Floppy drive parallel cable?

[groepaz]

... does it exist? Or well rather, is there any VIC20 software supporting it? (i guess a speeddos-like cable could be used with VIC20)

[brain]

If the SW just needs the 8 bits for parallel, the regular RapiDOS/SpeedDOS cable should work, but I know of no SW that uses it. Hopefully someone else does.

Jim

[groepaz]

Context: i am currently looking through the userport stuff in VICE, fixing things as i stumble about it, and removing stuff that shouldn't exist (because it can not work). As for VIC20 i noticed that parallel cable is kindof half implemented in the UI (but not in the emulator), so i am wondering if the UI should be fixed, or the emulator

[vicist]

Would this be the same parallel cable that connected to a centronics printer?

[groepaz]

No - the parallel drive cable goes from the Userport (Typically 8 port bits plus one or two handshake lines) to one of the VIAs in the drive

[r.cade]

While it is possible to connect it, I am not aware of any software on the VIC-20 that would utilize it.