Comments on: Floppy Drive Oceanic OC-118 (aka Excelerator+) Boxed https://www.nightfallcrew.com/06/02/2021/floppy-drive-oceanic-oc-118-aka-excelerator-boxed/ Lightning in the Dark Thu, 14 Nov 2024 03:35:05 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.4.2 By: wingo https://www.nightfallcrew.com/06/02/2021/floppy-drive-oceanic-oc-118-aka-excelerator-boxed/comment-page-1/#comment-157115 wingo Sun, 07 Feb 2021 14:05:45 +0000 https://www.nightfallcrew.com/?p=15365#comment-157115 i have two of these. i guess the bottom steel plate was cut by hand. one is 3-4 mm wider at the front while it's perfect at the end. it was possible to attach paralell cable to it. took 15 seconds to copy a disk with 256k extra ram in cartridge port. the single drive led had 2 colours (or more) and programs and demos made it flicker real nice. compatible with drive music too. :) most computer magazines back then said it wasn't 100% compatible with commodore drives but i had no problems with it, mind you all games were pirated. i have two of these.
i guess the bottom steel plate was cut by hand. one is 3-4 mm
wider at the front while it’s perfect at the end.

it was possible to attach paralell cable to it. took 15 seconds to copy
a disk with 256k extra ram in cartridge port.

the single drive led had 2 colours (or more) and programs and demos
made it flicker real nice. compatible with drive music too. :)

most computer magazines back then said it wasn’t 100% compatible
with commodore drives but i had no problems with it, mind you all
games were pirated.

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