| How to copy your favorite CPC 3" Disks to AMIGA ?
1) Send PARDISC.BAS to your old CPC (on side 0 of disk) EMUCPC 0.6 is able to emulate the TAPE SAVE command with help of Amiga audio hardware. You just need to make a cable from any 'headphone' output of amiga (like hifi amplifier) to the CPC tape connector. Amiga audio -------------------------> CPC Tape in (pin 4) GND -------------------------> CPC Tape GND (pin 2) The CPC Tape connector look like: \_/ (3) O O (1) (CPC 664 rear view) (5) O O (4) O (2) 1 & 3 -> TAPE motor control relay 2 GND 4 Tape in 5 Tape out To send 'PARDISC.BAS' to your old CPC: on old CPC type: |TAPE LOAD"" -> Your old CPC is waiting for somthing from a tape now on EMUCPC 0.6 type: LOAD"PARDISC" |TAPE SAVE"PARDISC" -> EMUCPC is going to send the file to your old CPC via audio ! If it doesn't work, check: - the output level of your 'headphone' is too low or too high. - your Amiga is too fast, so disable some cpu cache to slow the EMUCPC emulator - You can rewrite whole 'PARDISC.BAS' program by hand ! :-( 2) Make a special parallel cable In order to copy a CPC 3" disk to Amiga, you neen to connect your old CPC this your Amiga via parallel ports. This cable look like this (9 wires): CPC (PRINTER PORT) AMIGA (PRINTER PORT) PIN SIGNAL SIGNAL PIN (1) STROBE --------------------> BUSY (11) (2) D0 ------------------------> D0 (2) (3) D1 ------------------------> D1 (3) (4) D2 ------------------------> D2 (4) (5) D3 ------------------------> D3 (5) (6) D4 ------------------------> D4 (6) (7) D5 ------------------------> D5 (7) (11) BUSY <---------------------- D7 (9) (14) GND -----------------------> GND (25) The CPC printer connector is a 2x17 pin connector, the CPC 664 rear wiew is: 17 16 15 14 13 12 11 10 9 8 7 6 5 4 3 2 1 - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - 34 33 32 31 30 29 28 27 26 25 24 23 22 21 20 19 18 The Amiga printer connector is a DB25 connector, the Amiga rear view is: 13 12 11 10 9 8 7 6 5 4 3 2 1 [] [] [] [] [] [] [] [] [] [] [] [] [] [] [] [] [] [] [] [] [] [] [] [] [] 25 24 23 22 21 20 19 18 17 16 15 14 3) Use some software - On your Amiga run 'ParLoadCPCDisc' - On your CPC run 'PARDISC.BAS' That's all ? |