Re: USB to IEC

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