Post by Cube Inc. on Mar 25, 2023 10:55:49 GMT -7
Starting to rebuild my collection of Commodore gear, I have got a few SFD-1001 disk drives now (and some more parts on the way) which spawned an unanswered question to my mind that I thought I would post here: In order to connect IEEE disk drives (from the PET series of computers) up to the Commodore 64, an interface cartridge is necessary. I used to have two of the golden standard cards for such a thing, the Buscard ][ by Batteries Included. While I sold those off on ebay over a decade ago, inexplicably (but thankfully) I kept my G-Link card, which does the same task but eats up about 8k of BASIC memory when it is plugged in. This causes a good number of the programs I like to use not to run, making the cartridge much less useful. However, I think that for merely transferring files to and from SFD-1001 formatted disks, which hold 1MB each (4133 blocks!!) it is acceptable to transfer to and from other media like the CMD hard drive.
Where's the question you are by now probably asking! It is simply this: Have you or anyone you know ever tried using an IEEE interface cartridge with a CMD RAMLink? What was the outcome? Did it work? Were there limitations? How did the IEEE cartridge(s) react or behave to the JiffyDOS routines? Did you have to disable JiffyDOS in order to make the IEEE cart work?
