Copying from a floppy to an SD card?

I do a fair amount of cross-C64 work, but all of it's on Linux.. here's what I can tell you, much of which applies to MS/Win as well. First you need a method of reading the original C-64 floppy into a .D64 (or other supported) image. This requires +four+ basic things - a PC, a 1541 (or compatible) drive, a supporting software suite and one of the various X-1541 cables. These days, with modern multi-tasking OSes, I'd suggest using nothing but the XM-1541 cable design. These may be purchased, or, with a little time & effort, built up by the DIY-er. The XM-1541 cable connects the CBM 1541 drive to the parallel port on the PC. The software suite (I highly suggest OpenCBM!) acts as a userland driver / utility suite, allowing you to read, write, format etc. original SS/SD disks on the 1541 drive. Once you have successfully read images of the disk(s), then it's up to you how you handle them.. If you have one of the SD-based systems, simply copy over the image to the SD and you're good! I don't use SD card, just original 1541 & floppies, so wouldn't have much help for that end of the process. But I'm sure it's very well documented by the vendor of the SD-card drive hardware - right? =) On Mon, Feb 22, 2016 at 6:41 PM, Fred Cisin <cisin at xenosoft.com> wrote: