ZoomFloppy

A fantastic product from install to being used in less than 10 mins and it does exactly what it's designed to do money well spent If you need a device to transfer between pc and commodore floppy drive and back again does it with ease. I live in the UK and received it with out any problems

Worked great for transferring my old Commodore 64 floppies. Quality ie excellent, although I wish a case was available as an option to protect it.

I had a small collection of protected and unprotected disks and I wanted to back them up as painlessly as possible and the ZoomFloppy was simply the best solution. The only part of the process that failed were the disks themselves (some were bad). If you have a C= 1571 drive, backing up is even better due to the support for nibble copy.

Was able to make images of disks easily with d64copy on Ubuntu with nearly zero effort.

I am very pleased with the quality of workmanship and the ease of use of the ZoomFloppy. I found this product after discovering my prior solution (X1541 cable) would not work with my modern computer. The last time I connected my 1541 drive to a PC was almost 20 years ago! While I dabble in PCB design and manufacture I do not have the equipment to work with surface mount devices so making my own USB adapter was going to be a no go. You cannot imagine my delight when I discovered this product. Not only did it provide a serial -> USB interface but it included a paralell interface as well. So I ordered one and patiently awaited its arrival. It works flawlessly. Literally my only issue with it was having to find a mini-USB cable. I had to dig around for a bit.

I always looked for a product to write my D64-Images to real floppies, but nothing really worked - until I found ZoomFloppy. This product just works like a charm, fast and reliable. An absolute must-have!

If you are a serious C64 user, you are probably using a floppy drive. Before purchasing the Zoomfloppy, I was using D64IT on the Commodore to transfer .d64 images back to floppy disk from a uIEC device. (Takes around 30 minutes, and forget trying to create a disk from a .nbz or .g64) With Zoomfloppy connected to a 1571 I can create and backup floppy in less than a minute. (Some in 30 seconds!) I'm able to create disks from .nbz originals meaning that I can put the original disks back in my library. (Copy protection and all) I'm no longer worried about loosing a disk to wear and accident, as I can restore it back from a backup using Zoomfloppy in moments.

I had this for a while before it would work for me. It identified my 1541 drive, but I couldn't get it to read a directory with cbmctrl. cbmctrl status worked intermittently. I assumed my 1541 drive was bad, so I replaced a bunch of parts on it (7406, 74ls14 and both 6522 chips). Finally, I thought of trying the ZoomFloppy on another computer. It worked fine. I went back to the original PC and messed with the BIOS settings related to the USB port. Disabling USB 3.0 in the BIOS did the trick. None of this is meant as a complaint. When you get out your old Commodore hardware, you're starting an adventure. The ZoomFloppy is superior to the old PC parallel port transfer cables. I'm happy I bought it.

...that can describe the moment I saw that my over 30 years old floppydisks were read out without any errors. :-) After an easy setup the Zoomfloppy works absolutely perfect. The opencbm commands are easy to use in an own program or script, so I wrote a small script to read out the disc to *.d64 and the listing of the directory to an *.txt file. All works fine, so thanks a lot to the people who don't let the C64 (and others) die and build so wonderful things like Zoomfloppy. Greetings from Germany, Cologne