Hi there,

If anyone out there has made up a cable for transferring data from a 1541
diskette drive to an IBM PC parallel port according to the wiring diagram
provided by the 1541.EXE file included in the archive C64EMU.ARJ (It is in
the IBM MISCELLANEOUS FILES area on 500CC Formula One BBS and is also on
Way Out West BBS) I would be grateful to hear from you as to whether your
cable worked or not.

I have soldered together my own following the diagram but when I run the
1541.EXE program which allows you to make transfers it hangs when I try to
seek from the 1541 drive. I am not very experienced in electronics and
wiring and was hoping that one of you more
experienced users might be able to help me out. I have posted this message
in this echo because I remember reading about someone having succeeded in
making this cable several months back, and I recall another message where
someone noted that data transfers could more easily be made on a C128 which
has a parallel port at back.

If anyone has made the cable I am referring to and has made
successful transfers with it from a 1541 to PC parallel port, I would be
very, very interested in hearing from you. Basically I want to get my hands
on a working cable and am willing to pay someone experienced in wiring to
make one up for me, but preferably someone who has already wired up their
own cable which they have used themselves and know to be working.

Alternatively, I would really like to hear from anyone out there who knows
how to transfer data from a C128 parallel port to an IBM PC clone parallel
port. Do you connect the 1541 to the C128 and a parallel cable from C128
parallel port to IBM PC clone parallel port, then what? Is software needed,
if so what? Or do you just use commands, if so what are they?

If anyone out there is willing to lend me a cable to use that would also be cool.:-)

Finally, can anyone tell me if special software is needed to access the
Commodore Pursuit BBS using an IBM PC clone. I tried it once before and it
didn't seem to connect. I download TBBS software or something like that and
tried it but I never got there. How is it done?

I would be very grateful for any responses on these problems.

Benjamin.

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