On 03/28/2016 08:12 PM, Your Name wrote:   
   > In article <354e45c6-5dff-4682-9345-ec83cb43b9a3@googlegroups.com>,   
   > Brandon Taylor  wrote:   
   >>   
   >> I'm an Apple II veteran, and have used Apple II System Utilities at one   
   point   
   >> or another. I'm wondering, did Commodore 64 also have a System Utilities   
   disk   
   >> for, say, copying files from one disk to another, duplicating and formatting   
   >> disks, etc.?   
   >   
   > There's numerous utility applications for doing such things. Like the   
   > Apple II software, it was all third-party.   
   >   
      
   Hello, and I acquired my first C-64 in 1983.  There was a raft of disk   
   copy utilities produced for the C-64 and I used a lot of them.  Jim   
   Butterfield wrote an early one in BASIC (but it required 2 1541's) that   
   was included on the demo disk provided with the 1541 disk drive.  The   
   best for 1541 fast disk formatting, speed of copy and ease of use IMO   
   was "Fast Hack'em" from Basement Boys Software.  Other disk utilities   
   such as "Maverick V4/V5" from Kracker Jax allowed, among many other   
   things, unprotected disk back-ups of most commercial software including   
   those employing sophisticated (at the time) disk protection techniques.   
     (A few commercial software releases required the installation of an   
   additional circuit board within the 1541 drive in order to create a   
   backup).  Sincerely,   
   --   
   J. B. Wood	            e-mail: arl_123234@hotmail.com   
      
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