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Tag Archives: IECHost
Whole track transfer with a 1571 floppy disk drive
After a few busy days at work and a few days out of action due to back and neck pain, I decided to arrange a setup for running Nibtools and d2d64. The first thing I had to do was to … Continue reading
Posted in Retrocomputing, Reverse Engineering, Technical
Tagged 1571, Commodore 128, Disk drives, dumping, IEC, IECHost, preservation
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Support for another burst command added in IECHost
This morning I added support for reading the burst INTERLEAVE value out of a 1571 drive and expanded support of the burst READ command to read multiple sectors. The former returns the soft interleave value used by the 1571 to … Continue reading
Posted in Retrocomputing, Reverse Engineering, Technical
Tagged 1571, Commodore 128, Disk drives, dumping, IEC, IECHost, preservation
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Two more burst commands implemented in IECHost
Today I was reading a bit about the Burst Command Instruction Set (BCIS) as documented in Commodore’s official user’s guide for 1570/1571 drives. I was intrigued by the lack of details within the documentation so I implemented two more burst … Continue reading
Posted in Retrocomputing, Reverse Engineering, Technical
Tagged 1571, Commodore 128, Disk drives, dumping, IEC, IECHost, preservation
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IECHost hardware mod to support the fast serial protocol and burst commands
This morning I did a quick modification to the IECHost PCB that enables it to use the fast serial protocol and burst commands with 1571 and 1581 drives. It just needs a bit of reflowing and cleaning, and then it … Continue reading
Posted in Retrocomputing, Technical
Tagged 1571, Burst mode, Commodore 64, fast serial, IECHost, preservation
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Burst fastload command added to IECHost!
This morning I did some research on the so called “burst mode” supported by the 1571 and 1581 drives. After a post-lunch walk, in the early afternoon I started coding the implementation of the burst fastload command, i.e. “U0″CHR$(31)”<FILENAME>”. By … Continue reading
Posted in Retrocomputing, Reverse Engineering, Technical
Tagged 1571, Burst mode, Commodore 64, fast serial, IEC, IECHost, preservation
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Further researching for the 1571 drive
As I recently acquired a 1571 drive to expand the capabilities of my IECHost project, I thought I might not just stop at adding support for “fast serial” mode. In fact I am going to do some research on these … Continue reading
Support for the “fast serial” protocol added to IECHost!
This morning I finished the implementation of the “fast serial” protocol in the IECHost firmware, that’s the one used by the C128 to communicate with 1571 and 1581 drives, using CIA’s shift register. The result is quite pleasing so far: … Continue reading
Posted in Retrocomputing, Reverse Engineering, Technical
Tagged Commodore 64, disks, dumping, IEC, IECHost, preservation, software
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Analyzing the “fast serial” bus protocol between a C128 and a 1571 floppy disk drive
Today I received the 1571 I had acquired on eBay. Having received the C128 yesterday, this afternoon, straight after work, I was eager to take a few traces of the communication between the two 🙂 The screenshot below shows that … Continue reading
Posted in Retrocomputing, Reverse Engineering, Technical
Tagged Commodore 64, disks, dumping, IEC, IECHost, preservation, software
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IECHost: support for Fast Serial and Burst mode
I recently decided to look into the request from an IECHost user to add support for the fast data transfer modes implemented in Commodore 1571 drives and the Commodore 128. In order to do so, I ended up acquiring both … Continue reading
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Tagged Commodore 64, disks, dumping, IEC, IECHost, preservation, software
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IECHost: yet another new feature coming for its GUI client
As requested by another one of its users, the IECHost GUI client is going to present the current track and sector the mouse pointer is hovering on 🙂 Stay tuned!
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Tagged Commodore 64, disks, dumping, IEC, IECHost, preservation, software
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