C= 1541 Disk Drive Emulator

[TitanUranus]

Here's a thought (perhaps it will attract a tiny bit more interest than my last post) - it would be absolutely AMAZING if the WIZ could be used as a C=1541 disk drive, serving a real C64 by attaching d64 images. This is a dream of mine - I can't afford an ultimate 1541 having spent my money on a wiz instead. There is an MSDOS 1541 emulator that even copes with fastloaders, sourcecode is available here:

http://www.kotinet.com/1541/1541emu2002-07-21.zip

I realise this is a million to one shot, but if you don't ask you don't get! I realise the emulator is for using a parallel port on a PC, but is there really no way to use some jiggery pokery to make a cable to connect a c64 to a Wiz and use as a 1541 (you might as well make it fastloader compatible while you're at it - ha ha) disk drive? If this could be done I am willing to bear your children (and being a man that is some commitment!).

While I am here, can I just ask if any work is being done on Vice for the Wiz? It's a great emulator, but enabling true 1541 compatibility really slows things down. I did figure out a command switch which means it will only slow down during loading from disk, not during play, but I would love to be able to play demo's that play and load at the same time.

 

[Squidge]

It's possible, but you would need to design an interface and then write appropriate software. I don't think anyone is going to do that.

 

[TitanUranus]

Not even for me? I'm the most important person in the world to me you know.

 

[Diddl]

This would be easier on a NDS cause there a some hardware extension to connect IEC bus from C64: dsserial, GameIO


On WIZ you need a similar hardware extension. Either a controller, a CPLD or a simple IO port.

The software is nearly finished. Look at VICE emulator for WIZ. VICE has a "real drive" emulation flag, if set a perfect 1541 emulation will be done.

 

[frolik]

I would fork out serious money for this,..

But I will probably wait for one of these sweet looking bits of hardware, because I can't see anyone undertaking this for the Wiz.

 

[Diddl]

Yes, 1541-u is a super device! It is like a real 1541, emulation is perfect!

 

[TitanUranus]

I cant afford one, can't you write an emulator for it

I have a 486 laptop acting as a 40mb server, but it can't do fastloaders