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Skylab
Registered: Dec 2005
Posts: 183 |
Star Commander vs. CBM4WIN
Anyone information about which one's getting better results??? Which one's transferring faster???
Thx!
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The Ignorance
Registered: Apr 2006
Posts: 85 |
Waiting for Graham to introduce Warpcopy... :) |
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j0x
Registered: Mar 2004
Posts: 215 |
I believe CBM4WIN uses Star Commander's (warp) transfer routines, so the performance should be similar. The former should work better under Windows.
Also check out WarpCopy64 (or Mwc 0.2alpha if you're running Linux, CygWin or other POSIX-compatible systems) which I believe is faster than CBM4WIN/Star Commander, but does require an RR-net ethernet thingy.
YMMV, etc.
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Zeldin
Registered: Apr 2002
Posts: 33 |
SC might be a bit faster but has a far better handling (imho), which should be the main reason to use.
The only problem with SC was, that it didn't run on 32 Bit... as this has changed now it's the best to use Star Commander in combination with CBM4WIN.
With the new StarCommander Beta it's possible to implement CBM4WIN into Starcommander, so you can use SC now under W2k or WXP. I just tested it... works fine and I am really happy... no more DOS partitions to boot :-)
cu,
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Skylab
Registered: Dec 2005
Posts: 183 |
I see... Thanks for the answers..
Greetz!
Skylab |
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j0x
Registered: Mar 2004
Posts: 215 |
A few numbers from http://www.oxyron.de/html/wc64.html and http://sta.c64.org/scdoc.html#section6 :
Reading a full disk side from a 1541:
Star Commander (warp mode): 76 seconds
Star Commander (Hybrid warp mode): 50 seconds
Star Commander (Parallel warp mode): 23 seconds
Warpcopy64: 22 seconds
I assume Hybrid warp mode uses the XH parallel cable and that the parallel warp mode uses the XP parallel cable.
So if you have soldered a parallel cable to your 1541's VIA-1, and you have the right kind of parallel port (so you can use an XP cable instead of an XH cable), Star Commander can be just about as fast as Warpcopy.
Warpcopy, on the other hand, does not need a parallel cable or a special parallel port, but it *does* need an RR-net.
Since Mwc is just a rip-off of WC, the numbers and requirements also apply for that. :)
If you just have a serial cable, Star Commander takes 76 seconds to transfer a disk side in the fastest mode, more than three times slower than WC.
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itch
Registered: Aug 2006
Posts: 24 |
I have tested both dos and windows versions ( and cables ), what i found out was that with dos version ( star commander ) , the disk writing is verified but not at the windows version. So using old disks is better in dos because you will find out if the disk is faulty. |
