I know Star Commander is supposed to support these in the next version, but
an updated version seems to have not come out in forever (not to be rude, I
really like the program, but I also really need to be able to create a disk
image with error tracks etc.). Anyone know of a program that works with the
XE1541 and a 1541-II that can actually do GCR reading to G64 images?

Gordon Pettey

Hi Gordon,

> image with error tracks etc.). Anyone know of a program that works with the
> XE1541 and a 1541-II that can actually do GCR reading to G64 images?

Have a look at:
    http://markus.brenner.de/mnib/

As The Star Commander is already able to do 'serial nibbling'
to SixPack-ZipCode images, that can be converted to G64 with
S2G (http://markus.brenner.de/), I assume, that you want to
backupmore advanced protections. These can only be made with
a parallel cable or a RAMBoard. Currently only the parallel
cable is supported by known PC based transfer tools.


Womo

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Hey Womo..

I've got a XAP adapter board that has the parallel built into it. I haven't
installed the parallel port in a drive yet though. What PC based transfer
tools support the parallel port that can create gcr images?

-P

"Wolfgang Moser" <pwnah@d81.de.invalid> wrote in message
news:c0cptb$dqr$1@online.de...
> Hi Gordon,
>
> > image with error tracks etc.). Anyone know of a program that works with
the
> > XE1541 and a 1541-II that can actually do GCR reading to G64 images?
>
> Have a look at:
>     http://markus.brenner.de/mnib/
>
> As The Star Commander is already able to do 'serial nibbling'
> to SixPack-ZipCode images, that can be converted to G64 with
> S2G (http://markus.brenner.de/), I assume, that you want to
> backupmore advanced protections. These can only be made with
> a parallel cable or a RAMBoard. Currently only the parallel
> cable is supported by known PC based transfer tools.
>
>
> Womo
>
> -- 
>    ------ to obtain more infos about me, look up the page  ------
>      ---- http://www.wmsr.de      pwnah (at) d81 (dot) de  ----

Hi Pathos,

> I've got a XAP adapter board that has the parallel built into it. I haven't
> installed the parallel port in a drive yet though. What PC based transfer
> tools support the parallel port that can create gcr images?

As far as I can tell, only mnib can create GCR images and it supports
(rather, _requires_! ;-) ) a parallel cable between the drive and the
PC. So the list is, currently, pretty short... ;-) Bye,

Joe
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I don't trust myself to do that to my only working drive... anybody in
Dallas, TX area that does that kind of stuff for other people? Or is there
anybody I can buy a drive from that has already had the parallel support
added?

"Joe Forster/STA" <sta@ludens.elte.hu> wrote in message
news:5WJ4a6TBGiBa@ludens...
> Hi Pathos,
>
> > I've got a XAP adapter board that has the parallel built into it. I
haven't
> > installed the parallel port in a drive yet though. What PC based
transfer
> > tools support the parallel port that can create gcr images?
>
> As far as I can tell, only mnib can create GCR images and it supports
> (rather, _requires_! ;-) ) a parallel cable between the drive and the
> PC. So the list is, currently, pretty short... ;-) Bye,
>
> Joe
> -- 
> KOV�CS Bal�zs alias Joe Forster/STA      sta@c64.org; http://sta.c64.org
> Orsolya u. 5. IV/12., 1204 Budapest, Hungary; +36-1-285-3881, 6-10PM CET