There are 3 messages totalling 81 lines in this issue. Topics of the day: 1. #^@$##^^@%$#&-it. I deleted the letter!!! 2. Hard Drives and RAMLinks 3. Commodore World issue, waiting... ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Date: Wed, 24 Jul 1996 23:26:44 -0600 From: "Tom A. Gislason" Subject: Re: #^@$##^^@%$#&-it. I deleted the letter!!! On Wed, 24 Jul 1996, Steven A Cavanaugh wrote: > I have a commodore question.I have an ibm machine,anbd a 10 year old c64 > computer.Is it possible to commect the two machines through a serial > port and be able to send software from one computer to the other as backup? Reply as soon as possible.. > Yes there is. There is a hardware/software file called 64Net. It will allow you to use a PC as a storage device for the 64/128. Plus you can use all items you have on your PC, such as CD-ROM. The author is from Oz (Austrailia), and Gaylene Morance might be able to help you with the name of the author. Tom Gislason - Sysop - Emergency Call BBS (403)734-2382 (403)934-4756 Pearako Network Node #10 - CommNet Node #10 Internet address: gislason@freenet.calgary.ab.ca FidoNet address: Tom Gislason @ 1:134/281.0 ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 24 Jul 1996 23:20:11 -0600 From: "Tom A. Gislason" Subject: Re: Hard Drives and RAMLinks On Tue, 23 Jul 1996, Aaron Baugher wrote: > Date: Thu, 18 Jul 1996 16:19:51 -0400 > From: Michael Bendure > > I would kill for the FIND command and some of the other utilities > built into the Lt. K, for the CMD. While the CMD does have a nice > wedge and subpartioning, some of the programming utilities on the > Lt. Kernal would be a nice addition for the CMD. :) > > I've thought about writing a find command for ACE+CMD, but of course > it would be very slow, with all the communications that would have to > take place to the drive. It occured to me that you could speed it up > considerably by writing it to run primarily within the drive RAM > itself. For this, though, you'd need a memory map and some > programming information for the HD-DOS. Does anyone know where/if > this can be had? > > On a related note, how does one go about upgrading the HD-DOS in a CMD > HD? I bought a used HD that has a DOS that's too old for Gateway128, > and I'd like to upgrade it. I'm assuming that it's available from > CMD, but it's not mentioned on their home page catalog-type info. > > Aaron > -------------------------------------------------------- > Aaron J. Baugher http://www.bcl.net/~abaugher > Software Engineer abaugher@bcl.net > Basic Communications, Ltd. _Roark_ on IRC > -------------------------------------------------------- > Yes, you can order the latest HD-DOS from CMD. If I remember correctly the DOS is something like $15.00 or less for the disk. Tom Gislason - Sysop - Emergency Call BBS (403)734-2382 (403)934-4756 Pearako Network Node #10 - CommNet Node #10 Internet address: gislason@freenet.calgary.ab.ca FidoNet address: Tom Gislason @ 1:134/281.0 ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 25 Jul 1996 23:06:38 -0230 From: Adam Vardy Subject: Commodore World issue, waiting... It seems to me that it has been a real long time since I last received an issue of CW. What was the last one other people received? - Adam ------------------------------ End of COMMODOR Digest - 24 Jul 1996 to 25 Jul 1996 *************************************************** =END=