Subj : 5.25" disks
To   : paulie420
From : Roon
Date : Fri Jul 07 2023 22:32:49

Hello paulie420,

06 Jul 23 18:27, you wrote to Dr. What:

 DW>  DW>> The 5.25" diskettes on floppydisk.com are all recycled.
 DW>  DW>> And they aren't recycling them anymore according to their
 DW>  DW>> web page.
 DW>>
 DW>  pa>> Good to know; they've all worked well, for me - but I hear
 DW>  pa>> ya.
 DW>>
 DW>> Ya, it's sad.  This is why I always recommend that people update
 DW>> their vintage hardware to use floppy emulators - especially if
 DW>> they like to use them a lot and they have 5.25" drives.
 DW>>
 DW>> The clock is running out on 5.25" floppy disks and 3.5" disks
 DW>> aren't that far behind.

 p> I agree with you - thats actually my next C=64 project; I recently got
 p> around 200 original software (and user data) disks in a collection...
 p> I have to figure out how to use my SD2EIC solution to backup 5.25"s
 p> from the 1541 drive to my SDCard... I wanna get all 200 disks backed
 p> up.

you can use zoomfloppy or xum1541 for backuping up. i have both, but i prefer zoomfloppy.

https://github.com/tebl/C64-XUM1541-II
https://www.go4retro.com/products/zoomfloppy/

 p> I prefer to run on current solutions, but you always find the coolest
 p> stuff on actual disks IMO - for example, I found a KILLER computer
 p> store C=64 demo that lets you enter yer computer store name and C=64
 p> price and runs thru a demo that would be displayed in-store... so rad;
 p> gotta get that one uploaded to archive.org and csdb.dk as neither one
 p> have it!!

sounds great!

Regards,
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dp

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