Re: PC as 1541

Or you could probably find an old laptop with a defective screen and/or 
keyboard for much less or free...

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "matt" <galaga@slingshot.co.nz>
To: <cbm-hackers@musoftware.de>
Sent: Friday, April 29, 2011 8:43 PM
Subject: Re: PC as 1541


> yes at that price you have a http://www.1541ultimate.net/content/index.php
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> ----- Original Message ----- 
> From: "Daniel O'Shea" <dan@ozramp.net.au>
> To: <cbm-hackers@musoftware.de>
> Sent: Saturday, April 30, 2011 11:42 AM
> Subject: Re: PC as 1541
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> On 29/04/2011, at 6:32 AM, Gábor Lénárt wrote:
>> More modern than DOS :) The original topic was to run my PC also as a
>> 'virtual 1541' for CBM machine, and it was mentioned that DOS is needed 
>> then
>> on the PC to have exclusive control because of timing issues. What I mean
>> that I would not use DOS as the (cross-) development machine, and just
>> having a DOS box too is a bit overkill again. I guess you get my 
>> sentences
>> in the wrong way: I haven't compared Windows/Linux (what you thought 
>> maybe)
>> with "more modern" but DOS with Linux. Anyway I never ever used Windows
>> (really!) but here it was not the question at all.
>
> I agree that a DOS box would be overkill but it got me thinking - it 
> wouldn't have to be big, and after a few seconds of googling I found a 
> single-board-computer with DOS and a parallel port:
>
> http://www.jkmicro.com/products/flashtcp.html
>
> ...and it could be useful for a lot more than just pretending to be a 
> 1541, also I have to say that I find all this talk about the death of the 
> vanishing parallel port to be more than just a little bit ironic - 
> Commodore computers are vanishing even more quickly but it's not as if 
> we're going to let that stop us!
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