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Format a disc on Atari 800XL

Started by GUNHED, 17:02, 25 October 18

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Bryce

#25
Quote from: GUNHED on 15:03, 19 November 18

Looks like the Atari beats the C64 by far.  8)


Not exactly a massive achievement... Oh look, I can jump higher than an elephant can. :D

Bryce.

Widukind

#26
Quote from: LambdaMikel on 17:51, 19 November 18
Great explanation as to what happened with the C64 piece of .... goodness

Thanks for the quotation and link.

Bryce

The music trick can be done with any disk drive, not just C64 drives.

Bryce.

robcfg

Certainly.


But C64 users had the time to get bored and do it...  :P

LambdaMikel

#29
Quote from: Widukind on 10:49, 20 November 18
Thanks for the quotation and link.
It explains why we CPC users always rightly made fun of our C64 friends by saying that our CPC 464 loaded (nearly) faster from tape than a C64 from disc. And man they got upset when I got my CPC 664 with a real disc drive... :-)
But one cool bit with the C64 disc drive was that you could make "music" with it (with its mechanics). Not good for the drive, but it was just a C64 anyway, a ,,Brotkiste"...
Well, if not as a disk drive, I knew the 1541 had to be good for something  ;)
Also, they had the first multi core / multi processor system - certain programs (mandelbrot set / appleman computation) used the 1541 cpu as well  8)


EDIT: Well, the BBC Micro also had multi processor support... 

LambdaMikel

#30
Quote from: Bryce on 08:18, 20 November 18
Not exactly a massive achievement... Oh look, I can jump higher than an elephant can. :D

Bryce.
I think SIO is pretty cool - the precursor of USB  8)
And that stuff is much older than C64 / CPC... all of this was designed over 40 years ago.

Bryce

Very true, however, I'd consider SIO to be the pre-cursor to RS232 rather than USB.

Bryce.

GUNHED

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Bryce

Quote from: GUNHED on 13:59, 21 November 18
RS232 was introduced 1960.

Yes, but not for computers. It only got introduced as a computer interface with the arrival of the IBM PC in the 80's.
However, the inventor of SIO was in fact involved in the development of the USB standard, so LambdaMikel's statement is correct.

Bryce.

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