User guide

1541 Ultimate User Manual

http://www.1541ultimate.net/

Modes of operation

The 1541 Ultimate has two possible modes of operation.

Cartridge mode

In this mode the 1541 Ultimate is inserted into the cartridge port of your Commodore.

This is probably the most common way to use the board. To have access to the 1541

Ultimate’ emulated drives, you need to connect an IEC cable from your Commodore

computer to the 1541 Ultimate’ IEC port, just as you would connect a real 1541 drive. If

you don’t connect the cable, you still have the cartridge based functions at your disposal.

I advise to disable the direct SD-IEC support, since in this mode you can browse the SD

card through the middle freeze button, and it will cause less problems with other software

and hardware.

The keyboard shortcuts supported by the 1541 Ultimate’ User Interface in cartridge mode

are:

CRSR UP/DOWN Move the cursor up/down

CRSR LEFT/DEL Leave a (sub)directory or D64 image

CRSR RIGHT Enter a (sub)directory or D64 image

/ Go to the root directory of the SD card

RETURN Select a directory entry, load a program, or mount a D64

image

F1 Page up

F7 Page down

F3 Mount disk, and run a program using DMA

F2 Enter the 1541 Ultimate’ Setup menu

SHIFT+C Create an empty D64 image on the SD Card. Please note that

the first D64 image created after a reset (or power-up) can take

several seconds to complete. Each subsequently created D64

should take less time.

SHIFT+D Create a directory on the SD Card

INST (SHIFT+DEL) Delete the selected entry