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[Ushabin]

I just got a Commodore 64C and of course it didn't come with a drive. I've got a 1571 in the deep recesses of my storage building that someone had given me. I'd like to use it since they were double sided (and I lost my disk notcher long ago ). Before I go to the trouble of digging the drive out of storage, I just want to make sure the 64C can use the 1571 in double-sided mode. I seem to recall that you could hook a 1571 up to the 64, but it would act like a 1541 (single sided).

Thanks!

Marty

[Artlover]

By default, the 1571 will detect the slow serial port and fall into 1541 single-sided mode. However, you can still tell the drive to go into 1571 mode and use double sided disks.

Just type:
open15,8,15,"u0>m1":close15

Should you ever want to force it back to 1541 mode, type:
open15,8,15,"u0>m0":close15

[Ushabin]

Cool, thanks! Guess I'll start digging for the 1571.

I'll be looking for software too, so if anybody has any they want to sell or trade for Atari stuff (not that I have much more then a few spare commons), PM me.

Marty