Can the Commander copy protected disks?
Not really. Fortunately, there’s now a well-documented standard for a GCR-coded disk image format. However, reading enough data from a Commodore disk is quite hard. Currently, you should use warp transfer mode because it can duplicate simple copy protections, those involving intentional read errors on the disk. Copy the source disk into a sixpacked ZipCode archive and then further convert the archive into a GCR-coded disk image. • Q: Can the Commander work the other way around, that is, act as a Commodore drive, connected to a Commodore machine? A: No, and I’m not planning to implement that. The Commander acts as a Commodore machine, to make the drive think it’s communicating with the real thing. To implement the idea above, it would have to simulate a Commodore drive which is just the opposite and a more sophisticated problem. There exist file servers running on the PC, try those instead. • Q: How do I access the built-in drive of my C128D or SX64? A: Please, read the “Usage” section
