RE: PC as 1541

From: Gene Buckle <geneb_at_deltasoft.com>
Date: Tue, 26 Apr 2011 05:35:07 -0700 (PDT)
Message-ID: <alpine.LFD.2.00.1104260534160.18189@grumble.deltasoft.com>
On Tue, 26 Apr 2011, Baltissen, GJPAA (Ruud) wrote:

> Hallo Anders,
>
>
>> Has anyone tried 1541EMU, which seems like a more advanced
>> alternative to 64HDD?  http://www.kotinet.com/1541/
>
> I have. And it didn't work; I had a PCI-LPT card of another brand and
> for one or another reason the program didn't recognize it. Not wanting
> to buy another card, having 64HDD and my self-written program I never
> had a second look at it.
>
> But I wonder if a modern board where the on-board LPT can handle DMA
> (ECP mode IIRC?) could work? If yes, would I use it? With 1541IDE and
> 1541Ultimate around, most probably not, maybe out of curiousity.
>

Now that the ZoomFloppy is available, I wonder if 64HDD could be 
re-implemented to run under Windows or MacOS?

g.

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