On 03/28/2016 08:12 PM, Your Name wrote:
> In article ,
> Brandon Taylor  wrote:
>>
>> I'm an Apple II veteran, and have used Apple II System Utilities at one
point
>> or another. I'm wondering, did Commodore 64 also have a System Utilities
disk
>> for, say, copying files from one disk to another, duplicating and formatting
>> disks, etc.?
>
> There's numerous utility applications for doing such things. Like the
> Apple II software, it was all third-party.
>

Hello, and I acquired my first C-64 in 1983.  There was a raft of disk
copy utilities produced for the C-64 and I used a lot of them.  Jim
Butterfield wrote an early one in BASIC (but it required 2 1541's) that
was included on the demo disk provided with the 1541 disk drive.  The
best for 1541 fast disk formatting, speed of copy and ease of use IMO
was "Fast Hack'em" from Basement Boys Software.  Other disk utilities
such as "Maverick V4/V5" from Kracker Jax allowed, among many other
things, unprotected disk back-ups of most commercial software including
those employing sophisticated (at the time) disk protection techniques.
  (A few commercial software releases required the installation of an
additional circuit board within the 1541 drive in order to create a
backup).  Sincerely,
--
J. B. Wood             e-mail: arl_123234@hotmail.com

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