Re: cbmlink with 3032/3040 pair

From: Francesco Messineo <francesco.messineo_at_gmail.com>
Date: Tue, 6 Mar 2018 21:17:53 +0100
Message-ID: <CAESs-_w7xedVdWmCEGbdER9Kn+xtNt0df51ZxJx5e=PtB827Rg@mail.gmail.com>
On Tue, Mar 6, 2018 at 9:13 PM, Mia Magnusson <mia@plea.se> wrote:
> Den Mon, 5 Mar 2018 22:33:27 +0100 skrev Francesco Messineo
> <francesco.messineo@gmail.com>:
>> On Mon, Mar 5, 2018 at 10:28 PM, Steve Gray <sjgray@rogers.com> wrote:
>> > Does the directory change when you validate the disk? If so it
>> > could just mean that the disk contents are still in the buffer. If
>> > you initialize rather than validate what does it do?
>>
>> No directory doesn't change, it looks right from the start after the
>> image is completed.
>> I can also remove the disk and validate it the next day, then it shows
>> the correct free blocks.
>> As I said, it seems the sector 18,0 is never written to the disk.
>
> Are there any good disk editors available for PET? I know that there
> were some available even back in mid 80's for C64+1541, but don't know
> about the PET.
>

I don't know, but sometimes in 1986 I wrote my own disk editor for the
C64, so I guess I could do it on a PET too :)


>
>> a PC64 cable is far too simple than any other method. It's just
>> slow...
>
> PC64 seems to be a semi usable thing, might make one :)

I'm very happy with it. I can use the same cable on C64, VIC-20 and the PETs.
Each of them just needs its own version of the "server" program, but
the linux client is always the same.

Frank

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