Loading Disk ROMs

ArmakuniVsKunitoki · New Member Joined: 22 Jun 2011 Posts: 2 GB64-Points: 2

Hi there

I'm new to this forum but I have a question about downloading and playing the disc images from GB64. When I try to load them up with WINVice, some of them work OK, but the majority don't load up. It's very hit and miss for me and none of the downloads I try are marked as bugged or broken. I was wondering if anyone knew if there was maybe some configuration or something I have to enable in the settings. I'm not familiar with C64 disk drives, as I only ever owned a datasette so I have been preferring to play tape roms, as these have been 99% successful. But I'd like to be able to play disks too. Any help would be appreciated.

Mayhem · Posted: Fri Jun 24, 2011 1:23 pm Post subject:

Enable "True Drive Emulation" in Vice and try them again.
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ArmakuniVsKunitoki · New Member Joined: 22 Jun 2011 Posts: 2 GB64-Points: 2

Thank you for the response Mr Mayhem, I managed to sort it, The drive emulation was always set to true. I had Vice 2.0 so tried to see if there was a newer version (which there was) so I got 2.2, and the disks worked just fine. Just for curiosity I scrolled down the configuration text document and compared it to my old one, it turns out there were two little culprits to my problem. IEC device 8=0 was 1 and Drive8Type = 1541 was 0. Still no idea what this means but I'm up and running WOOHOO!

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Hidron · Posted: Fri Jun 24, 2011 3:51 pm Post subject:

Glad to hear you got things working. There is actually a 2.3 version of Vice now though. I tried to link, but apparantly I haven't posted enough to allow it.

Mayhem · Posted: Sun Jun 26, 2011 4:24 pm Post subject:

The latter I assume means that the emulator was thinking device 8 was something other than a 1541 disk drive...
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