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 Message 3883 
 Jim Brain to Frodo Baggins 
 Re: SD2IEC card drive recommendation 
 10 Dec 22 00:44:42 
 
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On 12/10/2022 12:00 AM, Frodo Baggins wrote:
> On Friday, October 7, 2022 at 11:20:22 PM UTC-4, Bucko wrote:
>> On Fri 7-Oct-2022 12:37a, Robert Bernardo@3:770/3.0 said to Fred Beans:
>> RB> On Sunday, October 2, 2022 at 8:39:42 PM UTC-4, Fred Beans wrote:
>>
>> RB> Most SD2IEC's being sold use a cassette port adapter so that power
>> RB> can be drawn from that C64/128/VIC-20 cassette port edge connector.
>> RB> However, the Plus/4 uses a 7-pin mini DIN cassette port connector, and
so
>> RB> for the Plus/4, you'd have to buy/build
>> RB> an adapter with a male, mini-DIN plug and a female cassette port edge
>> RB> socket, or you'd have to find SD2IEC's that don't draw power from the
>> RB> cassette port. Such SD2IEC's, which draw their power from the Commodore
>>
>> I don't use the cassette port on my uIEC/SD, I picked up a USB power cord
and
>> plug that into the uIEC/sd and get power from that, the unit just sits on
the
>> table behind my Ultimate 64..
>
>
> Hi all - I bought the SD2IEC from Jim Brain  -  I have not been able to run
a .d64 file - any ideas what I am doing wrong?

You need to treat D64 images (and all image types) like a directory or
folder.  So, "cd" into the D64 image.

Jim

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