ZoomFloppy

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$35.00 - $42.00
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ZOOMFLOPPY-BASE
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Product Overview

Archive your Commodore floppies (and CMD HD partitions) to your contemporary PC, without the hassles of external parallel ports, IRQ settings, special adapters, bulky cables, or the alphabet soup of disk drive cable adapters.  ZoomFloppy replaces all X*-1541 cables with a simple USB-based hardware device guaranteed to work with today's machines using today's multitasking operating systems.  Simply plug into any free USB port, connect your CBM drive via a serial cable, and transfer data to or from your software collection. 

Product Features

  • Attach any CBM serial device to your PC, including printers
  • Works with Windows, Mac OS X, and Linux
  • Open Source solution, no vendor lock-in
  • Active development community
  • Minimal footprint, no external power supply needed
  • Parallel access hardware support

NOTE: ZoomFloppy requires an IEC cable (sold separately), an IEEE cable if using the IEEE version and targeting IEEE drives (sold separately), and a USB to mini-USB cable (available at many computer stores). 

More information is available at: http://www.go4retro.com/products/zoomfloppy/.

Stocking Note: The non-IEEE and the IEEE version differ only in the presence or absence of the IEEE connector.  That said, they are stocked as two separate items and we are sometimes out of one or the other. If the IEEE version is out of stock, we can often solder connectors to the non-IEEE version, but the reverse is not true.  Thus, if the non-IEEE version is showing as out of stock, please consider the IEEE version or check back, as we try to keep both in stock at all times

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  • 5
    Must have for D64 archival

    Posted by Lorin Millsap on 30th Jan 2011

    I preordered this. I used to use Starcommander years ago with an ancient 386 machine that to me served no other purpose. This approach was slow, and getting the image files from that machine to a new one was a hassle, as the old machine could not burn disks and did not have networking, and the newer machines don't have floppy drives. I have to say, this unit is pretty easy to use, its fast, and it is very affordable, and much easier than building your own adapter. The fact that it has built in support for parallel cables is an added bonus. Use on the Mac actually isn't too bad. The software does have to be downloaded from multiple locations (Macports and the required Portsfile), the links for both are on the Mac instructions page. At this time, there is no Mac GUI, but the commands are documented, they just have to be typed into the Terminal. Its probably just a matter of time before a GUI is developed. So Mac support does in fact work, and works well at that. I actually had more difficulty with setting the device up with VMware Fusion (setup failed in Windows 7, had to use XP instead!!!)