ZoomFloppy+OpenCBM+8050

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Published on December 1, 2023 3:24:00 PM ● Video Link: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GhEqdP73-cc

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The main issue with the Commodore 8050 and 8250 drives is: How do you get data onto them? The units use 100tpi floppy drives that are incompatible to the regular 48tpi and 96tpi disk drives used in the 1541 and in PC DD and HD drives. So there is no chance using those. However there is the ZoomFloppy, which is an implementation of the XUM1541 interface and it comes with an optional IEE488 plug! We can attach the 8050 to that, and use the OpenCBM tools to read and write data to and from the floppies.

XUM1541: http://root.org/~nate/c64/xum1541/
ZoomFloppy: https://github.com/go4retro/ZoomFloppy
OpenCBM: https://github.com/OpenCBM/OpenCBM
1541 only XUM1541: https://github.com/tebl/C64-XUM1541/

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0:00 Introduction + Explaining the Issues
9:27 OpenCBM Tutorial
14:35 cbmctrl
19:45 cbmcopy
26:18 Demonstration