Re: Abridged summary of zoomfloppy-users@googlegroups.com - 2 updates in 1 topic

[Myke Carter]

Hello Rod,

I am in Lexington, Kentucky, about 90 minutes east of Louisville... home
of the famous LUCKY group back in the day. If it still exists, I'm
unaware of it.

Myke


On 6/9/24 06:47, zoomflop...@googlegroups.com wrote:
> Rod Leadbitter <rodlead...@googlemail.com>: Jun 09 12:52AM +0100
>
> Where are you based myke?

[Rod Leadbitter]

Agh a long way away from me. Has anyone helped you with your issue? Why could you not get it to work? How far did you get trying it?

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[Myke Carter]

I have only returned here to see about trying again within the past 2
days or so. I've received some encouraging replies in 2 other C= groups
to which I've also been subscribed for ages. (I'm pretty sure I've been
on "Homestead" long before it was known as such. Definitely since the
1990s.)

I still have the ZoomFloppy I bought back in (guessing) 2014. I never
got *anywhere* with it - and now I'm hearing that's because I tried
using it with my 1541 when my 1571 might have been the better choice.

I didn't have JiffyDOS in my 1571 back then, though, and I still don't.
Even after buying that chip, I misplaced it while visiting my parents
for one of the holidays. They lived 12-hours from me at the time and I
never found that chip on a low shelf in their living room until 2 years
ago. And I've already misplaced it again so I probably need to just buy
another one (assuming I still can) and try again.

Ditto for the ZoomFloppy. I'm also a Linux user with only 1 Windows 10
laptop... and there might have been an issue with the Win10 driver or
something. I can't remember the specifics.

I just know I bought a ZoomFloppy to begin making .d64, .d71 and .d81
files from all of my physical floppies and about 10 years later, I still
have all those floppies in climate-controlled storage and zero virtual
disk files.

Ready to try again. Heck, I'm even willing to just pay someone to
*rent* their hardware temporarily to get this work done if what they
have is known to function correctly.

Hopefully, though, I can get what I have up-and-running correctly with a
little time and attention spent troubleshooting and experimenting.

Myke

On 6/10/24 06:47, zoomflop...@googlegroups.com wrote:
> Rod Leadbitter <rodlead...@googlemail.com>: Jun 10 07:01AM +0100