up to a standard i would be happy with (with out feeling to need to upgrade and upgrade somemore in years to come). So i picked up a Sony Vaio, Pentium 4, 2.53 GHz. It`s got USB 2.0 ports. Dose there exist a lead to conect USB 2.0 to 1541 disk drive? /WEC :)
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Exile
Registered: Dec 2002
Posts: 56 |
Hi,
No there's no usb support, but you can use your parallel port. Check this site.
http://sta.c64.org/
Good luck |
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Wile Coyote
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Cheers for that. My machine dose have what appears to be an old style printer port. Although i do not use it for anything as my printer is conected via USB /WEC :) |
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Steppe
Registered: Jan 2002
Posts: 1510 |
Yeah, they left the parallel port in there upon popular request from the Commodore 64 scene. There's nothing useful for a LPT port anymore these days, apart from driving a XE1541 cable! =) |
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Wile Coyote
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*heh* /WEC :) |
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Radar
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Quote: Yeah, they left the parallel port in there upon popular request from the Commodore 64 scene. There's nothing useful for a LPT port anymore these days, apart from driving a XE1541 cable! =)
Honestly, this xe1541-cable sucks... I dont know why, but this piece of shit simply doesn't want to work... |
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TDJ
Registered: Dec 2001
Posts: 1879 |
Quote: Honestly, this xe1541-cable sucks... I dont know why, but this piece of shit simply doesn't want to work...
Try starting up your system in dos mode.
I've got a dedicated pc for xferring my stuff, but I would prefer it to just work from windows .. alas, it ain't so. |
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WVL
Registered: Mar 2002
Posts: 896 |
I've got a 486 c= pc sitting next to my AMD XP3000+, just to transfer stuff... it's horrible :) I even have a catweasle, but that doesn't produce good disks for me.. ah well.. |
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MacGyver
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I have w2k, but I have a seperate partition with the DOS from Win98.
Btw, the cables are also available from Protovision, see http://www.protovision-online.de/catalog |
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Radar
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Quote: Try starting up your system in dos mode.
I've got a dedicated pc for xferring my stuff, but I would prefer it to just work from windows .. alas, it ain't so.
I was booting the notebook with a win98 start-disk, then running the transfer-prg. Should have the same effect (as Im running windows 2000), but it doesn't... |
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CyberBrain
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I know starcommander works in win9x and it should work on winNT/2000/XP too. ("force async transfer" and use the tweak package SC_WINNT.ZIP)
Since my computer is to slow for XP i've only tried it on 9x, but in the docs he says it works. Which programs are you using? |
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Steppe
Registered: Jan 2002
Posts: 1510 |
Radar, ever tried playing around in the BIOS? Try to alter the parallel port mode to ECP or ECP+EPP.
And just starting up the Star Commander won't make it work right from the beginning. I reckon you configured it before by pressing Strg+F9? PM me if you need assistance, I'd be surprised if SC wouldn't work on your PC. |
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Radar
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Well, I configured the cable, I switched to ECP/EPP for the printerport, I even tried several 1541s (new and old models), but SC always hungs... |
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Steppe
Registered: Jan 2002
Posts: 1510 |
It hangs? Like in "stops reacting to keypresses"?
Have you enabled "Autodetect Port Mode" in the Settings? Try disabling it and see if that makes any difference. |
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CyberBrain
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Did you also select async transfer and use the tweak package? (again: i wouldn't know since i've got win98, but it says in the doc that you have to do this if you use NT/2000/XP) |
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Steppe
Registered: Jan 2002
Posts: 1510 |
He said he uses a Win98 bootdisk, so that's not necessary. Leaving that setting on Auto is the preferred way.
Oh, on another thought, are you using SC 0.82 or the latest 0.83 beta? |
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Wile Coyote
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That`s gone and done it... ;)
I have Windows XP and a P4 - what lead and software works best? /WEC :D |
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Finn
Registered: May 2002
Posts: 15 |
After I had enough of trying to get transferring to work on xp and wanted to stop messing around with DOS disks. I created an extra DOS partition,then installed FREEDOS and put star commander on it.I simply just move the files I want to tranfer to a folder on that partition wich(duh!)can be accessed from with in XP :) or linux :) Now i just boot via LILO´s boot menu directly to DOS if i want to.
Although I think there is a great need for a new generation of transfer methods/software with normal GUI (would probably look like a FTP client GUI star commander mix) ,in linux and windows. This works fine for now :)
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