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From: Leif Bloomquist on 13 Apr 2010 10:22

"Groepaz" <groepaz(a)gmx.net> wrote in message
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>> 2. The "Warp" part of Warpcopy might be doing unnatural things to the IEC
>> bus: For example, I know that it's highly recommended to only have a

> and the most important advice at that point: it will most likely not work
> on
> NTSC

Actually, Warpcopy works perfectly on NTSC for reading (22 seconds!),
writing is another matter (slow slow slow!).

But we know now that ultra-fast D64 write is possible on NTSC, as soci did
it for the id64 plugin on the IDE64 ;-) Just need Graham to adjust the
Warpcopy timing...


From: Joe Forster/STA on 13 Apr 2010 10:25
> Actually, Warpcopy works perfectly on NTSC for reading (22 seconds!),
> writing is another matter (slow slow slow!).
>
> But we know now that ultra-fast D64 write is possible on NTSC, as soci did
> it for the id64 plugin on the IDE64 ;-)  Just need Graham to adjust the
> Warpcopy timing...

It might only be a too low soft interleave (= the distance of sectors
written after each other). If so, it's extremely easy to change -
probably even by hacking into the runnable code. ;-)
From: Leif Bloomquist on 13 Apr 2010 13:21

"Joe Forster/STA" <sta(a)c64.org> wrote in message
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> It might only be a too low soft interleave (= the distance of sectors
> written after each other). If so, it's extremely easy to change -
> probably even by hacking into the runnable code. ;-)

I suppose. I'd love to see several improvements to Warpcopy64, and I'd even
make them myself if I could get the source code ;-)

1. Support drive numbers up to 15, for easier use on IDE64.

2. A means of sending arbitrary DOS commands to the C64. We could change
IDE64 directories, etc. from the PC. Useful on 1541s
as well, of course.

3. Fast D64-write on NTSC systems.

4. A way to set the MAC address.


From: Groepaz on 14 Apr 2010 12:00
Leif Bloomquist wrote:

>
> "Joe Forster/STA" <sta(a)c64.org> wrote in message
> news:c1864eb2-ecbb-4f8c-8fd7-265a37965f49(a)w42g2000yqm.googlegroups.com...
>
>> It might only be a too low soft interleave (= the distance of sectors
>> written after each other). If so, it's extremely easy to change -
>> probably even by hacking into the runnable code. ;-)
>
> I suppose. I'd love to see several improvements to Warpcopy64, and I'd
> even make them myself if I could get the source code ;-)

unfortunately, graham lost the source in a hd crash ... however, pretty much
all of the pc side of things is already available (in "diskimagery64") - the
c64 side cant be terribly hard to resource :)

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From: redrumloa on 14 Apr 2010 12:42
Interesting replies. It started working when initally after I
unplugged the uIEC from the serial chain, which made me think it may
have caused a problem. Then I plugged the uIEC back in and it still
worked... I hadn't heard of issues with NTSC machines, is that just
with "fast" mode or in general?

@Leif

I finally got a disk image with SETMAC on it, but the change does not
stay after resetting the system.
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