I decided to do the the 1581 next.

I am working on adding more drive number selection switches. I am pretty much done with the 1571D drive, I just need to solder the wire to the jumper pad on the motherboard.



The other 1571 is next. If I have time today, which I should, I will add a second switch to the 1581. I located the DPST rocker switches I was looking for to add power switches for the drives, but I am waiting on some more connectors to do this. When I do add the power switches, I will only do the one regular 1571 and 1581 for now. The uIEC already has a (toggle) shutoff switch as shown above. The 1571D is integrated into the motherboard and can't be truly shut off. I could disable it by breaking the ATN line, but I don't really see a point at this time since it would still be powered. If I ever see a need, I will add a switch to disable the 1571D at that time.

So far only 80x50 is working with the Quickscan. I am testing with a stock 64 atm.



Some life! Soon I should be getting much better images

@Valentin

Thanks for the compliment

Yes, you can read 1581 disks under Windows with certain tools like Omniflop.

http://www.shlock.co.uk/Utils/OmniFl...iFlop_Overview

I don't bother with that that, since I have a uIEC I can just move the compact flash card between the PC running Windows or Linux and the 128T. Much more convenient.

Another short update to say 1581 integrating is complete!




The switch is for 8/10 drive number selection.




There is where the 1581 controller board is mounted. Of course, it is being powered by the ATX power supply!

That's it for tonight, not feeling all that hot. I will do some more tomorrow with any luck..

Yes, CP/M works very nicely on this setup. Actually, it will run directly from the uIEC (compact flash card).

I don't have a really good answer for you about a replacement Commodore 8bit power supply that isn't do it yourself. There is one seller on eBay who is selling "heavy duty" commodore power supplies, but I seriously doubt it has 9VAC at all. Most of the time when people do home conversions, they just put 5VDC in place of the 9VAC. I don't like that.

No problem :-)

This type of setup is not exclusive to Commodore 128 of course, though my setup does it well. This would be a possible solution for very low end Amigas, especially if you have a Linux box handy. A stock A500 or A1000 with a null modem cable and terminal program such as A-term could do this. For speed, you would probably want at least a better serial port card though. The stock Amiga serial port is pretty slow, especially on older OCS/ECS models.

@save2600

I'm sorry for the slow reply, been busy :-/

This picture is taken using the 128 running Desterm128 and browsing this very blog.



Here is another picture, this one taking a pic of me posting this very message :-)



I am logged into my local Linux box and running 'elinks' for a web browser. For more about Elinks capabilities see below:

http://elinks.or.cz

It supports almost full HTML4.0, without CSS.

I've actually done that beforeit quite a b, but I have not tried since the AO upgrade. Truth be told, AO doesn't look good with Lynx! Hopefully I can give it a try with the stand alone Singular Browser (128/VDC) soon, but the web page to download it was down as of last night :-( I will probably also play with some of the other browsers. I still haven't tried out The Wave.