New guy - Any diagrams?

[Sam Siegel]

Hello everyone,

I have 3 C64s and all my original media.

With SD2IEC and and D64IT I have been able to move some floppies to .d64 files. 

I had problem with data disks (with OCP Art Studio drawings and Geos) and look forward to seeing what Zoomfloppy can do.

Are there any diagrams for how it connects?  I just purchased it and won't have it for a little while.
Thanks!

[Spiro Trikaliotis]

Hello Sam,

* On Wed, Feb 09, 2022 at 07:58:53AM -0800 Sam Siegel wrote:

> Are there any diagrams for how it connects? I just purchased it and won't have
> it for a little while.

I am not sure what you mean.

Do you ask to get a list of what to connect to what?

The ZF has

1. one DIN connector
2. one USB connector

The USB connector is used to connect the ZF to the PC.

The DIN connector is used to connect the ZF to the drive.

That's it for a start.

If it works so far, you can connect multiple drives by daisy-chaining
them on the floppy side - like you would do with a real C64, too.

Note that you should not connect a C64 to the ZF DIN plug, unless you
know exactly what you do!

Background: The C64 does not release its IEC bus on
RESET, thus, it will block any communication of the ZF. You have to
issue a POKE command:

- Commodore 64/128: "POKE 56576, PEEK(56576) AND 239" or simply
"POKE 56576, 199".

- Commodore Plus4: "POKE 1, PEEK(1) OR 1".

- Commodore VIC20: "POKE 37137, PEEK(37137) OR 3".

on the Computer side before you can access the drives with the ZF.
Alternatively, you can also access the drive from the computer (for
example, LOAD "$",8), and the C64 and VIC20 will happily release the
bus.

If you have any further, concrete questions, feel free to ask.

Regards,
Spiro

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[Sam S. Siegel]

Thanks, I can't wait to get the device and since it's not in front of me I wasn't sure of the cabling situation. Makes perfect sense, as soon as I get this I am hooking it up!!
SSS

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[Spiro Trikaliotis]

* On Fri, Feb 11, 2022 at 03:45:22PM -0500 Sam S. Siegel wrote:
> Thanks, I can't wait to get the device and since it's not in front of me I wasn't sure of the cabling situation. Makes perfect sense, as soon as I get this I am hooking it up!!
> SSS

In this case, you might want to have a look here:

https://www.c64-wiki.de/wiki/Datei:ZoomFloppy.jpg

or here:

https://retroportblog.files.wordpress.com/2018/10/zoomfloppy-manual-1-0b.pdf

Note, however, that the installation procedure for Windows, as described
in the manual above, is *not* recommended anymore!

Just get the latest version of OpenCBM (from
https://sourceforge.net/projects/opencbm/files/opencbm/, for Windows,
you need the .ZIP file), unpack it into a folder, and double click on
the "install" (or "install.cmd") file in order to install OpenCBM and
the driver needed for the ZF.