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- YOUR HOME TOWER NEWS
-
- By Dave Moorman
-
-
- Now more than ever, you NEED a
- CD-ROM on your C-64/128! Great
- collections are coming out from all
- around the world. A SCSI CD-ROM
- connected to a CMD Hard drive is good.
- And the LOADSTAR Home Tower is also
- excellent!
-
- Next month we will round up the
- many CD-ROMs available for C= people.
- But for this month, we will look at
- the 64HDriver browser that comes with
- your LS Home Tower.
-
-
- The browser that comes with Your
- Home Tower can easily copy material
- anywhere you want. This month, we will
- look at various copying techniques.
-
- Getting 1581 disks onto and off of
- the hard drive is a snap, since the
- Home Tower has 1581Copy built right
- in. As with all copying, you must have
- at least one external drive on your
- serial chain. The rest is easy.
-
-
- [1581 > D81]
-
- 1. Move through the Source Menu
- until you are in the MS-DOS directory
- where you want to put the D81 file.
-
- 2. Insert the 1581 disk into the
- 3.5 inch drive on the Tower.
-
- 3. Choose <1581> from the command
- menu.
-
- 4. Choose <1581 > D81>
-
- 5. Type in the filename for your
- D81 file. (Limit of 8 characters. Do
- [not] include the ".d81". That is done
- for you.)
-
- 6. In less than 2 minutes, the
- Source Menu will be redisplayed with
- the new D81 file present.
-
-
- [D81 > 1581]
-
- 1. Move through the Source Menu
- until the menu cursor is on the D81
- file you want to copy to a 1581 disk.
-
- 2. Put a blank DD/DS 3.5 inch disk
- in the Tower's 3.5 inch drive.
-
- 3. Choose <1581> from the command
- menu.
-
- 4. Choose <D81 > 1581>. In about 2
- minutes, your 1581 disk will be ready.
-
-
- [1541/1571 copies]
-
- The Tower does not have a
- whole-disk copier for 5.25 inch disks.
- You will need to copy all the files
- for disk to disk.
-
- [1541/1571 > D64/D71]
-
- 1. Move to the MS-DOS directory
- where you want the disk image file.
-
- 2. Choose <Make C= Img> from the
- command menu. Choose the desired
- format:
-
- D64 -- 1541
- D71 -- 1571
- D81 -- 1581
-
- and type in the file name. (limit of
- 8 characters.)Do not add the ".d??"
- extension.)
-
- 3. Choose <Swap Sc<>Tg> from the
- command menu. Move into the disk image
- or disk you want to copy.
-
- 4. Mark all the files you want to
- copy. (Press <C=-A> to mark All
- files).
-
- 5. Choose <Copy> from the command
- menu, and press <Y>. You will hear
- your Tower click off each disk block.
-
-
- [Copying Disk Images]
-
- The disk images are MS-DOS files,
- so can be moved very quickly. Choose
- the target MS-DOS directory, swap
- source with target, then put the menu
- cursor on the desired source disk
- image file. Choose <Copy> and press
- <Y>. In no time at all, the copy is
- finished.
-
- When you create a new disk image,
- a blank image is copied to the source
- menu and renamed. It is that easy.
-
-
- Don't forget -- this column is for
- you. If you have any questions or
- suggestions, send them in.
-
- DMM
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