Path: utzoo!utgpu!water!watmath!clyde!att!chinet!fmsrl7!mibte!jbh From: jbh@mibte.UUCP (James Harvey) Newsgroups: comp.sys.cbm Subject: Re: Woodpeckers inside 1541 drives (was cbm disks to DOS) Message-ID: <2656@mibte.UUCP> Date: 6 Jul 88 16:27:36 GMT References: <935@flatline.UUCP> <168@lakart.UUCP> <19681@watmath.waterloo.edu> Organization: Michigan Bell Telephone Company Lines: 45 In article <19681@watmath.waterloo.edu>, kgdykes@watmath.waterloo.edu (Ken Dykes) writes: > > "is there a program/driver whatever, or otherwise is it straighforward > to read cbm disks on a dos machine" > -- > - Ken Dykes, Software Development Group, U.of.Waterloo > kgdykes@watmath.uucp kgdykes@water.bitnet > kgdykes@waterloo.csnet I have done a lot of this type of conversion using my recently aquired Amiga 2000. I have a friend who has been after me for some time to convert my C64 Printshop collection and also my rec.humor collection to IBM disk format. I used an external Amiga 1020 5 1/4 inch disk drive to read the CBM disks into the Amiga and also to write out IBM compatible files onto MS-DOS formatted disks. There are two (at least) programs for the Amiga that will read C64 formatted disks. One is Disk-to-Disk which doesn't work very well, the other is a program named "Transfer" which comes with the "C64 Emulator 2" which worked perfectly, and can even use the 1541 disk drive. I used Dos-to-DOS to copy the files back to 5 1/4 inch IBM disks. This works very well and is quite fast. Your friendly local Amiga dealer may be able to help you with your project. It's a good demonstration of the capabilities of the Amiga. If you can't find an Amiga with the 5 1/4 inch disk drive, you could use the "C64 Emulator" with your friends 1541 drive, and then copy the files back to 3 1/2" IBM disks. It's not too hard to find IBM PCs these days with the 3 1/2" drives. I do not have a Commodore 128 with 1571 drive but there is a package called "Big Blue Reader" that will read and write IBM format disks on the 1571. I have never tried this method. -- Jim Harvey | "Ask not for whom the bell Michigan Bell Telephone | tolls and you will only pay 29777 Telegraph | Station-to-Station rates." Southfield, Mich. 48034 | ihnp4!mibte!jbh or try ulysses!gamma!mibte!jbh