I'm an Apple II veteran, and have used Apple II System Utilities at one point or another. I'm wondering, did Commodore 64 also have a System Utilities disk for, say, copying files from one disk to another, duplicating and formatting disks, etc.?
I'm an Apple II veteran, and have used Apple II System Utilities at one point or another. I'm wondering, did Commodore 64 also have a System Utilities disk for, say, copying files from one disk to another, duplicating and formatting disks, etc.?
Your Name wrote on 28. March 2016:
In article <d5b27ba3-0938-4e0f-8661-0adfa060aabc@googlegroups.com>,
Brandon Taylor <bt610490@gmail.com> wrote:
I'm an Apple II veteran, and have used Apple II System Utilities at one
point or another. I'm wondering, did Commodore 64 also have a System
Utilities disk for, say, copying files from one disk to another,
duplicating and formatting disks, etc.?
Yep, numerous third-party applications for doing all sorts of things.
I seem to remember many of them were from the cracker scene. ;-)
At some point a pal had two 1541s and it was then possible to use one of
the disk copy programs (was it called "Nibbler Copy"?) and copy one disk
to the other in under 20 seconds without the need of swapping disks.
Ah, I found one called "Turbo Nibbler" in my collection from 1983. It's described here <http://remotecpu.com/downloads/download/24-disk-copiers/177-turbo-nibb ler-v22.html>.
In article <d5b27ba3-0938-4e0f-8661-0adfa060aabc@googlegroups.com>,
Brandon Taylor <bt610490@gmail.com> wrote:
I'm an Apple II veteran, and have used Apple II System Utilities at one point
or another. I'm wondering, did Commodore 64 also have a System Utilities disk
for, say, copying files from one disk to another, duplicating and formatting >> disks, etc.?
Yep, numerous third-party applications for doing all sorts of things.
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