morse is a demo program. It uses the drive LED to output a text in morse code. morse works with 1541, 1570 or 1571 drives. A 1581 drive is not supported.
For Linux, morse is not installed automatically. You have to compile it
yourself (found in demo/morse/
) if you want to use it.
For Windows, it is part of the binary distribution.
This demo program does not allow you to specify a specific adapter/plugin. Instead, it always uses the default plugin.
Synopsis: morse [device]
The optional parameter device is the device number of the drive which
should flash its LED. If not specified, morse
utilizes drive 8.
Morse the text "SOS", "HELLO" and "YOU" (in this order) on drive 9.
cbmctrl lock morse 9 cbmctrl command 9 U3:HELLO cbmctrl command 9 U3:YOU cbmctrl unlock