Re: Use PC as 1541?

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From: Pontus Berg
Date: Tue, 03 Oct 1995 08:40

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Danne <daba@algonet.se> wrote:

>Is there a program that does the opposite of what Star Commander (and
>similar) can do? I.e. instead of reading/writing to a 1541, from the PC,
>why not use the same cable for connecting the C64 with the PC?

Don't know!

>First of all... is this possible? (everything's possible, but is it
>EASY to do?)

Doing one to work with the DOS commands would be possible. I have such 
programs on the Amiga, that can deal with the basic set such as load and 
save. Mind that this is normal speed and! It is of couse possible on a PC 
as well if it has bidirectonal parallellport! (All of them don't - Again 
PC hardware sucks!)

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