Does some one know if the commodor64 5 1/4 floppy disk are readble in a standard pc 5 1/4 diskdrive.
I got 2 diskrives and wandering if i could read those disks in a pc equiped with those drives.
No, they are not readable as far as I know, but there were some ways to connect a 1541 drive to a PC using a custom cable.
Why shouldn't they be readable?
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I remember reading somewhere that C64 drives write to the disk in such a way that they are not readable on PC drives. I believe it's something to do with the controller in the drive itself.
The only solution I ever used was an x-1541 cable. They're really not difficult to make. Connect it to a DOS or Win9x machine to transfer the data to a disk image using software like Star Commander.
yup, MiniMax, they are not readable. About 13 years ago, I thought myself clever and bought a PC drive to read my C64 disks... Well, doesn't work and I needed a an LPT device that let me hook my old C64 dirve up to the PC.
if its hardware its oke but .. i saw a program who can identify the type of disk and how the disk was writtin in .. its a raw read program which can identify everthing on a floppy disk even if its unreadable due to writting on a different way.(or system)
about that interface controller i thought it was on a amiga system but i could be wrong .
I f you get me ....
Did some read-up on the issue. Seems the main problem is due to 2 different ways of encoding the bits written to the disk: MFM versus GCR
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Modified_Frequency_Modulation
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Group_Code_Recording
So without the proper hardware (controller) it looks like mission impossible.
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