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  • Commodore 64 "System Utilities"?

    From Brandon Taylor@21:1/5 to All on Mon Mar 28 14:57:42 2016
    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.?

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  • From Your Name@21:1/5 to Brandon Taylor on Tue Mar 29 12:14:52 2016
    In article <[email protected]>,
    Brandon Taylor <[email protected]> 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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  • From Robert Roland@21:1/5 to [email protected] on Tue Mar 29 18:50:18 2016
    On Mon, 28 Mar 2016 14:57:42 -0700 (PDT), Brandon Taylor
    <[email protected]> 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.?

    My 1541 drive came with a test/demo disk. It contains a program that
    can copy files from one drive to another. It also contains a DOS wedge
    and a couple of test programs.

    These programs were not really useful, since third party programs are
    abundant and perform much better.
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    RoRo

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  • From Your Name@21:1/5 to [email protected] on Wed Mar 30 12:12:06 2016
    In article <[email protected]>, Andreas Kohlbach <[email protected]> wrote:
    Your Name wrote on 28. March 2016:
    In article <[email protected]>,
    Brandon Taylor <[email protected]> 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>.

    Some were "cracker" group programs. Some were commercially sold
    programs. There were also the commercially sold freeze cartridges that
    could dump memory content to disk (or tape) and that could be reloaded
    without needing the cartridge.

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  • From Andreas Kohlbach@21:1/5 to Your Name on Tue Mar 29 16:27:58 2016
    Your Name wrote on 28. March 2016:

    In article <[email protected]>,
    Brandon Taylor <[email protected]> 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-nibbler-v22.html>.
    --
    Andreas

    I use a Unix based operating system, which means I get laid almost as often
    as I have to reboot my computer.

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