I did a similar project a couple of weeks ago for a friend. I build the arduino directly into the 1541 and also connected the parrallel wires. Pretty easy to do with a dupont cable. Cut the cable and solder it to the chip on the motherboard and the serial connector. The connect the dupont connectors to the arduino. I designed and printed a mount formthe arduino so I could glue it into the case and drilled a hole so I can connect the usb cable if needed. Works great. Advantage of the parrallel connection is that it is way faster and you can copy/write copy protected disks. I made the same ‘mistake’ with programming the arduino with the com port changing 😉. Nice project and video again 👍
It is somewhat strange seeing someone else handle my boards since I usually just build one for myself, but I am glad it was an adventure ending with a working backup. Still have not made it through backing up all of my old disks, but it is good to know the important ones will never disappear 😀
I've fitted the Pro Micro board directly into the 1541. That cheap method requires just the bare Pro Micro board and a few wires to solder to the 1541 board. I left a USB cable dangling out of the case to connect the drive to the PC.
3:34 Zoom Floppy is based on XUM1541. "ZoomFloppy is partially named after the “xum” in XUM1541, which many people pronounce as “zoom”." ZoomFloppy commercialized an opensource project.
Great gadget. Just what I've been looking for (for a long time). And for an affordable price (it seems). Thank you. PS: And nice and professional announcer girl for the sponsor section. 🙂 👌
@@Arcticretro I have an XA1541 cable you can connect the 1541-II to the PC and use it with real 1541-II on WinVice 3.2, I just wanted to know if this was possible. Regards
Very nice video as always. I've tried the same and it works fine with opencbm d64copy.exe. I've also tried Nibtools, but then I get the following error when using nibread.exe: USB error in xum1541_wait_status: LIBUSB_ERROR_PIPE USB error in xum1541_ioctl cmd: LIBUSB_ERROR_IO Somebody who knows how to fix this?
I did a similar project a couple of weeks ago for a friend. I build the arduino directly into the 1541 and also connected the parrallel wires. Pretty easy to do with a dupont cable. Cut the cable and solder it to the chip on the motherboard and the serial connector. The connect the dupont connectors to the arduino. I designed and printed a mount formthe arduino so I could glue it into the case and drilled a hole so I can connect the usb cable if needed. Works great. Advantage of the parrallel connection is that it is way faster and you can copy/write copy protected disks. I made the same ‘mistake’ with programming the arduino with the com port changing 😉. Nice project and video again 👍
Thanks a lot. Sounds like you did a great job there!
It is somewhat strange seeing someone else handle my boards since I usually just build one for myself, but I am glad it was an adventure ending with a working backup. Still have not made it through backing up all of my old disks, but it is good to know the important ones will never disappear 😀
Very nice board. And thanks for giving it to me :)
I've fitted the Pro Micro board directly into the 1541. That cheap method requires just the bare Pro Micro board and a few wires to solder to the 1541 board. I left a USB cable dangling out of the case to connect the drive to the PC.
Nice :)
Thank, you, I got mine running thanks to your detailed description!
Glad I could help!
Love your videos. And it's always a special extra bonus to hear music by Anders Enger Jensen!
Thanks!
I was trying the old method for years on old PCs with star commander etc, to no avail.
I did this with an Amiga in an afternoon 😕
Excellent detailed build and my sincere envy at your beautiful snowy place!
Thank you very much!
Very cool. I had a parallel port cable back in the day, then I bought one of Jim Brain's iec boards.
Thanks!
You gave me a great help to program the Arduino. Thanx !!!
3:34 Zoom Floppy is based on XUM1541.
"ZoomFloppy is partially named after the “xum” in XUM1541, which many people pronounce as “zoom”."
ZoomFloppy commercialized an opensource project.
Ok, a little error there
Cool device. I wonder if it could be used for cassette drives.
No, that is a completely different system. But there are devices for that too out there.
Nice! This one will be my morning coffee video for the day. ☕ Been looking into solutions for this.
Hope you enjoy!
Great gadget. Just what I've been looking for (for a long time).
And for an affordable price (it seems). Thank you.
PS: And nice and professional announcer girl for the sponsor section. 🙂 👌
Thanks a lot :)
OK, OK I'll do business with PCBWay - dang "Supermodels"...🤣
Nice build! Very useful adapter, I like it.
I'm glad you like it
hehehe... 'Delemaskin' :]
Greetings from a german, speaing danish...
you are good at soldering. I have the fist version..
Thank you :) I shake a bit, but that's not a problem usually :)
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Maybe stupid question, but can't you put the floppy in a PC's drive?
No. For one I don't have that old PC drive and that old PC's don't have internet and usb and all that stuff. And completely different format
Hi. Can this device be used to write .d64 files to 5.25" floppies, so that they can be used on a real C64?
I appreciate you went trough the possible 'troubles' also..
great effort, thanks!
Glad it was helpful!
Good device, but the software hoops are daunting.
You only need a parallel cable for faster speeds; no need for Speeddos or something similar.
Ok, thanks!
The S-JiffyDOS 1541 ROM should still speed this up quite a bit
@@Breakfast_of_Champions The advantage of a parallel cable is that you can do a nibble copy with a 1541. Otherwise you'll need a 1571.
Hoi tommy greets from belgium
Hoi there. Greetings from stormy Bodø!
Hi,works with WinVice to read a real 1541-II drive?
I don't think that is possible to do directly. You could easily just copy the whole floppy to a D64 file and mount that in vice in stead
@@Arcticretro I have an XA1541 cable you can connect the 1541-II to the PC and use it with real 1541-II on WinVice 3.2, I just wanted to know if this was possible.
Regards
Very nice video as always. I've tried the same and it works fine with opencbm d64copy.exe. I've also tried Nibtools, but then I get the following error when using nibread.exe:
USB error in xum1541_wait_status: LIBUSB_ERROR_PIPE
USB error in xum1541_ioctl cmd: LIBUSB_ERROR_IO
Somebody who knows how to fix this?