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OK, so if I were to connect my drive to a JiffyDOS equipped C64 (or VIC-20) it would seamlessly switch to JiffyDOS operations, right?
And what about VICE, are the JiffyDOS ROMs even available as dumps, and would they work in VICE with a physical drive?

To be pedantically precise, my drive is not truly an Oceanic OC-118 Excelerator+, rather a clone of it, labeled "KY-1000" (no brand). I bought it new around 1989 in Italy for the nominal equivalent of 120 Euros. It is identical to the OC-118, and the user manual is also identical (I found ...

eslapion wrote: On a drive equipped with JiffyDOS, it reads: "73,JIFFYDOS 5.0 1541,00,00"

That is indeed the output of "cbmctrl status 8" after powerup.

I have one of these floppy drives, which were basically 1541 clones with an external power supply. This drive apparently ships with a JiffyDOS 5.0 ROM and a second socket that can be populated with an alternative ROM and activated with a dip switch. I used the drive with my stock C64 back in the day...

Massive improvement.

I've got most issues worked out. Some of my disks were bad, and that explains the erratic behaviour. The issue with "Rename" and "Scratch" not working seems to be tied to how the files are named; I've found out that if the files are named normally (no uppercase letters, which app...

Ce l'ho fatta!
Tastiera scaricabile dal thread nella sezione internazionale.

And... there you go! Italian fellows, feel free to beta test it :D I had to make these non intuitive choices: - the left arrow is mapped to the "\" - "|" key (leftmost on row 1) where it would be on a VIC, as there is no symbolic equivalent in the IT keyboard - similarly, the up ...

Success! I've got it figured out. The first thing to understand is that the shift codes are cumulative. The second thing is that shiftcode "40" means "the key can be shifted" (8) + "another definition for the same key will follow" (32). With this in mind, I've been able...

I still can't make head or tail about it
How does this scheme translate to a VICE keymap file?
It's particularly the third code (the shiftflag) that's eluding me.

Grazie delle informazioni! Però ti confermo che in VICE si può cambiare la mappatura della tastiera. Infatti per X64 ho (non ricordo se faceva parte del pacchetto originale o se l'avevo scaricato da qualche parte) un file con la mappatura della tastiera simbolica Italiano standard per PC; in questo ...

Bah, I think the problem might actually be with the media or the drive. It works or it doesn't. Maybe I should try to clean and align the heads. Anyway, opencbm is confusing. I've installed the latest version, which contains both x86 and x64 binaries. Since my system is x64, only the x64 binaries we...

I've found an updated package for OpenCBM so I upgraded to that (0.4.99.99).
With this version, there was an improvement with VICE: X64 now seems to work, XVIC now at least detects the drive, but I can't read anything except the directory (i.e. what was happening before in X64).

I wanted to trasfer files between a Commodore 1541 disk drive and a modern PC, so I purchased the ultimate USB interface i.e. ZoomFloppy. I have had mixed results with the following software for Windows: 1) DirMaster: seems to work 100%. Reads, writes and formats OK 2) CBMXFer: reads and writes, but...

Non sono sicuro che parliamo della stessa cosa. Mi spiego meglio. Io uso una normale tastiera Italiana su Windows 7. Vorrei che in VICE, specificamente in XVIC, per ottenere - solo per fare un esempio - i due punti si potesse fare SHIFT + PUNTO anzichè premere alla cieca il tasto "ò". In a...