Re: Did Commodore cheat with the quad density floppies?

From: Gerrit Heitsch <gerrit_at_laosinh.s.bawue.de>
Date: Thu, 10 Jan 2019 20:24:21 +0100
Message-ID: <468f34c6-cf19-43ca-7751-7aaf90a4ed2e@laosinh.s.bawue.de>
On 1/10/19 8:11 PM, Francesco Messineo wrote:
> On Thu, Jan 10, 2019 at 7:54 PM Jim Brain <brain@jbrain.com> wrote:
>>
>> On 1/10/2019 12:40 PM, Mia Magnusson wrote:
>>
>> Den Wed, 9 Jan 2019 12:52:46 +0100 skrev Francesco Messineo
>> <francesco.messineo@gmail.com>:
>>
>> see how they did the "burst mode" between 1571 and C128. On the 1571
>> there's an additional 6526 with only two pins used, they didn't even
>> bother to substitute one of the 6522.
>>
>> That was surely done to make the 1570/1571 as compatible to a 1541 as
>> possible, to make for example copy protection work better.
>>
>>
>>
>> As I recall, tho, they used all of the previously free 6522 IO pins, as the parallel cable on a 1571 has to be put on the 6526...
> 
> they used 6 of the 8 previously free PA pins.

But with burst mode possible between 1571 and C128, what would you want 
to use a parallel cable for?

One of my 1571 came with a 8521R0 in the CIA socket. :)

  Gerrit
Received on 2019-01-10 21:00:57

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