ZoomFloppy

This brilliant piece is amazing. Just install the drivers and software, connect the ZF board to your floppy drive via Commodore's serial cable - and there you go. The CLI tools (I only tested those) are simple and efficient. Maybe there are other solutions out there, but I am really satisfied with ZF. And ordering this from Austria was no prob and fast. The only (serious) downer for me as a Linux user was that I had to fall back to Windows. Though the software is there for Linux, it (afaik) only works with older kernels. As other solutions will use the specific OS libraries, I guess that all of them will not work with kernels >=3.0

This USB floppy adapter works great. Install the driver package per instructions. Then I used "CBMXfer" to transfer my old Commodore files from the old 1541 disk drive to my laptop. After that I use "VICE C64" Emulator to run the programs (from attached disk images). To get going with the VICE C64 Emulator, click "Settings>Peripheral Settings>Drive 8 tab>Use IEC Device>Real IEC Device. I used this long-awaited device to rescue an old mineral database and permutation algorithm. I cleaned up my old 1541 floppy drive by taking off the hood and metal shield, removed the old cheese sandwich, removed the circuit board (carefully marking the plugs), brushing everything off with a soft little brush, cleaning the metal bar slides, read head and pad with isopropyl alcohol and Q-tips. Then I slightly oiled the metal bar slides, motor hole (remove the paper dot), all moving and spinning axle points, and door latch-spring with light sewing machine oil. After 20 years sitting in an old, dark, hot & cold closet, it runs like new! I really didn't think it would. The ZoomFloppy is also priced VERY reasonably. It is a work of genius. Thank you. GOOD WORK!

I installed this on netbook with Windows 7 starter with my C64Forever software. I was able to transfer legacy data using a VIC1541 "Alps style" serial floppy drive.

This was easy to use making image files of my disk. I have one called D-Coder which needs a nibbler cable atached to the 1541 drive. Very impressed at how easy it works. Wayne

The ZoomFloppy worked better than I could have hoped for on my grandfather's disks of stories and family history. I quickly and efficiently copied 50 or so floppies to tested, working images on my Windows 7 64-bit system. They were tested with VICE. A quick plug into my computer and 1541-II drive, a driver install and an OpenCBM download and I was rockin! Thanks for such a sweet device!

Excellent product. Works great! I would recommend it to any C64 user.

It was very easy to setup and works great with WinVice. I still think the old XM1541 was faster, but I'm not complaining.

I was needing to find a solution to backup some of my older Commodore data disks that were not originals. I had an older XM1541 cable, but the problem is I had no older computer to even make use of it. On top of that, the transfer speeds were a bit too slow.... After digging at Lemon64, I learned that the ZoomFloppy would be my best way of using a more modern computer with my Commodore drives. ZoomFloppy made use of the 1571's Burst mode, so I knew I had to pick up a 1571, which I scored TWO 1571 drives in great condition for $64 shipped on Ebay. **Please be aware of the -03 and -05 rom differences, but you can always buy JiffyDOS** Each read using nibtools and Burst mode takes 25 seconds each side. No issues. No problems. Thanks for the great product!

I have a batch of old floppy disks containing Commodore 64 programs I wrote about 25 years ago, and I wanted to take one last look at some of them. I have a working Commodore 1541 disk drive, but unfortunately a NON-working Commodore 64 computer. With the ZoomFloppy it was a breeze to hook up the 1541 disk drive to my PC (running Windows XP) and transfer all the data from my old disks into PC files. I recommend following the link from the product description, to get the installation instructions. Everything worked just as described!