Comments on: xum1541 – Fast USB C64 floppy adapter!

By: Xyno

Xyno — Thu, 07 May 2009 19:23:34 +0000

Nice one!
This is what I was looking for…it will be awesome !

By: rich conrad

rich conrad — Fri, 06 Feb 2009 04:31:47 +0000

is there any way u would build one for me and sell it? rich rcon303 at yahoodotcommmm

By: Nate Lawson

Nate Lawson — Sat, 24 Jan 2009 04:49:06 +0000

Hi all, glad to see you like the work. This project is not intended to compete with 1541 replacements like the 1541-III, 1541 Ultimate, etc. Instead, it’s an advancement of the X series of cables to allow you to hook up a 1541 to a PC.

I’m most interested in this from the perspective of imaging originals. nibtools can both read and write raw images, which means you can remaster a game with all protection intact if you want.

The only USB X-adapter now is the xu1541. With all respect to it (the xum1541 is partially based on its firmware), the xu1541 is slower and does not support the parallel nibbler protocol. That is pretty tricky over USB since it’s a low-latency protocol.

Keep in mind its intended use and it will make sense. Thanks.

By: Awol

Awol — Fri, 23 Jan 2009 05:31:10 +0000

The C64TPC uses its own software that runs under Windows.

By: Akira||8GB

Akira||8GB — Fri, 23 Jan 2009 05:21:53 +0000

This device is fully compliant and has teh same functionalities as any X1541 type cable.
Actually, I don’t know if you can use C64TPC with 64HDD, can you?

By: Awol

Awol — Fri, 23 Jan 2009 05:00:28 +0000

Oh… I didn’t know you could connect a PC straight to the C64 with this. From the video and description above it sounded like it only connected to the floppy drive.

By: Akira||8GB

Akira||8GB — Thu, 22 Jan 2009 16:32:27 +0000

“Why use the limited space on a floppy with a big heavy floppy drive, when you can read/write faster straight from the practically unlimited space of a light thin laptop’s hard drive?”

dude, this works just like any Xx1541 interface. That means anything will work, like with a cable, or C64TPC… You mean 64HDD? That shit runs only on archaic systems. Anything else is running under OpenCBM nowadays.

By: Awol

Awol — Thu, 22 Jan 2009 09:29:45 +0000

The C64TPC is also cheaper. That said, I’ll probably get one of these anyway, so I can make physical floppies to mail/give to people.

By: Awol

Awol — Thu, 22 Jan 2009 09:23:24 +0000

This seems like MORE of a hassle than a C64TPC, in terms of using programs. Why use the limited space on a floppy with a big heavy floppy drive, when you can read/write faster straight from the practically unlimited space of a light thin laptop’s hard drive? This is cool, but it only seems useful for backing up stuff that is already on floppy.

By: paris

paris — Thu, 22 Jan 2009 05:24:29 +0000

very cool! and at < $40 it is cheap enough for even me :-)