A fellow has made up a nice adapter to read and write Commodore disks on
a PC via USB using a 1541 drive.
The thing that jumped out at me is that this is a 5 1/4" drive that
reads and writes via USB. Anyone want to comment on whether the
floppies it accesses would be useful other than on th
> A fellow has made up a nice adapter to read and write Commodore disks on
> a PC via USB using a 1541 drive.
>
> The thing that jumped out at me is that this is a 5 1/4" drive that
> reads and writes via USB. Anyone want to comment on whether the
> floppies it accesses would be useful other t
The USB-to-1541 interface is really no different than the parport-to-1541
interfaces, other than they use different hardware-level drivers to talk to
the C= 1541.
All of the later CBM floppy drives are (as mentioned) "intelligent
peripherals". They are nothing short of computerized appliances, con
Am 25.05.2016 um 06:45 schrieb drlegendre .:
It may, in fact, be possible - with custom ROMs - to use the 1541 for other
formats. But it's telling that no one, so far as I know, has ever managed
to create software to 'tween the various 5-1/4" floppy formats, using the
1541 transport & hardware.
T
On Wed, May 25, 2016 at 3:08 AM, jwsmobile wrote:
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> XU1541-interface-connect-your-C-drive-to-PC-enclosed-version-NEW/
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> http://www.ebay.com/itm/322092922596
Also note that other such adapters exists, the zoomFloppy being one eaxmple:
http://store.go4retro.com/zoomfloppy/
If you connect the
