Anyone made a XE1541 cable

[virtvic]

Has anyone had experience making an XE1541 cable and used an old pc to load games to a c64 using 64hdd software?

I know you can get the SD2 whatever cards for these machines, but a DIN plug, cable and LPT plug is gloriously ghetto for me!

 

[cosine]

I bought one years ago, and converted it to an XM1541 cable (swap 2 wires over), but I found 64HDD a bit flaky. It might have been the parallel port on the PC I was using, of course, but I just transfer to actual 5 1/4" disks these days.

 

[virtvic]

They still work ok? Wow.

 

[virtvic]

I've also been looking into this, en even more compact solution and 'sort of' using original hardware (ish)

http://www.bartvenneker.nl/index.php?art=0006

 

[virtvic]

Unfortunately, unless it's laid out idiot proof I couldn't make the circuit up myself...

 

[virtvic]

I'm gonna give it a go though!

 

[cosine]

They still work ok? Wow.

Most still do yeah

I have lots of them.

 

[virtvic]

I've been looking at the SD2IEC too.

Seems to be almost instant loading.

 

[Buttonbasher]

Vic

If you can get the circuit and parts I can knock it up for you.

Spence

 

[virtvic]

Cheers, Spence - I may just do that...

or, pay £25 and have a nice one already in a case etc...

 

[virtvic]

Could this be done for the atari sei port too?

Hmm?

 

[grobda]

Not done C64 but ive hooked up bbc micro, dragon 32, amiga and atari 800 to PC's for various serial/parallel transfers and i gotta say

ITS TEDIOUS AS HELL

get a SD2XXX

the only alternative id consider is something like omniflop, which will write some esoteric formats using a PC. your mileage may vary but ive done beeb and atari disks with it.

http://www.shlock.co.uk/Utils/OmniFlop/OmniFlop.htm#OmniFlop_Overview

the only cbm one i see is the 1581.