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
    Great device!

    Posted by Arno from Germany on 10th Aug 2018

    Thanks for this great device! I have searched a long time for a working solution for backup my old floppydisks and I found the best working solution with ZoomFloppy! It was very awesome seeing that all my disks works even after more than 30 years! A big thank you for building these great devices for our 8bit-machines!

  • 5
    110% happy!!!

    Posted by Jeffrey Grzanich on 29th Jul 2018

    Recently put an order in for a couple of these, but had to wait as they were on back order status. Held out and waited patiently - glad I did. They arrived, good communication from the seller, and guess what - It actually worked and worked very well. I had tried another version listed as "XU1541" which had alot of issues and limited success. Overall, I would have to say - if you need to transfer files from a PC to a commodore disk - this is the best there is!

  • 5
    Easy to use even for beginners!

    Posted by Bill on 27th Apr 2018

    I am not the most technologically advanced person (LOL!) and after 20 minutes I had things working as it should. Super fast shipping as well. A must have for your C64 to keep archives of software.

  • 5
    A solution for my needs

    Posted by Mariano Apicella on 26th Apr 2018

    Buying zoomfloppy helped me to use my C1541/1571 with my new laptop, instead of using an old Pentium 4 computer with a parallel port and a XEP1541 cable connected. It replaces a whole old computer and it is faster. I still have to test the serial nibbler ability to perform nibble copies of disks. But I´m really happy with performance and reliability.

  • 5
    Nibbled my old C64 disks with ZoomFloppy and unmodified 1571!

    Posted by Unknown on 26th Apr 2018

    What can I say? There's nothing else like ZoomFloppy. It makes the impossible possible 30 years later. Thanks for helping me transfer all my old floppies to disk images! Granted, getting nibtools working on OSX Sierra in 2018 was no small chore, but that's no fault of ZoomFloppy. And I did finally get it all working!

  • 5
    Fantastic Device

    Posted by Unknown on 25th Apr 2018

    Works great and my 1571 makes copies super fast, awesome tool. I only wish I bought it sooner

  • 5
    So Good I Bought Another!

    Posted by Tim on 19th Apr 2018

    I bought a ZoomFloppy a few months ago and it works so good and was easy to set up I bought another one to have one on each of my computers.

  • 5
    Worthy addition for the retro computer geek

    Posted by Unknown on 16th Apr 2018

    This is a great hardware addition for any commodore user. If you still have a large software library on floppy disk, archiving to .d64 images becomes a breeze. The only downside is that it may get little usage once all your software is archived and you have moved on to an sd2iec reader. Otherwise, it's well-made and serves it's purpose well.

  • 5
    Fantastic

    Posted by Unknown on 3rd Apr 2018

    Fantastic hardware that allow you to copi to and from Commodore device, PET model included. Documentation is well written... little bit of confusion about OpenCBM (program you require to config the ZoomFloppy)