Due to the simplicity of the design, it does not have nibbler support and therefore copy protected data cannot be transferred through the device. However, there are some shortcomings of the xu1541 interface. This in turn gives direct access to the content of the disk drive and the software on the diskettes. It simply allows sending low level IEC commands back and forth through the USB interface. The interface does not transform the diskette drives into a mass storage USB device like, e.g. This way data can easily be transferred between diskettes and the harddrive of a PC. The xu1541 interface is a way to connect Commodore IEC bus devices to the USB port of modern-day computers. The devices can even interface with the WinVICE emulator allowing to run games and programs directly from the diskette drive and executed on the modern hardware. In this context, the xu1541 devices can be used to interface PC’s with IEC devices like the Commodore 1541, 1571 or 1581 Diskette drives. This way disks can be copied without the need of a Commodore 64 machine. The question is how to do this as easy as possible?Įven though, it is possible to back up Commodore 64 data to other storage devices (like a SD2IEC or 1541 Ultimate II), using a modern-day computer seems like the easier approach. This nostalgic piece of code, showed to our cheering classmates at my 13th birthday, has been lost to the eternal bit fields as I did not back it up in time… I therefore decided to look through the rest of my pile of diskettes and check for other hidden treasures. Like the crude animation of my dreaded gym teacher from primary school that I wrote in BASIC with a buddy of mine. games and demos) in the case of data loss, some data may be more valuable to some than others. While most of the data can quite easily be found online ( i.e. It is well known that data stored on this type of media is not the safest place to keep it. Are Data Back-ups for Sissies? Some of us still have heaps of old 5.25″ floppies laying around.
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