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3.5" The Ultimate Drive TIB PLC DD-001

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Hi all can anyone shed any light/info on this drive and the commands it uses.

Have any posters on here ever used one or maybe still do?

I have tried to find out via the web but to no avail!
 
Well, I guess the question is, is it for the C64 or Amiga? Is it an IEC bus, or something else? Maybe a picture?
 
barythrin that's one of the few things I have found on the Web, it gives a good insight into the drive but no hints on other than load "*",9 . I have opened up the case and inside is a citizen osdc-29c the same as in my cumana amiga drive. Funnily enough it has the same case.
 
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Can you dump the contents of the eprom in the cartridge itself using the c64?

The actual Eprom is a 2764 which I can read via my willem programmer but it has been soldered in place,
I think due to height restrictions in the cartridge. So I am looking for an easier option than de soldering
reading the rom and then re soldering to the board. I think it starts at $8000 in memory.
 
I'm also curious about this drive. Dumping the rom would be a good start for sure. Any good machine language monitor would be able to save the eprom to disk, or even a little BASIC program to peek the rom and write to a file.

Also identifying the floppy disk controller chip would aid in figuring out the operation. Perhaps the board can be reverse-engineered and a schematic made from it! ;-)

Steve
 
Pet Rescue said:
Hi all can anyone shed any light/info on this drive and the commands it uses.

Have any posters on here ever used one or maybe still do?
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I saw one N.I.B. about 11 years ago at the Trading Post computer store in England. The Trading Post had Commodore software and hardware for sale, and that's where I saw the disk drive. I passed on it, because though it was supposed to be faster at loading/saving, I thought it was not very compatible.

The Trading Post out-of-business and sold its stock to AmigaKit,
Robert Bernardo
Fresno Commodore User Group
http://videocam.net.au/fcug
The Other Group of Amigoids
http://www.calweb.com/~rabel1/
Southern California Commodore & Amiga Network
http://www.sccaners.org
 
RobertB said:
I saw one N.I.B. about 11 years ago at the Trading Post computer store in England. The Trading Post had Commodore software and hardware for sale, and that's where I saw the disk drive. I passed on it, because though it was supposed to be faster at loading/saving, I thought it was not very compatible.

The Trading Post out-of-business and sold its stock to AmigaKit,
Robert Bernardo
Fresno Commodore User Group


http://videocam.net.au/fcug
The Other Group of Amigoids
http://www.calweb.com/~rabel1/
Southern California Commodore & Amiga Network
http://www.sccaners.org
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Robert that seems to be the general feeling I'm getting about this drive, it seems to be fast but not supported.
So I'm not really sure how it would get used unless you can transfer games onto the disks!
I have found that it has limited uses with a PC where you can save text from the c64 and use it on a PC.
Interesting you say it sold it's stock to amigakit as it has the same drive as the Cumana cax 354 used with the amiga.
 
The IBM disk format would be handy for transferring files, and the fact it stores 720K would be a benefit for people running a BBS or something that needed fast storage. Otherwise, not good at all for copy protected programs, or programs expecting to see compatibility with CBM-DOS drives. Depends on your needs I guess.

Steve
 
sjgray said:
The IBM disk format would be handy for transferring files, and the fact it stores 720K would be a benefit for people running a BBS or something that needed fast storage. Otherwise, not good at all for copy protected programs, or programs expecting to see compatibility with CBM-DOS drives. Depends on your needs I guess.

Steve
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Steve would it have been used on word processing mainly and data bases if you had a c64 at home and an IBM at work, back in the day!!
 
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