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Jan 27, '08 12:00 AM
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Changing the drive number on a Commodore 1541 drive... I have not had to do this in awhile.

Observe the jumper "1" near the center of the frame, with the connecting lead scratched out. This makes this a drive "9" -- reconnecting this with a bead of solder will make it an "8" again, which is what the C64 expects.

There are two jumpers that control drive number, and it works like this, if I remember right:

8 - 1 1
9 - 1 0
10- 0 1
11- 0 0

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jvon wrote on Jan 27, edited on Jan 27

In this image we can see many components that have manufacture dates in 1984.

nickgerman wrote on Jan 27

that's a TOTALLY bitchin mod!!!

jvon wrote on Jan 27

Yep well now you know how to switch it back if you want. :)

nickgerman wrote on Jan 27

for me those pics arelike seeing my grade school sweetheart again

blackaliss wrote on Jan 27

oi vey

jvon wrote on Jan 27

Did you know the lead hardware engineer for the C128 is on Multiply? He replied to one of my posts and I about fell over.

nickgerman wrote on Jan 27

wow.. who is he.
that's cool as hell

jvon wrote on Jan 27

Bil Herd. And last time I mentioned him, he popped up. :)

mellybrelly wrote on Jan 27

I love that I understand nothing about this post. It makes me kind of happy.

jvon wrote on Jan 27

You shouldn't. It involves doing stuff to 25 year old computers that hardly anyone knew how to do even when they were new.

nickgerman wrote on Jan 27

that was part of the magic of the c-64. now i gotta find a way to put zaxxon onto a 5 1/4 floppy.
i believe that was the first ever 3-d flight simulator.

jvon wrote on Jan 27

You can buy a cable to hook the 1541 up to a computer with a parallel cable. That's how I was moving stuff onto floppies.

Look around on ebay, there is a guy that sells commodore-related cables. He has everything. There's even one that converts c64 to s-video. :) (Had to get one of those out of sheer perversity.)

inmytree2003 wrote on Feb 10

Man, I had two or three of those machines growing up. Best computer ever..and easiest to hack games on.

jvon wrote on Feb 10

They really were great at the time. Still impressive feats of engineering given the technology available then.

inmytree2003 wrote on Feb 10

They are still somewhat popular... esp. with the Demoscene crowd.

I loved the SID chip in those things. I'm thinking about getting a SID chip modular synth box to toy with.

jvon wrote on Feb 10

Well I still have an operating C64 and two working C128s (which can run in C64-compatible mode). I can't say I use them often though. :)

blackaliss wrote on Feb 10

I am surrounded by geeks.

nickgerman wrote on Feb 24

http://www.thinkgeek.com/images/products/front/i_adore_my_64.jpg

jvon wrote on Feb 24

Nice. :)

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