Aug 15, 2005
Welcome to show #007! Today's podcast focuses on making the connection between retro computers and modern-day PCs.
Topics and links discussed in the podcast...
E-mails came in from Alan, Ryan and Dave with Libsyn - thanks! Always great to get e-mails regarding the show.
The C64 Take Away
Podcast is, in their words, "Your regular fix of Commodore 64
tunes, remixes, news and whatever takes our fancy. Produced and
presented by Jan Lund Thomsen of Remix.Kwed.Org fame". Also check
out the parent site, Slay
Radio, for streaming retro remixes at various bandwidths.
Juiced.GS is a quarterly Apple
II publication.
The X1541 series of
cables connect Commodore computers and disk drives to the
parallel port of a standard PC.
The Apple Disk
Transfer program lets you take Apple disk images, and using a
serial cable and real Apple II, turn those images into real
disks!
Good old RS232 serial ports have been around forever, and can hook
up the old and new with relative ease. Here's a site
with lots of technical goodness on RS232.
The 64HDD software package, both
free and professional versions, allow you to turn a DOS-based PC
into a floppy and hard drive emulator for Commodore computers.
The Star Commander is a
DOS shell program that can handle C64 disk formats, and permits
copying of files and disk images to a Commodore drive connected
with one of the X cables.
The SIO2PC cable
connects Atari computers to a PC. The PC can emulate storage,
printers, and more.
The Catweasel series of disk controllers are used in modern PCs,
and can make your 3.5 and 5.25 drives capable of reading and
writing foreign disk formats for retro computer systems.
Information on various Catweasel models is available at the Individual
Computers site.
Be sure to send us any comments, questions or feedback to retrobits@gmail.com
Our Theme Song is "Sweet" from the "Re-Think" album by Galigan
Thanks for listening!
- Earl
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