pilgrim@daimi.aau.dk (Jakob G}rdsted) (05/23/91)
I would like to hear about setting harddisks up
with a c64. Is it possible, has anybody done it,
can it be done "nicely" ( things like - this 16
character limit on file names, is that in the
c64 or in the 1541, it is implemented? So could
the harddisk thing be kept outside the computer,
so the necessary directory thing wouln't bother
the c64)
I haven't read this newsgroup before(I did
not know it existed!), so sorry if this is
a stupid question.
As I understand it, the way disks works with the
c64 is very nice, because all the action is
handled by the 1541 and its 6510 and its 2k ram
and its 8k rom. So all the "r:xxx", "n:xxx"
"s:xxx" could be similar, and directories just
added on top of it.
I know a lot of things would screw up -
things that adressed the disk as a physical device,
and assumed 36(?) sectors etc. But a lot of stuff
would act nicely, if one just changed directory
to where it lived, and then started it.
I know, that the 1541(when looked at from the software
point)is "quite" complicated, and stuff of similar
complexity(or worse) would be needed to do this,
so -
Has any company made anything like this?
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From the notorious
Jakob Gaardsted, Computer Science Department
Bed og arbejd ! University of Aarhus, Jylland (!)
(Pray and work!) AMIGA! pilgrim@daimi.aau.dk | I'd rather play Moria.desimone@cse.uta.edu (David DeSimone) (05/23/91)
In article <1991May22.180032.10001@daimi.aau.dk> pilgrim@daimi.aau.dk (Jakob G}rdsted) writes: >I would like to hear about setting harddisks up >with a c64. Is it possible, has anybody done it, >can it be done "nicely" ( things like - this 16 >character limit on file names, is that in the >c64 or in the 1541, it is implemented? A company called Creative Micro Designs has implimented a successful hard disk for the C64 or C128. It uses a SCSI adapter internally, and a DOS which can emulate a 1541/71/81, translate access to the disk into access to the hard disk. So the 64 often thinks it is talking to a floppy, although you can set up partitions that are larger than floppy-sized if you wish. -- David DeSimone, aka "Fuzzy Fox" on some networks. /!/! INET: an207@cleveland.freenet.edu / .. Q-Link: Fuzzy Fox / --* Quote: "Foxes are people too! And vice versa." / ---