Retro Challenge 2017/04 Day21-23
Time for a better monitor!
My neck was taking a toll having the TV on top of my desk. There is no room to have it lower so another option was needed. I had an under the counter LCD TV/DVD in the kitchen that we no longer used so I re-purposed it to the computer room.. It is awesome! The screen is sharp and clear. The position is perfect! I am very pleased with this change!
The disk copying was not going well. In desperation I tried changing my 1541 to the "UI-" setting and instantly unreadable disks were coming over without any issues! The "UI-" speeds the drive up a bit to match a 1540 and it has made all the difference in the world! Now I can copy over entire disks to the SD2IEC with virtually no errors. The few files that seem to be problem files copy fine when I move them separately. I had to @0: save the files but there were only a few to copy.
I was able to get through all the disks and now on the SD2IED card I have a grand total of 753 files recovered from all of our tapes and floppies! I moved the files over to my desktop PC. I ran VICE and can play all the files on the emulator. I have been collecting PRG files for some time from the Internet and now they too are on the SD card. This gives me a grand total of 2836 files for my VIC-20 system. Now to play ALL the games!
Time for a better monitor!
My neck was taking a toll having the TV on top of my desk. There is no room to have it lower so another option was needed. I had an under the counter LCD TV/DVD in the kitchen that we no longer used so I re-purposed it to the computer room.. It is awesome! The screen is sharp and clear. The position is perfect! I am very pleased with this change!
The disk copying was not going well. In desperation I tried changing my 1541 to the "UI-" setting and instantly unreadable disks were coming over without any issues! The "UI-" speeds the drive up a bit to match a 1540 and it has made all the difference in the world! Now I can copy over entire disks to the SD2IEC with virtually no errors. The few files that seem to be problem files copy fine when I move them separately. I had to @0: save the files but there were only a few to copy.
I was able to get through all the disks and now on the SD2IED card I have a grand total of 753 files recovered from all of our tapes and floppies! I moved the files over to my desktop PC. I ran VICE and can play all the files on the emulator. I have been collecting PRG files for some time from the Internet and now they too are on the SD card. This gives me a grand total of 2836 files for my VIC-20 system. Now to play ALL the games!
Sounds like some of the diskettes were originally written using a 1540 drive? Good idea UI!
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