ZoomFloppy

No problem, easy to set up. Works flawlessly.

I was impressed with the speed at which I could dump my old games, but disappointed in the reliability and accuracy of doing so. Only after lots of fighting with sloppy rips and broken copy protection did I come to understand the limitations of this product as a means of archiving games. It's basically impossible to measure the lengths of SYNCs with any accuracy, and bit decoding of anything not in standard BAM format is a crapshoot. Note this complaint applies to the XUM1541 design in general, and not the ZoomFloppy specifically. Rather than add a parallel cable connection to my 1541, which depends on the 6502 to interpret byte alignment and SYNCs, I'm not sure why a direct connection wasn't made to the head read hardware itself, with the board designed to capture the raw bitstream instead. RI: The XUM1541 design goals included: 1) provide a native USB interface, rather than the soft USB functionality of the XU1541 2) Support parallel nibbling via USB, functionality previously available for users with parallel ports but not available in the XU1541 3) Support 1541 and 1571 drives 4) require a minimum amount of modification to the 1541/1571 To answer your question, the direct head connection did not fit the above design goals, and there are other solutions (KryoFlux, DiskWeasel, GreaseWeazel, etc.) that fit that use case much better.

This has been perfect for backing up my old floppies and for copying D64 images from my Linux box for use by my C64. Its super cool to see the ol' Commodore playing modern demos and a blast to play more games on the thing. My "Enhance 2000" drive (a 1541 clone) doesn't seem to cause it any trouble. Serial copies have worked great to copy both to and from disk. The Enhance 2000 sadly doesn't look like it can be trivially modded for a parallel cable, but I've still got the option if I ever get my hands on a real 1541. And in the meantime, I can play around with alternative ways to get the GCR data through the serial port...

Works great and very easy to install. Took me just 10 minutes to get it to work. Love it!!

Thank you for continuing to make this device. Without it I was unable to get legacy code passed on from my dad to me for almost 20 - 30 years ago. I can therefore highly recommend this device as THE disk controller for PC. In case you need it to restore data or if you need to exchange data across C64 and PC, I can really recommend to grab one now, it is a marvellous piece of kit!

Couldn't be more impressed with this device. In the process of rescuing my data from 30 year old floppies: Made an old friend extremely happy to see some of his old artwork that he thought was long gone, so that's a huge highlight. And now I'm tinkering with discovering all the other cool things this can do. I just last night set up VICE emulator to use my floppy drive directly via the ZoomFloppy. Definitely got my money's worth and more, and was fairly simple to set up once I settled in and read the instructions :)

Fantastic device; functions exactly as described. Works well with all my drives. I was writing disks in 10 minutes or less. Highly recommended!

After being packed-up in the basement for 30 years I decided to resurrect my Commodore 128 along with my 1571 and 1581 drives. I sat down with 200+ 5 1/4" floppies and 50 3 1/2" disks and wondered if there was any way to copy the floppies and disks before they degrade any further. A quick search led me to the ZoomFloppy! After installing the USB driver, followed with the OpenCBM software, I use CBMXFR to easily create images of my disks. Thank you very much!

Thank you very very much ! With ZoomFloppy I'v downloaded all the programs I wrote in old '80s, now running on emulator ! I'm very happy ! ZF works fine, just a warning: the blue led turns on when you connect to the USB, then turns off : this made me loose a lot of time, thinking the connection was lost ! After many cable substitutions, I realized that led off means 'connected', and led blinks while downloading files. Thank you again guys !