Re: USB to IEC

Hallo André,


Herzlichen Dank / thank you very much!


> Hi Ruud,
> 
> Am 2. Januar 2020 03:33:38 schrieb Ruud_at_Baltissen.org:
> 
> > Hallo allemaal,
> >
> >
> > I just received an email from someone who has a C64, 1541 and a
> > modern PC, Windows 10, no LPT or COM port. The 1541 appears to be
> > bad and he wants to use the PC as drive. 64HDD is out of the
> > question so he needs an USB to IEC solution. But, to be honest and
> > happy with my SD2IEC,Ultimate and IEC-ATA, I couldn't think of
> > anything.
> >
> > OK, there is Zoomfloppy but that is the other way around. And I
> > wonder if it can be used in reverse mode. So the question: doea any
> > of you know of such a device?
> 
> There used to be xs1541 and my XD2031 firmware, but I think xs1541 is
> not
> available anymore.
> 
> I've put a mirror of the xs1541 pages here
> http://www.6502.org/users/andre/xs1541/index.html
> The XD2031 firmware is here
> https://github.com/fachat/XD2031/tree/master/firmware
> It's in a state of transition but kinda works...
> 
> PetSD is supported as well, but I don't know of it's state.
> 
> The zoomfloppy does not have enough RAM to run the XD2031 firmware. I
> want
> to look into moving the firmware into a server process (as already works
> for testing XD2031) and use zoomfloppy as a pure i/o driver, but haven't
> got the time to get to that. I found it difficult to get through the
> layers
> of USB code involved in the existing firmware....
> 
> >
> > He is known with hardware and programming so I gave him the advice
> > to at least have a look at SD2IEC as a starter.
> >
> > Thanks for any input!
> 
> Hope it helps
> 
> André
> 
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