http://www.bombjack.org/commodore/books.htm where "inside commodore DOS" can be downloaded many many books http://www.commodore.ca/ many many stuff there is: http://www.commodore.ca/manuals/1541_drive/1541_drive.htm with schematics of the 1541, inside construction and so on (in case the drive crashes) many manuals as well http://project64.c64.org/hw/peri.html many docs on the c64 c64.org is a good site as well http://www.6502.org nice ressource as well http://www.classiccmp.org/cini/systems.htm some docs on the c64 especially "MCS6500 Microcomputer Family Hardware Manual" and "MCS6500 Microcomputer Family Programming Manual" http://www.unusedino.de/ec64/technical/formats/g64.html raw format of a track (this file is in the local repository) http://pinouts.ru/VideoCables/C128toScartSVideo_pinout.shtml pinout of video OUT/scart IN to connect the C64 to the TV beware the scrat pinout has to be taken as a "plug out" as found at http://www.hardwarebook.info/Video_to_TV_SCART (wires 1/2, 3/6, 17/18, 19/20 are reversed one by one) http://www.fairlight.to/tools/pc.html some tools to read c64 floppies see also disk2fdi which actually works on my setup (and is a nice and dirty hack) http://www.kjthacker.f2s.com/docs/upd765a/necfdc.htm commands of the FDC of the PC (nec 765) http://www.oldlinux.org/Linux.old/study/hardware/Floppy/FLOPPY.txt more or less same stuff, text only http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Group_Code_Recording how data is stored on a 1541 floppy http://www.pcguide.com/ref/hdd/geom/dataFM-c.html FM encoding http://www.pcguide.com/ref/hdd/geom/dataMFM-c.html http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Modified_Frequency_Modulation MFM encoding http://www.zimmers.net/anonftp/pub/cbm/manuals/anthology/p048.jpg raw disk sector format, the site has other docs and softs http://www.kotinet.com/1541/ an 1541 emulator for PC, just in case I get rid of the 1541 drive but still want one, emulated (contains a small prog to dump the 1541 rom)