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

[Patrick Schaefer <pa.schaefer@fz-juelich.de>]

David Empson wrote:

> The only exception to this is the phase lines, which give you a four-bit
> parallel output that can be controlled directly by software, and
> probably the sense line, which gives you a one bit direct input.

The easiest way to connect a 1541 is using the AN and SW lines from the
game port. As far is I remember, adapter cables and software for file
transfer were available in the 80s.


But you cannot boot from the game port! If you want to use the 1541 to
load dos, you'll need some firmware code to support PR#n. A printer
card  has 2k ROM and a lot of input/output lines...

Patrick