I do have an old PC in the attic and I'm pretty sure it does have a parallel port, but I haven't used it in ages. I'll bring it down and try to fire it up.
It goes thru all the various types of cables for transfer and how to make them. It's a good starting point for how you'd like to go.
Have you considered a pi1541? Absolutely a fantastic piece of kit!
Easy to build., super reliable. With a 2 GB SD card installed one could have just about the entire Commodore software suite.
Just put your software on the SD card from a PC and the put it into the Pi1541. It will read disk images and tape files.
With the correct configuration it can become various Commodore disk drive models.
Re: directly connecting C64 to PC
Posted: Thu Feb 18, 2021 7:51 pm
by Banana
Thanks, that sounds interesting. I'll look into the Pi1541 more.
Thanks. I'm going ahead with the purchase of the Pi1541, it looks like it can solve a lot of my problems.
Re: directly connecting C64 to PC
Posted: Sun Feb 21, 2021 10:24 am
by banman
Hi Banana,
Have a look at this great video on using the pi 1541 on the Pi Zero and Pi one.
I found it very useful for setting up the Pi Zero. I think you can purchase a bare bones Pi Zero for about $10 AUD not including shipping costs.
The Pi Zero will need to be overclocked approximately 10%. It will void the manufacturers warranty.
I will say I haven't had any issues with this mod. I have had it running on several high 30C days without any heat sinks inside an enclosure. No issues.
TIP: having an oled display screen helps heaps in setting up the Pi 1541. I had heaps of trouble because I wasn't sure where I was when navigating in the SD card directory structure.