C64 to a good home

Hey Kevin. This is all good advice, but there is also another way to go - and it's a bit more future-proof. For about the same cost as the Zoom floppy, you can get a device called an SD2IEC or similar. It's very simple - it connects to the IEC (disk drive) port on the C-64 and accepts a micro or mini SD card. This way you only need copy your C-64 titles to SD card (any way you like) and they will be accessible to the C-64. The device behaves like a 1541 / 1571 drive. I say the SD2IEC is future proof, as it doesn't rely on original 15X1 disk drives or 5-1/2" media, all of which could go away someday. Now _personally_ I use a home-built XM1541 cable with opencbm (free/OSS) to transfer my images to genuine 5-1.4" disk. I only do this as I'm too cheap / broke to buy something else like the SD2IEC. It is exceptionally stable and reliable - once set up, it "just works". Though if you a) run Linux and b) accept a kernel update you will need to c) recompile & re-install opencbm as the module is built specific to the running kernel. This takes only seconds, literally. -Bill On Mon, Oct 16, 2017 at 7:48 AM, Robert via cctalk <cctalk at classiccmp.org> wrote: