cyclops@pnet51.cts.com (Zach Forsyth) (01/10/89)
I would like someone's opinion on the following subjects:
1. Is a 20MB Lt. Kernal hard drive worth it?? I mean, is it fast,
easy to use, ect.
2. I am thinking on upgrading to a 128 or 128D. Does anyone know if
the thousands of bugs found in the 1571 have been fixed on the
newer drives?
Thanx
o) The Cyclops
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INET: cyclops@pnet51.cts.comizot@f171.n221.z1.FIDONET.ORG (Geoffrey Welsh) (01/11/89)
> From: cyclops@pnet51.cts.com (Zach Forsyth) > Message-ID: <462@orbit.UUCP> > 1. Is a 20MB Lt. Kernal hard drive worth it?? I mean, is it fast, > easy to use, ect. Early Lt. Kernal drives for the C64 had various compatibility problems, but the ones sold by Xetec for the C64 are fine. They are fast - you can't quite run a hires movie, but slideshows are practical as one can now load the 8K bitmap plus 1K colour map in a second or two. Ironically, this only applies to data one can load en masse (like programs and ml-driven sequential file handlers; relative file handling, especially in BASIC, is actually slower on the Lt. Kernal than on a parallel IEEE-488 drive like an SFD-1001). > 2. I am thinking on upgrading to a 128 or 128D. Does anyone know > if the thousands of bugs found in the 1571 have been fixed on > the newer drives? I upgraded my 1571 as soon as the new ROMS came out, and had a 128d in last summer and couldn't find anything to complain about in the drives. Then again, I only ever ran into a couple of problems with the old ROMs (slow to recognize single-sided disks, updated BAM after every block write on second side, etc.) ============================================================================== Internet: Geoffrey.Welsh@f171.n221.z1.fidonet.org | 66 Mooregate Crescent Usenet: watmath!isishq!izot | Suite 602 FidoNet: Geoffrey Welsh @ 1:221/171 | Kitchener, Ontario PunterNet: 7/Geoffrey Welsh | N2M 5E6 CANADA BBS: (519) 742-8939 24h 7d 300/1200/2400bps | (519) 741-9553 ============================================================================== | "I don't need a disclaimer. No one pays any attention to what I say." | ============================================================================== -- Geoffrey Welsh - via FidoNet node 1:221/162 UUCP: ...!watmath!isishq!171!izot Internet: izot@f171.n221.z1.FIDONET.ORG