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    From Chris Costanzo@1:266/75 to All on Fri Sep 28 08:53:24 2018
    Hi All,

    I know there are SD2IEC adapters, Pi1541's etc.
    But are there any peices of hardware that can emulate a hard drive on a 128D?



    Hugs and Kisses,
    Chris AKA Raster
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  • From omnicron10@3:770/3 to Chris Costanzo on Sat Sep 29 18:07:57 2018
    On Friday, September 28, 2018 at 8:23:49 AM UTC-7, Chris Costanzo wrote:
    Hi All,

    I know there are SD2IEC adapters, Pi1541's etc.
    But are there any peices of hardware that can emulate a hard drive on a 128D?



    Hugs and Kisses,
    Chris AKA Raster

    Any of them that work on the C64 work on the C128. The only difference would be speed related burst mode support. The C128 can support a burst mode. If you have jiffydos and the HD item supports jiffydos then that would work well too.

    There is a way to CMDHD emulation and uSD cards on SD2IEC devices with burstmode and jiffydos support I believe.
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  • From Martin Brunner@3:770/3 to Chris Costanzo on Mon Oct 1 00:31:22 2018
    Chris Costanzo schrieb:
    But are there any peices of hardware that can emulate a hard drive on a 128D?

    It is possible to emulate a 1541 disk drive with the 1541-Ultimate for example.

    You might find it useful to switch the internal drive off. If you don't want to solder a switch, you can also use this tool: https://csdb.dk/release/?id=160842

    But if you want to emulate a 1571, I don't know of any solution that supports D71 disk drives and burst mode. Some people said it might be possible to add it to the firmware of the 1541-U (which is open source), but it hasn't been done yet.
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