C64 disk image tools install#
C64 disk image tools serial#

Proceed from right to left to copy a file from disk to your hard drive. You can find this file in the tools directory in VICE.ĬBMXfer allows you to copy single PRG files back and forth from your computer to a floppy, as well as read/write an entire disk image.įor single files, simply select it on the left (your PC), then click the arrow pointing right (your Commodore floppy disk drive) and the file will be written. This tool can read disk images and is necessary to display a directory contained in such an image. The file is called c1541 and is part of the VICE Emulator:

One thing no piece of documentation mentions is that to open disk images (d64 / d71 / d81 etc) you need to add another file to this directory which comes with neither OpenCBM nor CBMXfer. It is important for CBMXfer to live in the same directory as OpenCBM as it will execute those very files. Once downloaded and extracted, copy all files into the OpenCBM directory from which you can run the app by the same title.

It’s only available on Windows and makes reading from and writing to a Commodore disk drive as easy as using the Windows Explorer. CBMXfer by Steven Gray is such an endeavour. Those of us more comfortable (and spoilt by) graphic user interfaces will be pleased to hear that several GUIs have been written to take advantage of OpenCBM.

C64 disk image tools install#

Once complete ZoomFloppy can be operated via the OpenCBM command line tools without further need to install anything: plugin in ZoomFloppy, wait for Windows to complain, then navigate to the OpenCBM directory and let it search there for the driver). The Windows installer is very straightforward and installs the OpenCBM tools in c:/opencbm.Ī driver needs to be installed manually (i.e. The page contains links to an installer for Windows and Mac, as well as source files for Linux which have to be compiled from source (which did not work on CentOS). The manual explains that the software to talk to ZoomFloppy can be obtained on the following link, together with a copy of the manual: Using ZoomFloppy is kind of half documented, the other half has to be guessed – perhaps my notes on how I got this working may help others. Other ports are also available but their use is probably only known to the inventor himself. An optional parallel cable can also be attached which allows to transfer data faster and from copy protected disks.

C64 disk image tools serial#

ZoomFloppy itself is a board with a USB connector (which also acts as the link to the modern machine), and a Commodore serial type connector (the standard cable used to connect a 1541 to a C64 for example). It allows you to read and write old floppy disks from drives like the 1541, 1571, 1581 and several others. ZoomFloppy is an ingenious contraption by Nate Lawson which lets you connect real Commodore disk drives via USB to modern computers.