A fellow has made up a nice adapter to read and write
Commodore disks on
a PC via USB using a 1541 drive.
The thing that jumped out at me is that this is a 5 1/4" drive that
reads and writes via USB. Anyone want to comment on whether the
floppies it accesses would be useful other than on the C64?
Could one do say 360K floppies via this hardware for other than the
Commodore? At least part of the work is done to do more than just
archival like Catweasel, et. al. do, in that it can also write.
The X*1541 cables (this would be an xum1541) still talk to the drives at a
relatively high level, since the 1541/71/81 family are all intelligent
peripherals. So:
For the 1541, which is strictly Commodore GCR, no.
For the 1571, which can do a variety of MFM formats, maybe, but I'm not
aware that OpenCBM supports that. On the other hand, since it's MFM, you
could easily just use something else.
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