Re: 8250 and C64 disks

From: Claus Just Rasmussen (Claus_at_just-rasmussen.dk)
Date: 2006-03-29 08:32:18

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 Hi Nicolas,

  It would be really nice if you'd help and modify the code. I haven't
  got any problem to look into it myself - except that I need to
  install a compiler, and I wouldn't know what to change in the
  6502-code to make it work on 4040.

  Best regards,
  Claus

  Nicolas Welte wrote:

      --- Ursprüngliche Nachricht ---
      Von: Claus Just Rasmussen       <Claus@just-rasmussen.dk>      An:       cbm-hackers@ling.gu.se      Betreff: Re: 8250 and C64 disks
      Datum: Tue, 28 Mar 2006 21:35:13 +0200
      
      A combination - some 4040 disks and also imgrd, I'm afraid. The 4040 
      disks explains itself, the imgrd problem was/is that if I specify a 
      filename in actual path, then it'll be overwritten by something <2KB.
              

    Strange. I never had this problem here. But that's for using a program on
    only a single machine. You never know what happens on the next one! But I'll
    have another look into the source if there is something obvious.
     
            

      I managed to get my hands on a 4040 so now I've got the HW in place to 
      read the disks. Really nice.
      
      Next question: Do a 4040-version of imgrd exist? If not - will I need to 
      change more than the #sectors,tracks? (bitclock?)
              

    Of course the map of sectors per track and number of total tracks has to be
    fixed. Then some minor changes for the filename extension (d64), and the
    autodetection of doublesided disks has to be skipped. I use some 6502 code
    that gets downloaded into the drive, I have to check if this is usable on
    the 4040.
    
    If you don't feel like hacking into the source code, I can have a look and
    add an option -40 to support the 4040 drive and disk layout. (I'm sure a
    2031 drive can't be supported so easily, because my 6502 drive code had to
    be changed to the completely different memory layout of the drive).
    
    Nicolas
    
    
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