How to access a *real* 1541 (or CBM printer) with VICE/x64

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Prerequisites

1. cbm4linux >=0.2.3, get it here
2. VICE 1.5 or newer (source), get it here
3. A GNU/Linux (i386) box, adequate for above two packages
4. One of these patches (12K each):
   realdrive-patch-1.5.dif for VICE 1.5
   realdrive-patch-1.6.dif for VICE 1.6
   realdrive-patch-1.7.dif for VICE 1.7
   realdrive-patch-1.8.dif for VICE 1.8
   

Get it working

• Make sure you get [1] and [2] working standalone
• cd into the vice source directory
• apply [4] with patch -p1 < (whatever-path/)realdrive-patch-1.X.dif
• at this point, you have lost your VICE warranty
• run autoconf
• run automake
• run ./configure --enable-realdrive (add other options at your taste)
• if you got that far without errors, type make, otherwise I wish you some happy debugging. Good luck.
• with no errors, make install, otherwise, again, happy debugging
• run x64
• Disable true drive emulation (Settings/Drive settings/Enable true drive emulation)
• Enable Settings/Peripheral settings/Enable cbm4linux drive access
• Insert a real disk, LOAD"$",8, then LIST. Congratulations, you're done :-)

Limitations

• Doesn't work with true drive emulation enabled
• currently only available in x64
• Fastloaders won't work :-(
• Hardly tested. Space Taxi works, and even more important, Drive Composer works, too ;-)