The odd thing is the VIC Floppy, the 1541, 1571, 1581, and the 1541-II all had their own operating system onboard it really was like having a separate computer to deal with disk management. This of course is a throw back to the IEEE-488 days and the PET based systems like the CBM 2002 and the 4040 Dual Floppy Drive unit.
@cinder5832 Yep. In fact, a popular disk copy program only needed for the drives to be connected to the computer to load the software into the drive RAM. After that, the C=64/128 could be disconnected from the drives, and they would happily copy a disk from the source drive to the destination drive.
@tibianus123 You only had to read the first 3 words of the description. 1 of those words was "The", that's like half of a word. So, 2.5 words. But instead, you decided it was someone else's responsibility to find out the answer for you.
Not to mention that it says COMMODORE in big letters on the floppy drive.
@kylep2 many of youtube users ask stupid questions, use bad words even call offensive their parents so i just didn't noticed it lol and you must be this more intelligent lol.. go to your ,,life"
Man thats hillarious I remember mine doing that exact same noise, that was the noise that you never wanted to hear. Usually happened to my Below the Root game, when I got to Sky Grund!
@TheIndustrialphreak Yeah, no. I had my old 1541 apart one time (installing the JiffyDOS ROM) and thought to see what 1541 Music Machine was actually doing.
Aside from the head knock, nothing moves.
For awhile, I was playing "Bicycle Built For Two" a few times a week for incredulous friends and for my own amusement. The drive was used when I bought it, and when I replaced it with a 1571 drive (and eventually added a 1541-C and a pair of 1581 drives), that old 1541 was as good as new.
Oh no! I still have my Commie and the drive in a box in the garage. I remember that crap! there were a few programs that made your drive make strange music and such. This brings back good memories....
Yeah this is not fake...anyone that calls this fake never had a C64 for sure..I still have fond memories of drive music...I was so amazed the first time I heard it! :-)
I remember a friend of mine showing me this program on *my* Commodore. Horrified, I asked "This probably isn't good for the disk drive is it?" and he replied "no, probably not." Freakin' dick!
@BilisNegra It's not fake, I did it with my 1541 as well, it is done by literally banging the head off the end stop at a fast speed, the faster the speed the higher the pitch etc. The down side was that you had to run a head re-alignment program afterwards as it knocked the head way out, which took ages! LOL
@tuckerch Way ahead of you. I had Epyx fast load. Still do as a matter of fact. But I have to agree with you on your assement of a C64 user. I stopped at Epyx fast load. Probably should have went ahead with the Warpspeed or better.... who knows.
@dsbiehl I had the 1st gen WarpSpeed, I sent a nice polite letter to the WarpSpeed people, listing the bugs I'd found and making a few suggestions. A few weeks later, I got a letter back from them, They were impressed with my detailed list of bugs, it seems. They wanted to know if I'd beta test the new ROM. I said yes. They sent me a ROM. I installed it. What an improvement that was.
I really liked WarpSpeed, because it had a C=128 mode. VERY rare at the time for utility cartridges.
@TeamRocketReviews Well, WarpSpeed is no longer in production, probably hasn't been for the better part of 20 years or more.
The V2 version had fastload & save routines for the 1541/41c/71/81 drives, a reset button & a switch to shut off the cartridge/128 mode (if one had it plugged into a stock 128) The ML monitor was first rate as was the disk wedge.
I would suggest setting up a search on eBay for a start, then googling for the diverse C=64/128 resources on the Internet.You might find one.
Don't forget planting and harvesting the yearly crops, painting the house, curing a disease and teaching a monkey to program in 6502 ASM! Still, have fond memories of the datacassette too. Got me by until I was able to afford the 1541.
@dsbiehl Kids are spoiled today. Those were classic games and graphics on the 64. Miss the old BBS days. I thought I was cool with my 2400 baud modem LOL then the pc came out with 56000. Had to upgrade to the Amiga, That machine cut down on the snack time in the kitchen!
@TimSDobson Haha, nice. Yes, the Amiga did cut down on the snack time in the kitchen and it also was the envy of friends...especially when you didn't have to dink around with config.sys and autoexec.bat in order to get a game to run and they did.
@TimSDobson Mind you, it was always a bitch when someone used the fucking kettle or flicked a particular light switch in the house resulting in the modem disconnecting :(
@dsbiehl Oh yes, it certainly was great and a hell of a lot better than not just making a snack and a drink but a 3 course dinner when loading from Cassette Tape.. lol :) I didn't mind the load times from Tape though, there was always nice loader music and the games were brilliant :), but of course, disk was always better :)
@blade004 Oh yes, how can I forget the tape. "Press Play on Tape" will forever be burned into my psyche as well as loader music. I had the tape experience for only a short time after getting my C64. Took me a few months to realize that the floppy drive was indeed a good investment..
Wow... this brings back some memories... We had a voice emulator for the C64 which had "Bicycle built for two" as one of the canned songs it came with. I can hear the creepy HAL-like computer voice now trying to sing LOL!
"There have been many floppy drives, you know. Many tried... but we think we FINALLY got it right. Today we're announcing iDrive - and I'd love to show it to you." - Steve Jobs unveiling the singing floppy drive
FYI, "1541 Music Machine" (as it was known in the US) is an homage to an event that took place in 1961, when an IBM computer was programed to actually SING "Bicycle Built For Two" at the Murray Hills Bell Labs.
soundwidgets(DOT)com/Daisy.mp3
is the actual output from that IBM, captured on recording tape and converted decades later to MP3.
20 some years later, that 1541 disk drive in the video had more raw computing power than that IBM machine at Bell Labs.
@albedoshader Because they actually told you how the stuff worked, like file format, tracks, sectors, and even gave you code to show you how to do certain things. Such magic is lost nowadays :(
@MasterMWL: Absolutely. Today every kid with a PS3 or an IPhone claims to know something about computers, just because they know how to navigate the UI or how to use a game controller. ;)
On the Amiga's I had a program that could adjust all values on the "trackdisk.device", and a program that could make the amiga floppydrive sing as well. But, not all drives tolerated such tampering, some drives could be destroyed when making music like that. I assume the 1541 is more sturdy. It's time my father pulls his C64 from the attic, the last it was used is 20 years ago.
@QwAdr0x256 Yes, but not from the Commodore. The 1541 drive has a CPU and a small amount of RAM used for the disk buffer. Advanced 64 programmers could write machine code on the 64 which sent a machine code program across the serial cable to run natively on the floppy drive itself. If you switched the computer off, the hard drive would continue to sing.
@FlipidusX The 64 drive, although old, is significantly more sophisticated than a PC floppy. It contains its own CPU, ROM, RAM and software and interface adaptor chip. The drive was capable of executing user designed programs which would run even if the host computer was switched off. Few people were capable of making programs like this though since none of these features are available through the OS.
@vapourmile: Despite the fact the drive itself used a plastic disc with a track zero landing zone similar in concept to a vinyl album and resembling those crappy phono discs in the pullstring toys... it worked, was cheap (it saved on a track zero switch) and that's all that mattered. The local CPU was the only cool thing about them :P
@vapourmile Well... not DIRECTLY through the OS. C64 BASIC 2.0 lacked the disk commands that PET BASIC did. You could still open a channel to the drive and send commands to it that way. One of my favorite programs was FastCopy. If you had two 1541 disk drives, all you had to do was configure the drives and then you could disconnect the C64, and the drives could be used to copy unprotected floppies. Great for making backups of all those programs you typed out of magazines. :)
@digivince At my old school around in the late 90's there where a computer virus infecting computers on BIOS level, making them singing "Für Elise" right after power on. (Some didn't sound too good tho).
At first it was kinda funny, but being unable to remove it and after a while over 600 computers did the same, it started to creep us out. Now that's "demonic". (Solution: Floppy-free computers)
That is funny. Hearing the 1541 make odd noises it doesn't typically make though always makes me cringe. Always thinking "Oh god, there goes another one. Now where the hell do I find a new one in this day and age?"
the floppy drive on the c64 used to scare the crap out of me when i was little, the red and green lights i had a bad dream about them once, and if it was green i died from gas poisoning! lol im so glad i didnt have this program as well because that would have tipped me over the edge ;-) well cool though!
i wonder if you could do the same for a windows CD Drive because that has signals that you can hear through the motherboard soundcard !!
I make music composed with or using Commodore computers myself. Click my name to hear some and in stereo.
Or take a look at my alternate channel ONLYGOODCOMMIE. There I showcase some more of my own music, Commodore 64 promo material and a short video I made on C64-PC networking.
Yup. It even had the same processor (MOS6502) as the VIC20 and ran the same instruction set on the VIC20/C64. Of course it didn't have as much ram, but you could definitely run your own code inside the drive using memory-write calls to an empty buffer and then asking the drive to execute the buffer.
awesome! i still have this for my c64 ^_^
CRYP77 1 week ago
I remember when my old computer broke and it sang a christmas song!
RaftMine 2 weeks ago
Can you send me the BASIC-Listing or the ASM-Program?
creeper283 3 weeks ago
Don't run it too often cause you'll ruin the drive. Those 1541's are hard to find these days.
Shintar66 4 weeks ago 2
DAISY!
jd52wtf 1 month ago
what's up with computers and Daisy Bell?
Bobofjudia 1 month ago
It's HAL 9000's inbred cousin!
MrCumstein 2 months ago 3
@cinder5832 wow
faxekondi4321 2 months ago
Daisy Daisy, tell me your answer true..
noahlankford1 3 months ago
yeah twas amazing....I had a programme that let the drive play 'my bonnie is over the ocean'
marsiozo 3 months ago
The odd thing is the VIC Floppy, the 1541, 1571, 1581, and the 1541-II all had their own operating system onboard it really was like having a separate computer to deal with disk management. This of course is a throw back to the IEEE-488 days and the PET based systems like the CBM 2002 and the 4040 Dual Floppy Drive unit.
gshicks 3 months ago
Commodore's got talent!
drkamilz 3 months ago
Please produce other commodore and amiga consoles!
Alexxxcompa 3 months ago
@cinder5832 Yep. In fact, a popular disk copy program only needed for the drives to be connected to the computer to load the software into the drive RAM. After that, the C=64/128 could be disconnected from the drives, and they would happily copy a disk from the source drive to the destination drive.
tuckerch 3 months ago
I used to have this program back in the day. if i remember correctly it is called 'drive music'
Pinman1973 3 months ago
Don't keep disks on top of the drive. It is bad for them.
smhanov 3 months ago
that is so friggin cool
coreybeaulieu666 4 months ago
atari?
tibianus123 4 months ago
@tibianus123 commodore 64
Nnstars 4 months ago
@tibianus123 You only had to read the first 3 words of the description. 1 of those words was "The", that's like half of a word. So, 2.5 words. But instead, you decided it was someone else's responsibility to find out the answer for you.
Not to mention that it says COMMODORE in big letters on the floppy drive.
kylep2 4 months ago
@kylep2 many of youtube users ask stupid questions, use bad words even call offensive their parents so i just didn't noticed it lol and you must be this more intelligent lol.. go to your ,,life"
tibianus123 4 months ago
@tibianus123 Because I can read it means I don't have a life? Go to euro-hell.
kylep2 4 months ago
@kylep2 suck my dick bitch i will ignore you now mother fucker ;]
tibianus123 4 months ago
Man thats hillarious I remember mine doing that exact same noise, that was the noise that you never wanted to hear. Usually happened to my Below the Root game, when I got to Sky Grund!
THEDUDE2117 4 months ago
Great, now get it to sing O Danny Boy!
darklinkthe2nd 5 months ago
yes, you do know your could be destroying your 1541 drive...
TheIndustrialphreak 5 months ago
@TheIndustrialphreak Yeah, no. I had my old 1541 apart one time (installing the JiffyDOS ROM) and thought to see what 1541 Music Machine was actually doing.
Aside from the head knock, nothing moves.
For awhile, I was playing "Bicycle Built For Two" a few times a week for incredulous friends and for my own amusement. The drive was used when I bought it, and when I replaced it with a 1571 drive (and eventually added a 1541-C and a pair of 1581 drives), that old 1541 was as good as new.
tuckerch 3 months ago
My jaw fucking dropped.
CompanionlikesDMGs 5 months ago
That's FRIGGIN' AWESOME!
therealgreatqball 5 months ago
@drbpony If that happens to your computer, it means you need a new one. *hint *hint
XxkoolloserxX 5 months ago
That's Daisy Bell. The first song ever to be "sung" by a computer. But how did you get your floppy drive to do that?
CamCam8771 5 months ago
@CamCam8771
I don't know if Daisy Bell was the first song. I had a program named Drive Sythesizer with another song.
vonGreifenfels 5 months ago
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CamCam8771 5 months ago
Now if it could sing "still alive"
startreking2007 6 months ago 30
@startreking2007
I have the sid for my c64 XD
optionen100 2 months ago
Installing iTunes, Please Wait...
JFarmer2011 6 months ago
Oh no! I still have my Commie and the drive in a box in the garage. I remember that crap! there were a few programs that made your drive make strange music and such. This brings back good memories....
BrainCreep 6 months ago
mine did that....fucking creepy when your sitting in a building all alone and its a quiet night.
weasel884 6 months ago
I played the star spangled banner with my 1571 drive....Fun memories.
brainfarth 6 months ago
Glad I had one with the lever on it. Sometimes you had to put the disk in just right on the one in the video.
rmikeyp73 6 months ago
how do you did that?
j1d22 6 months ago
Daisy Bell, how appropriate ;o)
goldenshowercap 6 months ago
Haha!
WindowsLover6767 7 months ago
Yeah this is not fake...anyone that calls this fake never had a C64 for sure..I still have fond memories of drive music...I was so amazed the first time I heard it! :-)
shaolin95 7 months ago
I remember a friend of mine showing me this program on *my* Commodore. Horrified, I asked "This probably isn't good for the disk drive is it?" and he replied "no, probably not." Freakin' dick!
Elricwulf 7 months ago
a bit cooler then a dial up modem, but this thing is older
foppa16 7 months ago
I had this program too! Thanks for the memories :)
bweatherley 7 months ago
Are there any program, which can do it with a modern 3,5" floppy (in a 90's modern laptop)
????????
DomeArmin 7 months ago
@drbpony Should this not be a fake, please explain how this can be done at all!!!
BilisNegra 7 months ago
@BilisNegra Use google. Someone re-composed Beethoven with floppy drives
godsadog 7 months ago
@BilisNegra It's not fake, I did it with my 1541 as well, it is done by literally banging the head off the end stop at a fast speed, the faster the speed the higher the pitch etc. The down side was that you had to run a head re-alignment program afterwards as it knocked the head way out, which took ages! LOL
wbcsneo 7 months ago
@wbcsneo I remember one time I had a 1541 that did not work to well to begin with and after running a drive music program it actually aligned it!
JeffAtariUser 6 months ago 2
@JeffAtariUser Headknock for the win!
tuckerch 3 months ago
HAL 9000 played that song :O
Qp0wer 7 months ago
That sound at 0:05 scared the shit out of me as a kid.
DeadRaymanWalking 8 months ago 2
My 1541 is the turning handle/newtronics type, but the handle is loose and floppies dont load. Can someone help me fix this?
TeamRocketReviews 8 months ago
Music to my ears I miss these old noises.
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1112Hades 8 months ago 2
@1112Hades
Me too.
Bluerooster100 8 months ago
Oh how I miss the floppy disk. I was able to hold up to 10 games (in most cases) on a single floppy.
I miss typing
LOAD "*', 8, 1
RUN
...and then being able to run to the kitchen, make a snack and drink to get back just in time for the game to be able to run.
dsbiehl 8 months ago 24
@dsbiehl Mate, one word: FastLoad!
The evolution of the C=64 owner:
I HATE this Datasette! It's too slow!
I have a disk drive! YAY!
I hate this drive!. It's too slow!
I have the EPYX FastLoad cartridge! YAY!
I HATE FastLoad! It's too slow saving a file!
I have WarpSpeed/SuperSnapShot/Final Cartridge! YAY!
I HATE this cartridge! It's tying up the Expansion Port!
Eventually, you wind up as I did. JiffyDOS, 'LBow two slot cartridge expander, with built in RESET button, REU & cartridge installed.
tuckerch 3 months ago
@tuckerch Way ahead of you. I had Epyx fast load. Still do as a matter of fact. But I have to agree with you on your assement of a C64 user. I stopped at Epyx fast load. Probably should have went ahead with the Warpspeed or better.... who knows.
Any way, your post made me giggle with nostalgia!
dsbiehl 3 months ago
@dsbiehl I had the 1st gen WarpSpeed, I sent a nice polite letter to the WarpSpeed people, listing the bugs I'd found and making a few suggestions. A few weeks later, I got a letter back from them, They were impressed with my detailed list of bugs, it seems. They wanted to know if I'd beta test the new ROM. I said yes. They sent me a ROM. I installed it. What an improvement that was.
I really liked WarpSpeed, because it had a C=128 mode. VERY rare at the time for utility cartridges.
tuckerch 3 months ago
@tuckerch Where do you get WarpSpeeds? Are they better than the stock Epyx FastLoad? Are they rare?
TeamRocketReviews 3 months ago
@TeamRocketReviews Well, WarpSpeed is no longer in production, probably hasn't been for the better part of 20 years or more.
The V2 version had fastload & save routines for the 1541/41c/71/81 drives, a reset button & a switch to shut off the cartridge/128 mode (if one had it plugged into a stock 128) The ML monitor was first rate as was the disk wedge.
I would suggest setting up a search on eBay for a start, then googling for the diverse C=64/128 resources on the Internet.You might find one.
tuckerch 3 months ago
@dsbiehl Unless you were loading off a datasette, in which case you had time to defrost and cook a turkey. ;)
donstratton 1 month ago 5
@donstratton True!
Don't forget planting and harvesting the yearly crops, painting the house, curing a disease and teaching a monkey to program in 6502 ASM! Still, have fond memories of the datacassette too. Got me by until I was able to afford the 1541.
dsbiehl 1 month ago
@dsbiehl Kids are spoiled today. Those were classic games and graphics on the 64. Miss the old BBS days. I thought I was cool with my 2400 baud modem LOL then the pc came out with 56000. Had to upgrade to the Amiga, That machine cut down on the snack time in the kitchen!
TimSDobson 2 weeks ago
@TimSDobson Haha, nice. Yes, the Amiga did cut down on the snack time in the kitchen and it also was the envy of friends...especially when you didn't have to dink around with config.sys and autoexec.bat in order to get a game to run and they did.
dsbiehl 2 weeks ago
@TimSDobson The BBS days were brilliant, ran one on an Amiga 2000 with a mate of mine, very special days :)
blade004 1 week ago
@TimSDobson Mind you, it was always a bitch when someone used the fucking kettle or flicked a particular light switch in the house resulting in the modem disconnecting :(
blade004 1 week ago
@dsbiehl Oh yes, it certainly was great and a hell of a lot better than not just making a snack and a drink but a 3 course dinner when loading from Cassette Tape.. lol :) I didn't mind the load times from Tape though, there was always nice loader music and the games were brilliant :), but of course, disk was always better :)
blade004 1 week ago
@blade004 Oh yes, how can I forget the tape. "Press Play on Tape" will forever be burned into my psyche as well as loader music. I had the tape experience for only a short time after getting my C64. Took me a few months to realize that the floppy drive was indeed a good investment..
dsbiehl 1 week ago
Nice 2001 reference.
cjkid14 8 months ago
this must be hal's grandfather
CaptinJangles 8 months ago
Did you put a magnet on it?
pplk23 8 months ago
I have this program! I always wondered how it could control the head stepper motor like that.
00Skyfox 9 months ago
thank god its obsolete i couldn't sleep at night if my computer did this on a whim
numbersevenforthewin 9 months ago
I still remember my sons as toddlers using our floppy disks as teething toys -- we lost several games that way!
DOSBoxMom 9 months ago
Is the Sid Chip broken?
slitor 9 months ago
Disk drives...they can walk, they can sing...soon...THEY WILL TAKE OVER THE WORLD!
slitor 9 months ago
ok...
How did you do that??
I had one of those and it never did...
That!!
orangie84 9 months ago
what are you doing dave...
kingkevo25 9 months ago
ah the good old days of the 5-1/4" floppy
automotiveDIY 9 months ago
I keep telling everyone. Terminator is not just a movie, its a warning.
bazfanv2 9 months ago
jejee this is music for my eyes :))
SuperVideoradio 9 months ago
Wow... this brings back some memories... We had a voice emulator for the C64 which had "Bicycle built for two" as one of the canned songs it came with. I can hear the creepy HAL-like computer voice now trying to sing LOL!
IRDiver3DI 9 months ago
dammet track 0 bad!!
pokemonaca 9 months ago
I think there was some german game that used this as an extra sound channel
Spiritplumber 10 months ago
That's so sweet :-)
monoamiga 10 months ago 2
Hmmm....I think its more of a hummm
dogdogaaaaa 11 months ago
"...on a bicycle built for two!"
Takeshi357 11 months ago
Scottish traditional floppy drive.
RudessSolo 11 months ago 5
I'm sorry dave, I can't let you do that.
gltovar 11 months ago 101
@gltovar im sorry Dave A: is not ready yet.
pokamonmaster1997 6 months ago
@gltovar nice
crazy88boss 6 months ago
Could this indicate the floppy drive has a problem, the time that you had made this video?
ClassicTVMan1981X 11 months ago
I miss you my dear friend. Together with your buddy the tapedeck.
BraddockNL 11 months ago 6
"There have been many floppy drives, you know. Many tried... but we think we FINALLY got it right. Today we're announcing iDrive - and I'd love to show it to you." - Steve Jobs unveiling the singing floppy drive
SystemError51 11 months ago 2
oh so your ipod plays music huh? WELL SO DOES FLOPPY DRIVE!
Commodore64nerd 11 months ago 47
could it play avenged sevenfold?
Wesley683 11 months ago
If you get this thing to play Brick House that would be EPIC!!
wymesei 11 months ago
HAL is that you?
garbidz 11 months ago 2
The fact that that was played by H.A.L. 9000 in Space Odyssey makes it even creepier.
LIGHTRONIX 11 months ago 7
FYI, "1541 Music Machine" (as it was known in the US) is an homage to an event that took place in 1961, when an IBM computer was programed to actually SING "Bicycle Built For Two" at the Murray Hills Bell Labs.
soundwidgets(DOT)com/Daisy.mp3
is the actual output from that IBM, captured on recording tape and converted decades later to MP3.
20 some years later, that 1541 disk drive in the video had more raw computing power than that IBM machine at Bell Labs.
tuckerch 11 months ago
Why would anyone do this?
Simple.
Because we could.
Anyone that asks why, well, they'll never understand why.
(C=128, 1541-II/1571/1581x2, 1084 monitor, 'lbow dual cartridge extender, 512K REU, JiffyDOS, SuperSnapShot, HandyScanner & PageFox DTP, Commodore Mouse and god knows what else in boxes in the closet.)
tuckerch 11 months ago 2
DAISY!!
daladek 11 months ago
holy crap its hal 9000
Qp0wer 1 year ago
I was afraid this would kill my expensive 1541, so i turned it off after a few seconds :)
knaagi 1 year ago
I still got a 5 1/2 inch HDD and some of the old school 5 inch floppys lying around. :P
Kage999 1 year ago
wow these thigs still exist. I think king tut used on of these when he was in school
balongaboy 1 year ago
I used to play that program.
datnhong 1 year ago
Back in the days, when Commodore floppy drives were actually standalone computers. Great memories coming back.
albedoshader 1 year ago
@albedoshader and they cost more than the friggin computer??!? good times.
BricktownBubba 1 year ago
@albedoshader The CPU of the floppy drive was almost the same as the CPU of the C64 ;-)
rudiangath 1 year ago
@rudiangath: I know. And the Floppy had a manual even thicker than the manual for the actual computer (C=64). Those were the days.....
albedoshader 1 year ago
@albedoshader Because they actually told you how the stuff worked, like file format, tracks, sectors, and even gave you code to show you how to do certain things. Such magic is lost nowadays :(
MasterMWL 11 months ago 3
@MasterMWL: Absolutely. Today every kid with a PS3 or an IPhone claims to know something about computers, just because they know how to navigate the UI or how to use a game controller. ;)
albedoshader 11 months ago 5
The drive will STILL play even after you shut the power off to the C64... :)
jci10 1 year ago
On the Amiga's I had a program that could adjust all values on the "trackdisk.device", and a program that could make the amiga floppydrive sing as well. But, not all drives tolerated such tampering, some drives could be destroyed when making music like that. I assume the 1541 is more sturdy. It's time my father pulls his C64 from the attic, the last it was used is 20 years ago.
flexyco 1 year ago
I AFRAID!
TheROYO11 1 year ago
@TheROYO11
WHAT YOU'RE AFRAID
I FIND IT CUUUUUTE!!!!
web1bastler 1 year ago
@web1bastler you never saw 2001 a space odyssey did you?
thatguyontheright1 1 year ago
how can this be possible? is this the motor inside controlled by assembler?
QwAdr0x256 1 year ago
@QwAdr0x256 Yes, but not from the Commodore. The 1541 drive has a CPU and a small amount of RAM used for the disk buffer. Advanced 64 programmers could write machine code on the 64 which sent a machine code program across the serial cable to run natively on the floppy drive itself. If you switched the computer off, the hard drive would continue to sing.
vapourmile 1 year ago
Holy shit!! I had that thing as a kid! I never knew it was a commodore.
HeadlessPony 1 year ago
hahahah awesome
kesomezo 1 year ago
how did you make this? is this possible with an pc floppy drive?
FlipidusX 1 year ago
@FlipidusX The 64 drive, although old, is significantly more sophisticated than a PC floppy. It contains its own CPU, ROM, RAM and software and interface adaptor chip. The drive was capable of executing user designed programs which would run even if the host computer was switched off. Few people were capable of making programs like this though since none of these features are available through the OS.
vapourmile 1 year ago
@vapourmile: Despite the fact the drive itself used a plastic disc with a track zero landing zone similar in concept to a vinyl album and resembling those crappy phono discs in the pullstring toys... it worked, was cheap (it saved on a track zero switch) and that's all that mattered. The local CPU was the only cool thing about them :P
RyuDarragh 11 months ago
@vapourmile Well... not DIRECTLY through the OS. C64 BASIC 2.0 lacked the disk commands that PET BASIC did. You could still open a channel to the drive and send commands to it that way. One of my favorite programs was FastCopy. If you had two 1541 disk drives, all you had to do was configure the drives and then you could disconnect the C64, and the drives could be used to copy unprotected floppies. Great for making backups of all those programs you typed out of magazines. :)
SpearM3064 1 week ago
If my computer stared making that noise, I would proceed to shit myself in fear and hide. That was fucking demonic.
digivince 1 year ago 150
@digivince I would be more afraid if it started playing "Still alive"
FelidaeMusic 10 months ago 8
@digivince When my computer starts singing I know I REALLY should go to sleep
Artoooooor 9 months ago
@digivince At my old school around in the late 90's there where a computer virus infecting computers on BIOS level, making them singing "Für Elise" right after power on. (Some didn't sound too good tho).
At first it was kinda funny, but being unable to remove it and after a while over 600 computers did the same, it started to creep us out. Now that's "demonic". (Solution: Floppy-free computers)
sysghost 7 months ago
trrrrrrrrrrrrr... lol
It sings as well
rtmnmk 1 year ago
god i miss computers like this
munfmunf4boisdinner 1 year ago
Al Smith would be proud; a little confused, but very proud.
basserase 1 year ago
@exposed97
"Bicycle Built for Two". Not really a church song.
gupsnot 1 year ago
wow...thats crazy
superellsworthbro 1 year ago
Haha thats great XD
Shaniirne 1 year ago
Cover the green LED with something,so only the red one is visible
I mean Hal had no green ones ))
cpucisc31415 1 year ago
Cover the green LED with something,so only the red one is visible
cpucisc31415 1 year ago
That is funny. Hearing the 1541 make odd noises it doesn't typically make though always makes me cringe. Always thinking "Oh god, there goes another one. Now where the hell do I find a new one in this day and age?"
robinkom 1 year ago
Thanks for posting that... as soon as I read the title, I knew exactly what it was going to play. Damn, I haven't heard that since, 1986-ish :)
boom3rang 1 year ago
Thanks for posting that... as soon as I read the title, I knew exactly what it was going to play. Damn, I haven't heard that since, 1986-ish :)
boom3rang 1 year ago
How old is de floppy disk?
RoxyXPPC 1 year ago
the floppy drive on the c64 used to scare the crap out of me when i was little, the red and green lights i had a bad dream about them once, and if it was green i died from gas poisoning! lol im so glad i didnt have this program as well because that would have tipped me over the edge ;-) well cool though!
i wonder if you could do the same for a windows CD Drive because that has signals that you can hear through the motherboard soundcard !!
kragle2008 1 year ago 2
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pokamonmaster1997 1 year ago
1541 ultimate can run this! \o/
fuckutube65 1 year ago
HEY I KNOW THAT SONG!!!
StickPeopleAndPuff 1 year ago
here in Holland that program was called ´drive music´ it works also on the 1541II but the commodore128D comes with better acoustic
SILS74R 1 year ago
Ok you did something to that drive to make it do that. That wasn't standard as I recall...
But why? I'm curious what was the motivation to do this?
I wonder if it can be done with the 'gate style' I had 2 1541's back in the day- one had the push button like yours... the other was a gate.
blackhawkfan54 1 year ago
How can I make my windows 98 do something like this?? plz tell me
jebug29 1 year ago
Do you have the commands for this program, or can you download it from somewhere and transfer to 5 1/4"?
MooCJStudios 1 year ago 2
lol. I had that program.
footrotdog 1 year ago
@footrotdog whats it called
greyhoundgill 9 months ago
I think it's eating your disk...
MorreskiBear 1 year ago
Daisy Bell? :D
danimusic077 1 year ago
hoooray proud hardware!!!! i lovedmy 128D
danksmokaz 1 year ago
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I make music composed with or using Commodore computers myself. Click my name to hear some and in stereo.
Or take a look at my alternate channel ONLYGOODCOMMIE. There I showcase some more of my own music, Commodore 64 promo material and a short video I made on C64-PC networking.
TheDustpile 1 year ago
also usefull for opening pod bay doors!
mashersmasher 1 year ago
I knew a guy who would buy these at Target, take them apart, put a brick in the case and take it back. Great stuff.
badderthanyou 1 year ago 64
@badderthanyou That probably made them work better. At least you wouldn't have to realign them once a week.
mmwilhelm 11 months ago
Great vid, I never knew the 1541 could be so musical. Thanks for sharing.
DLiberator78 1 year ago
just like the old 60's computer
ZILOGz80VIDEOS 1 year ago
So remember that demo.. lol
maxhall1 1 year ago
LOL. I so remember that from my CBM days. We used to have to repair so many 1541's because of that software. LOL.
vk4akp 1 year ago 3
i had one of these :D
Dooku64 1 year ago
cool vid. could you record the head bang sound it makes when there's a disk error?
procleus 1 year ago
Maybe you did need the chip with the 1541. I forget, but you didn't with the 1541C.
HaligonianType1 1 year ago
I had software that you could use to make the 1581, 1571, 1541, 1541c floppy drives play any sid file. Good times...
HaligonianType1 1 year ago 2
@HaligonianType1 - Wouldn't the drive need a SID chip in order to do that?
adric22 1 year ago
I'm afraid I cannot let you do that Dave.
Dave?
Can you hear me Dave?
TheEnglishHobo 1 year ago 3
C=64 FTW!!!! Seriously you guys. Is there nothing more awesome?!
thedarkener 1 year ago
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Yup. It even had the same processor (MOS6502) as the VIC20 and ran the same instruction set on the VIC20/C64. Of course it didn't have as much ram, but you could definitely run your own code inside the drive using memory-write calls to an empty buffer and then asking the drive to execute the buffer.
aaronsp777 1 year ago
I like it
KybernetikKollektiv 1 year ago
Can it sing.."I have a big floppy for you"..it's exactly 5 1/4 inches long..LOL
loco6607 1 year ago 2
@loco6607 Ooh, my floppy is 6 :)
isssssssce 1 year ago
@isssssssce lmao, mine is 8
madmax2069 1 year ago
That's so last century!