Re: Commodore drives can be controlled on Apple II serial!

[CUTjefbla@bconnex.net (Jeff Blakeney)]

On 21 Mar 1998 08:22:43 GMT, supertimer@aol.com (Supertimer) wrote:

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>It's fun to have the Commodore drives working on an A2.  The
>drives can do all kinds of tricks.  There was a Spartan II+ emulator
>by Mimic Systems of Vancouver in the early 1980 to 1986 time
>period.  It was a II+ clone box that plugged into the C64's ports.
>The 1541 drive could be modified to read and write A2 disks...

I have a Spartan here at home but haven't used it for much.  My
brother gave it to me for Christmas many years ago.

I never had any manuals for it so I had no idea that you could
read/write Apple II disks with a 1541.  I just plugged a Disk ][
controller and drive into slot 6 and used it.  :-)

The Spartan is a standalone II+ compatible computer if you plug a II+
keyboard into it.  Using the C64 as the II+ keyboard allowed you to
send C= key comibinations as macros.  C= C send CATALOG for example.

I was talking to Tony Diaz of Alltech Electronics about it in chat on
Delphi (I think it was during the Shareware Solutions II multi-service
chat) and I'm hoping to get him some images of my Spartan sometime
this month.  I think he wants to add the images to his web pages.

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