root42 wrote on 2023-11-19, 18:40:

I Broke A Vintage Floppy Drive Motor

My Commodore 8050 drive died two months ago, while being attached to a IEEE-USB interface. It seems the read-head of drive 0 was driven too far. After fixing that issue, I noticed that drive 1 wasn’t formatting disks — again. Suspecting that the DC motor for the drive might have an issue, I wanted to open it up to do maintenance. A bad decision…

https://youtu.be/cC9CUfoK_Go

I read the description of this video and it made me sad enough to not want to watch it.. 🤣! I'll watch it tonight on the way home I think. Cheers!

How to create Windows 3.11 C++ applications in a relatively easy way (while retaining cross-platform capabilities): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d6L272OApVg

adalbert wrote on 2023-11-20, 13:03:

How to create Windows 3.11 C++ applications in a relatively easy way (while retaining cross-platform capabilities): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d6L272OApVg

It has a happy end. 😁 But I learned what NOT to do, without really proper equipment like mechanical tools...

ZoomFloppy+OpenCBM+8050

The main issue with the Commodore 8050 and 8250 drives is: How do you get data onto them? The units use 100tpi floppy drives that are incompatible to the regular 48tpi and 96tpi disk drives used in the 1541 and in PC DD and HD drives. So there is no chance using those. However there is the ZoomFloppy, which is an implementation of the XUM1541 interface and it comes with an optional IEE488 plug! We can attach the 8050 to that, and use the OpenCBM tools to read and write data to and from the floppies.

https://youtu.be/GhEqdP73-cc