>  RA>That's been tried in the past, due to all the problems people have with
 >  RA>X1451. He never answers.

 >  Bummer :(  Another choice - the bloke who wrote the c64
 > emulator for the messy-dos machines apparently also wrote a
 > program to talk to the 1541 from the pc. I just hope this isnt
 > the same guy who wrote x1541 (: (I dont think so but not sure..)

Haven't seen that one, and I thought I had *everything* related to CBM-MSDOS!  :)

 >  RA>Then you're starting to get into writing an operating system at the PC
 >  RA>end - we just want something to do simple decoding of file requests
 >  RA>from the 64 (at least initially).

 >  Ah I see. Well you've got to crawl before you can run so thats
 > a good start (: Hows the hardware going? You opting for the
 > rs232-64 serial converter or a parrallel version?

Another person on the internet is opting to use the X1541 cable (which is
parallel), but I'm not sure about programming the PC to use the parallel
port.  Also, since we want to use an Amiga (or anything else with disk
space! :) we might chose serial.

 >  RA>:)  After all, a cheap PC with hard disk is far cheaper than a CMD HD!

 >  Very true, but CMD still make great 64 products (:

I agree, and hopefully I'll have an HD in a few weeks!  :)

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