Floppy Drive Oceanic OC-118 (aka Excelerator+) Boxed
The Oceanic OC-118N Floppy Drive is a perfect clone of a Commodore 1541/1541-II Floppy Drive.
The strong point of this Floppy Drive is the compatibility, i would say almost total with all the software available for Commodore 64 including obviously fastLoader/original software.
There are two models of OC-118N.
The model with three dip switches and the model with two dip switches.
The difference between one and the other model is essentially the ROM; JIFFYDOS Licensed (three dip switches) / R-DOS -ROX-DOS? (two dip switches).
Between the two models there are also some differences on the mechanical part (see photo) and also seems that on the three dip switches model the front sticker is missing (not confirmed).
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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.