Subj : Re: Advice on the best drive emulator? To : All From : Kenzo Date : Sun May 08 2022 10:28 am On Saturday, May 7, 2022 at 10:28:11 PM UTC-7, Paul Förster wrote: > Hi Kenzo, > On 08. May, 2022 at 05:57:00 CEST, "Kenzo" wrote: > > The 1571 won't power up but using the same power supply the 1541 II works > > fine. And the second 1541 also works fine. So I have two drives working, but > > not the 1571 yet. > I'm not sure that you can use a 1541-II power supply with a 1571. I'd do some > research before trying that because a bad power supply can not only not power > up the attached device correctly but it can kill it. So I'd be careful when > trying a Commodore power supply with a different device than what it was built > for. You should basically always assume that Commodore power supplies are NOT > interchangeable between devices. > > And I had 4 computers in storage, a 64 and three original type128s. The 64 > > powers up, but composite connected monitor is blank. I have to do some > > research for that. Maybe the 64 does not output composite video? > The C64 has a composite signal. It's pin 4 of the connector. > > See: http://www.hardwarebook.info/C128/C64C_Video > > But your VIC chip may be fried (or the monitor of course). Or it may suffer > from a bad connection. It's hard to say without detailed info. I suggest > taking the VIC chip out and clean the contacts, then put it back in. This can > be easily done if the chip sits in a socket. If it's soldered in then you may > have some soldering to do. But instead of soldering it back in I would put in > a socket. > > The three 128s all work fine. Next I will try the two 1764 ram expansion > > modules. The one I have that was boxed comes with a commodore higher powered > > power supply. I will check the output voltages before powering up with it. > I can't comment on the 1764. I never had one of those. > > So now that I can read disks, I guess the next step is to clean and lube the > > drives, and then figure out a way to convert the physical floppies to .d64 > > files, since I don't expect the drives to work forever. > Most things are on the web already in d64 format. You'd have to search hard > for some things, though. But if you want to do the conversion yourself, then > there are several options, of which I can recomment two: > > 1) if you want to do it on the C64/C128, then use method 4 of: > > https://diginoodles.com/writing/media-production/transferring-commodore-64-disks-to-modern-formats > > 2) get a Star Commander cable and connect the drive to a PC running DOS. Then > you can use the Star Commander: > https://sta.c64.org/sc.html > > Though the second option is very comfortable and reminiscent of the well known > Norton Commander, it requires an old PC running DOS and having a parallel > port. You'd also need to aquire one of the X1541 flavor of cables. It's all > documented on the Star Commander homepage. > > Hope this helps. > > Cheers > Paul Zoomfloppy? Looks great for converting physical floppies to D64 copies in windows and reverse? --- SoupGate-Win32 v1.05 * Origin: Agency HUB, Dunedin - New Zealand | Fido<>Usenet Gateway (3:770/3) .