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- Sun Apr 28, 2013 2:40 am
- Forum: General Topics
- Topic: LURKERS! Zero posters speak now or be deleted
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- Sun Feb 15, 2009 1:42 pm
- Forum: Hardware and Tech
- Topic: VIC 1540
- Replies: 29
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From the 1541 user manual: Using With a VIC 20 or Commodore 64 The 1541 Disk Drive can work with either the VIC 20 or Commodore 64 computers. However, each computer has different requirements for speed of incoming data. Therefore, there is a software seitch for selecting which computer's speed to us...
- Sun Feb 15, 2009 1:26 pm
- Forum: Hardware and Tech
- Topic: VIC 1540
- Replies: 29
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As far as I know the unaltered 1540 is too fast for the c64. Because of an error in the VIA 6522 (in the 1540 and 1540) the shift register could not be used anymore and they had the go back to bit-banging (bit by bit reading). This is very power consuming for the 6500 microprosessor in the computer ...
- Sun Feb 15, 2009 11:47 am
- Forum: Hardware and Tech
- Topic: VIC 1540
- Replies: 29
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- Sun Feb 15, 2009 2:50 am
- Forum: Hardware and Tech
- Topic: VIC 1540
- Replies: 29
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Sorry that I didn't introduce myself. But I live in Holland and I am 35 years old. I bought this drive a few months ago on Marktlaats. It was part of a collection of 2xc64, one 1541 II and this 1540 drive. Total costs 15 Euro:) Strangely the drive didn't work on a c64 and at first I thought that it ...
- Sat Feb 14, 2009 2:54 pm
- Forum: Hardware and Tech
- Topic: VIC 1540
- Replies: 29
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