ZoomFloppy

First my hats off to Jim Brain for once again creating a fantastic new piece of hardwarwe for the Commmodore. Jim you hit it out of the park the Zoom Floppy. For price and power you can't beat it. Easy to setup and get running. With the right trasnfer software it is a ease to make d64 images of your Commodore 64 5 1/4" disks. Works good with a 1541 but get a 1571. I've been transferring disks without a problem. Get the Zoom Floppy for transferring your C64 disks to digital.

Five days ago - at last - it arrived, the envelope containing the long awaited ZoomFloppy. Unpacked it, read the manual, installed drivers and gui and finally used it. Installation and usage is a breeze. I just had to adapt the batch files as my desired drive was not c:. Just minutes later, my first C64 disk was written and my kids learned how good the old times were - for real, not just emulated :) The only problem was the deliery... Ok, the german customs authorities to be more precise. The product was sent off right as expected and it travelled the distance from the U.S. to Germany in six days via Chicago, Madrid and finally Frankfurt. That's a great time! But then the package stayed for 31 days at german customs for clearance. It seems, german customs clerks have to speed up to finally stop... Best wishes from the black forest

This product is well worth the price and then some. No problems at all with the hardware. Software is the only learning curve, if it was updated regularly (ie, incorporate all uses of ZoomFloppy into 1 graphical interface that is scalable to any display) this would be a total package worth twice its price.

Zoomfloppy - a great hardware for handling and copy Dxx-, G64- and Nib-files from CBM drives (1541, 1571 drives) to modern pc and back to CBM drives. It works quick and easy. Many thanks to Nate Lawson for the Zoonfloppy, to Jim Brain for the online shop (RETRO Innovations), to Spiro R. Trikaliotis for OpenCBM and to Pete Rittwage for nibtools. Also thanks to all other people, that are involved. I use the ZoomFloppy some days now on a Windows XP laptop and it works great. First I have installed the "opencbm-ZoomFloopy-2.0-i386.zip" package (date: 2011/9/25) and the ZoomFloppy hardware how describes the manual. After this I have replaced the older nibtools files with the newest version (r613, date: 05-Jul-2015) and the newer OpenCBM files (version 0.4.99.97 ALPHA STAGE! date: April 7th, 2014). Important: Do not replace the file "xum1541cfg.exe", there is a verry much older version in the alpha package! I use a 1571 drive with a 6526A chip and JiffyDOS. The drive is connected with a serial cable to the Zoomfloppy. Now I have copyed some D64, G64 and nib files from pc to 1571 drive and back (e.g. copy protected disks like original Geos disks). It works quick and easily. No problems at all.

Last week I used the ZoomFloppy to read some old double-sided disks with a 1571 drive. The disks were in bad shape, but a bottle of isopropanol and a million Q-tips fixed that. The drive heads also needed some TLC. Anyway, I mostly used CBMXfer to pull individual files from the disks. Worked a treat. I also tried creating D64 images of the disks, which would sometimes hang up midway through (I suspect that was my drive at fault, not the ZoomFloppy). Power cycling the drive and ZoomFloppy was necessary in those cases. I never tried any writes to the disks. Thanks to all the contributors for their work on this product - it helped me recover my old treasures. And $35 is truly a bargain.

It is absolutely professionally produced, and I am happy to have a replacement for my ancient printer-port x-cable, that enables data-transfer even with modern pc's. Installing the driver under windows 8 is a bit tricky, but possible. I can recommend the zoomfloppy to every commodore-user. It is well spent money indeed!

Works like a champ! I have hundreds of C= disks but haven't had a 64 for around 15 years. I despaired of being able to *easily* and inexpensively transfer all of my stuff to the PC. Then I found this product, and I've been copying to my heart's content ever since. It's easy to use--all I had to do was hook up two wires to it--and with the GUI4CBM4WIN software (the front-end for OpenCBM), my disks are read quickly.

Awesome product. Very easy to use. This is the perfect device to use to archive all my Commodore disks.

A few steps to get everything installed and setup, but after that, its all 8 bit glory. Works really well, no problems with the device. Its great to be able to preserve all that legacy content. Many thanks to the creators.