| Commodore 64 "System Utilities"? [message #315058] |
Mon, 28 March 2016 17:57  |
Brandon Taylor
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I'm an Apple II veteran, and have used Apple II System Utilities at one point or another. I'm wondering, did Commodore 64 also have a System Utilities disk for, say, copying files from one disk to another, duplicating and formatting disks, etc.?
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| Re: Commodore 64 "System Utilities"? [message #315100 is a reply to message #315058] |
Tue, 29 March 2016 12:50  |
Robert Roland
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On Mon, 28 Mar 2016 14:57:42 -0700 (PDT), Brandon Taylor
<bt610490@gmail.com> wrote:
> I'm an Apple II veteran, and have used Apple II System Utilities at one point or another. I'm wondering, did Commodore 64 also have a System Utilities disk for, say, copying files from one disk to another, duplicating and formatting disks, etc.?
My 1541 drive came with a test/demo disk. It contains a program that
can copy files from one drive to another. It also contains a DOS wedge
and a couple of test programs.
These programs were not really useful, since third party programs are
abundant and perform much better.
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RoRo
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| Re: Commodore 64 "System Utilities"? [message #315130 is a reply to message #315058] |
Tue, 29 March 2016 20:12 |
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In article <87zithm3ld.fsf@usenet.ankman.de>, Andreas Kohlbach
<march.10.ankman@spamgourmet.net> wrote:
> Your Name wrote on 28. March 2016:
>> In article <d5b27ba3-0938-4e0f-8661-0adfa060aabc@googlegroups.com>,
>> Brandon Taylor <bt610490@gmail.com> wrote:
>>>
>>> I'm an Apple II veteran, and have used Apple II System Utilities at one
>>> point or another. I'm wondering, did Commodore 64 also have a System
>>> Utilities disk for, say, copying files from one disk to another,
>>> duplicating and formatting disks, etc.?
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>> Yep, numerous third-party applications for doing all sorts of things.
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> I seem to remember many of them were from the cracker scene. ;-)
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> At some point a pal had two 1541s and it was then possible to use one of
> the disk copy programs (was it called "Nibbler Copy"?) and copy one disk
> to the other in under 20 seconds without the need of swapping disks.
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> Ah, I found one called "Turbo Nibbler" in my collection from 1983. It's
> described here
> < http://remotecpu.com/downloads/download/24-disk-copiers/177- turbo-nibb
> ler-v22.html>.
Some were "cracker" group programs. Some were commercially sold
programs. There were also the commercially sold freeze cartridges that
could dump memory content to disk (or tape) and that could be reloaded
without needing the cartridge.
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