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.
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Our Theme Song is "Sweet" from the "Re-Think" album by Galigan
Thanks for listening!
- Earl