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On Saturday, May 7, 2022 at 10:28:11 PM UTC-7, Paul Förster wrote:
> Hi Kenzo,
> On 08. May, 2022 at 05:57:00 CEST, "Kenzo"  wrote: 
> > The 1571 won't power up but using the same power supply the 1541 II works 
> > fine. And the second 1541 also works fine. So I have two drives working,
but 
> > not the 1571 yet.
> I'm not sure that you can use a 1541-II power supply with a 1571. I'd do
some 
> research before trying that because a bad power supply can not only not
power 
> up the attached device correctly but it can kill it. So I'd be careful when 
> trying a Commodore power supply with a different device than what it was
built 
> for. You should basically always assume that Commodore power supplies are
NOT 
> interchangeable between devices.
> > And I had 4 computers in storage, a 64 and three original type128s. The 64 
> > powers up, but composite connected monitor is blank. I have to do some 
> > research for that. Maybe the 64 does not output composite video?
> The C64 has a composite signal. It's pin 4 of the connector. 
> 
> See: http://www.hardwarebook.info/C128/C64C_Video 
> 
> But your VIC chip may be fried (or the monitor of course). Or it may suffer 
> from a bad connection. It's hard to say without detailed info. I suggest 
> taking the VIC chip out and clean the contacts, then put it back in. This
can 
> be easily done if the chip sits in a socket. If it's soldered in then you
may 
> have some soldering to do. But instead of soldering it back in I would put
in 
> a socket.
> > The three 128s all work fine. Next I will try the two 1764 ram expansion 
> > modules. The one I have that was boxed comes with a commodore higher
powered 
> > power supply. I will check the output voltages before powering up with it.
> I can't comment on the 1764. I never had one of those.
> > So now that I can read disks, I guess the next step is to clean and lube
the 
> > drives, and then figure out a way to convert the physical floppies to .d64 
> > files, since I don't expect the drives to work forever.
> Most things are on the web already in d64 format. You'd have to search hard 
> for some things, though. But if you want to do the conversion yourself, then 
> there are several options, of which I can recomment two: 
> 
> 1) if you want to do it on the C64/C128, then use method 4 of: 
> 
> https://diginoodles.com/writing/media-production/transferring-
ommodore-64-disks-to-modern-formats 
> 
> 2) get a Star Commander cable and connect the drive to a PC running DOS.
Then 
> you can use the Star Commander: 
> https://sta.c64.org/sc.html 
> 
> Though the second option is very comfortable and reminiscent of the well
known 
> Norton Commander, it requires an old PC running DOS and having a parallel 
> port. You'd also need to aquire one of the X1541 flavor of cables. It's all 
> documented on the Star Commander homepage. 
> 
> Hope this helps. 
> 
> Cheers 
> Paul
Zoomfloppy?  Looks great for converting physical floppies to D64 copies in
windows and reverse?

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