
PC/LPT-IEEE488
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This is the soft- and hardware for a simple IEEE488 interface
at the PC printer port.

WARNING: This stuff comes completely without warranty.
	 I urge you not to use it. It only describes how I did it.
         It has been tested on my own hardware only and cannot
	 be guaranteed to work with your hardware at all.
	 If you break your computer, render it useless or cause 
	 other damage by reading or using the information herein, 
	 you and only you yourself are responsible.

WARNING: If you think a soldering iron is for your clothes,
	 get your fingers off this stuff!

This package contains:

- hardware/ 
  This directory contains the schematics of the adapter and the
  description. It has been tested on an old TTL-chip LPT adapter
  for the PC only.

- src/
  This directory contains server software for Linux (2.0 and 2.1) to 
  emulate a simple disk drive on a given directory. 
  It uses some of the VICE emulator code to emulate the
  disk drives for a unix directory and/or a D64 disk image file.
  Please read the README file in this directory before using it!

- old/
  This directory contains test software for Linux (2.0 and 2.1) to 
  emulate a simple disk drive on a given directory. This stuff 
  is _really_ old. I used it in my old IEEE interface for the Atari 
  ST that I built some years ago. I hacked it for the PC LPT interface, 
  and it is really ugly code. 
  Please read the README file in this directory before using it!

- dir/
  A directory with some PET/C64 programs.
  iec14		BASIC implementation of the PET IEEE routines.
		I used it to test the interface
  disk2file	Dump a CBM disk to a file, preferably
		on the PC. Produces .d64 files with a VC1541,
		but should also dumps most other CBM disks
		(1571, 1581, 8250...) Runs on PET and C64
  file2disk	restore a .d64/dump file (from the PC) to a 
		VC1541/VC1581/... back. Runs on PET and C64
		You should restore the dump file to the same type
		of drive only.
  

19. Sept. 1998
A. Fachat (a.fachat@physik.tu-chemnitz.de>


