I think I have the 64 bit driver...

[Mark Brown]

Hi All,

I installed the newest package and it says it will work with Windows 10, but I still have the 'this app can't run on your PC' while every other connection/piece of the program seems to be working.

Can someone link the driver here or help me in some other way so I can be sure to solve this?  I'm actually working through this with students aged 7-12 at Headwaters Academy in Ontario, Canada.  They have traded the snowmobile they learned to fix for a Commodore 64 and want to print some games, etc using the drive.

Thanks..

Mark Brown

Headwaters Academy

www.headwatersacademy.ca

[Spiro Trikaliotis]

Hello Mark,

* On Tue, Feb 01, 2022 at 04:35:11PM -0800 Mark Brown wrote:

> I installed the newest package and it says it will work with Windows 10, but I
> still have the 'this app can't run on your PC' while every other connection/
> piece of the program seems to be working.
>
> Can someone link the driver here or help me in some other way so I can be sure
> to solve this? I'm actually working through this with students aged 7-12 at
> Headwaters Academy in Ontario, Canada. They have traded the snowmobile they
> learned to fix for a Commodore 64 and want to print some games, etc using the
> drive.

I have to admit that reading this and your previous mail I do not really
understand what you have done, what you get and what is not working.

So, let's try to debug this systematically:

1. Can you give me a screenshot of your device manager, where I can see
your Zoomfloppy device? Normalle, it should appear under "USB
devices" (it might be named in a similar manner, I only have a
German Windows here, so I have to guess the English name)?

2. Can you explain which version you installed? What did you execute to
do this?

Here, it is also important to know what you did before this last
attempt? There are many instructions out there that are wrong, and
they might leave your machine in a bad state, so we would have to
clean the mess!

3. Can you explain HOW you start the program that gives you the "this
app can't run on your PC"? Can you give a screenshot of this message?
- I don't think I have ever seen it!

4. Are you running a 32 bit or a 64 bit version of Windows?


Regards,
Spiro

--
Spiro R. Trikaliotis
https://spiro.trikaliotis.net/

[Mark Brown]

Hi Spiro,

Thank you for this.  I'll admit I'm slow to get back to doing this - I'm not a patient computer guy so it takes a special night!

1. Screenshot 1 is the devices manager screen, screenshot 2 is the driver properties.

2. I used the 'install' command from the program you put up in late January, executing the install command from the zip file.  It looks like this:

opencbm-0.4.99.104

I unzipped and did 'install'.

3. I can't figure out tonight how I got to that spot - I'm pretty sure it was by using the command line interface.  

4. It is a 64 bit version of windows.  Windows 10.

The only thing I can add tonight is that when I did the much quicker attempt to see if things were working, by clicking 'runtest' in OpenCBM nothing came up - as seen in screenshot.

Thank you so much.

A class of young children are hoping to make this thing work!!!

Mark

Mark

[Spiro Trikaliotis]

Hello Mark,

* On Tue, Feb 15, 2022 at 02:23:31PM -0800 Mark Brown wrote:

> 1. Screenshot 1 is the devices manager screen, screenshot 2 is the driver
> properties.

Looks good, the driver is installed correctly.

> 2. I used the 'install' command from the program you put up in late January,
> executing the install command from the zip file. It looks like this:
>
> opencbm-0.4.99.104
>
> I unzipped and did 'install'.

Good.

> The only thing I can add tonight is that when I did the much quicker attempt to
> see if things were working, by clicking 'runtest' in OpenCBM nothing came up -
> as seen in screenshot.

After installing OpenCBM, there must be a new icon showing a (almost
black) shell and namend "OpenCBM" on your desktop.

Is it there?

If yes, can you open it and type into the command-line that opens:

"cbmctrl detect"
"cbmctrl status 8"

The following video shows what to do:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s1IJ3Kgsjwc&t=466s