Denial

Breaking news: at my office I've found two packs of 10 5.25" disks labeled "Magnum MD1D - Hub Ring - single side - double density - soft sectoring". Still SEALED in their plastic bag and jewel case! I wonder if I should use them or sell them :D Bonus: look what lies next to them (not ...

I'm no expert but it sounds like something that might happen in the long run and/or under extreme circumstances. Anyway, it looks like the OC-118 is one hell of a disk drive. Other than being back to normal with just a blow of compressed air from the outside, it was able to format, read and write to...

Good ideas! Kind of the same thinking I did in my Pyrotech with the weapons and the extra bombs, only in a zombified fashion.

Feature request: why don't you consider adding some more lives?
It's a bit frustrating when you make that small mistake and it's game over right away.

I can confirm that I can transfer data to/from the OC-118 with CBM Transfer (i.e. with opencbm) at a much faster rate than the stock 1541 speed. The problem is in VICE. VICE also uses opencbm, but no matter what I do, I can only get the stock transfer rates i.e. utterly slow. It would be nice to be ...

Do you actually mean the head itself can be damaged? Or the amplifier circuit mentioned by Mike?

Is there anything that was not discussed before on these boards?
I am relieved... and the drive is still working OK today. Thanks
The only drawback is I have broken the seals. I have voided the 1989 warranty

Oh no!!! I may have already, then :oops: Before I realized I was using the wrong media, I formatted more than a dozen HDs... :oops: Then today I found some old DDs and wanted to transfer them to D64 files in order to reuse them. I successfully copied a few with CBM Transfer, then I started having er...

This solution is similar to what is used in the italian symbolic key layout for x64, which I don't recall where I got from. I am working at my version of the x64 keyboard anyway, to match the xvic one. Once done, I'll give a whistle.

I've decided to map three Commodore keys to unused keys, to solve the problem with the inability to access some PETSCII symbols due to the Italian keyboard layout: F9 doubles as + F10 doubles as £ F11 doubles as * This way you can get the symbolic intuitive key layout and still be able to access the...

I bought a ZoomFloppy and recorded a batch of disks on my Oceanic OC-118 drive, with my VIC-20 game Pyrotech on them. I used a batch of new 5.25" unmarked disks I found in a closet; I don't remember where I got them from. I did have some problems as it sometimes required more than one attempt t...

I've found this rather unnerving page: https://groups.google.com/forum/#!topic/zoomfloppy-users/QqU70vj9c0s They are saying that the ZoomFloppy can't use any speed loader or native DOS burst since it can't execute 6502 code. Is it so? Am I stuck with stock CBM speeds whenever I am using ZoomFloppy, ...

There are a few issues to figure out before it can be committed to VICE. 1) in some cases I had to define two symbols (one not shifted and one shifted) for keys that, in the Commodore keyboard, have a single symbol and a PETSCII symbol. One such example is the " ' "/" ? " key whi...

Another thing I realized is that whenever you define a symbol you don't need to also define the SHIFTed symbol if it matches the Commodore keyboard. I.e. you don't have to define SHIFT+1 in the Italian keyboard, as it's "!" both in the Italian keyboard and on the Commodore keyboard. Hence ...

Actually, the question can be expanded/morphed into a more generic one: which fast load methods are available in VICE using a ZoomFloppy/XUM1541 interface and a 1541 type drive? None of the fast loader cartridges I tried in x64 worked (by working I mean "it loaded the game from the real drive a...