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When two worlds met (and love prevailed on rivalry)

Posted on March 18, 2018 by

The history of computing is peppered with rivalry among users of different gaming machines. Perhaps the competition between Commodore 64 and Spectrum 48k users is one of the best known examples of such rivalry, and one some of us experienced … Continue reading →

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IECHost on Raspberry Pi and party mode!

Posted on March 17, 2018 by

As there seems to be some momentum around the development of my IECHost project, I thought to spend some more time on it and build my IECHost client for Raspberry Pi 3 Model B. The overall setup is quite simple: a Raspberry … Continue reading →

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WarpCopy64 client: stream normalisation and GCR decoding integrated

Posted on March 11, 2018 by

As I integrated all the necessary components to decode the WarpCopy64 packet holding sector data, here’s the output from a further test run of my client with a different disk. The test still involves just fetching t/s 18/1 from drive … Continue reading →

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WarpCopy64 client: further development

Posted on March 11, 2018 by

This afternoon I refactored a few things in my client implementation and decided to actually try some data transfer from WarpCopy64’s server running on a Commodore 64. Perhaps one of the simplest things to do when trying to work with … Continue reading →

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WarpCopy64 Protocol

Posted on March 11, 2018 by

While waiting for contact to be made with Graham, I thought I’d just list some of my findings about the commands/services made available by the WarpCopy64 protocol, in case these will be useful to somebody else one day. WarpCopy64 Services: … Continue reading →

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WarpCopy64 client development started

Posted on March 10, 2018 by

Although I don’t know what the long term outcome of this will be, I started putting together the functionality required to talk to RR-Net and WarpCopy64’s server. As my IECHost client is based on glib/gio for robustness and cross-platform support, … Continue reading →

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Back and updates

Posted on March 10, 2018 by

I’ve only been back for a couple of days, but I have already managed to give myself more work around the IECHost project! Without making any commitment at this time, I’ve got this idea in my mind that supporting RR-Net … Continue reading →

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