Exploring the Commodore 1581: Partitioning, Easter Eggs, And More

A patron asks about partitioning sub-directories on the Commodore 1581 disk drive, and I take the opportunity to show several other aspects of the drive: easter eggs, bugs, utilities, and software I bought on 1581-format disks. Commodore Cave: Amiga Love: User’s Guide: Become a patron: One-time donation: Ending music is an unreleased instrumental version of “You’re My Favourite PET“ by Bedford Level Experiment: Index: 0:00 Intro 1:02 A bit of info on the 1581 disk drive 2:51 Formatting a blank disk 4:46 The partition command 9:48 Entering the partition, and formatting the sub-directory 13:20 Easter eggs in the 1581 14:47 Datasette 1581 incompatibility 16:28 1581 ROM revisions 17:43 Looking at the Block Allocation M