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Credits 

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Nate Lawson designed the ZoomFloppy over several years. He built the prototype boards 
and wrote the firmware, OpenCBM plugin, nibtools mods, and this manual. 

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Jim Brain at RETRO Innovations did the PCB design, manufacturing, and hardware sales 
and support. 

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Wolfgang Moser provided design advice and lots of debugging assistance with his 
complex drive setup. 

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Christian Vogelsgang did the Mac port and was an early tester. 

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Spiro Trikaliotis, Thomas Winkler, Joe Forster, and Thomas Kindler all helped review 
changes and provide advice, in addition to other code they’ve written. 

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Peter Rittwage continues to update nibtools to support reading/writing protected disks. 
Original code for mnib was by Markus Brenner. 

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Dean Camera provided the very useful LUFA AVR USB library 

Summary of Contents for ZoomFloppy

Page 1: ... THE ZOOMFLOPPY MAY DAMAGE YOUR DRIVES OR THE ZOOMFLOPPY ITSELF Introduction to the ZoomFloppy At a minimum the ZoomFloppy must be connected to one or more floppy drives via the IEC serial port 6 pin DIN and to a computer via USB It is powered over USB so no external supply is needed This configuration gives basic access to read and write disks OpenCBM provides some faster serial transfer routines...

Page 2: ...mber 1591XXTSBK This case is available from many suppliers such as Digi key You ll have to cut at least one side of the case to allow for the connectors http www hammondmfg com dwg2XXS htm http www hammondmfg com scpg htm The case dimensions in inches are 4 853 wide x 3 278 long x 2 2 deep without lid More info on the exact dimensions can be found on the above pages Windows Installation This distr...

Page 3: ...he command line utilities can be used directly from the shell by adding C opencbm bin to your PATH environment variable B Plug in the ZoomFloppy via USB and install the Windows driver Once you plug in the ZoomFloppy you ll see a standard device driver installation prompt We ll be installing a driver extracted from this zip file located under the windrv folder You do not need to reboot after instal...

Page 4: ...3 Select Install from a list or specific location 4 Click Next ...

Page 5: ...5 Browse to the windrv folder extracted from the OpenCBM zip file 6 Click OK 7 Verify your screen looks like the above and click Next ...

Page 6: ...similar to the C64 cartridge port D Plug the ZoomFloppy back into USB The LED on it should come on but you shouldn t get a driver installation prompt this time If you do something went wrong installing the drivers and you should repeat step B above or see the troubleshooting section below E Turn on your floppy drive s F Test that the ZoomFloppy is working Run the file runtest bat by double click o...

Page 7: ... your drive is a must These cables originally designed for SpeedDOS and Burst Nibbler connect the VIA or CIA chip in your 1541 or 1571 drive to a 15 pin D SUB female connector aka game port The best way to attach the cable is the solderless approach You remove the VIA in your drive plug in a socket and then plug the VIA into the socket The D SUB port is then attached to the case or routed out the ...

Page 8: ...Reinstall the drivers cbmctrl detect returns an error no xum1541 device found ZoomFloppy not plugged into USB Check the USB connection and try again Unplug the USB cable and plug it in again to reset the board cbmctrl detect returns nothing no error Drive not connected via IEC cable or not powered on Unplug ZoomFloppy from USB to power it off Then connect drive cable plug in ZoomFloppy power on dr...

Page 9: ...y interfere with proper operation of other drives Be careful of static electricity discharge when plugging unplugging any electronic equipment Consider getting a case for your ZoomFloppy board if you are concerned about the environment you will be using it in Proper power on sequence We have tested leaving the ZoomFloppy connected to powered on drives for days with no problems even though it was n...

Page 10: ...d design advice and lots of debugging assistance with his complex drive setup Christian Vogelsgang did the Mac port and was an early tester Spiro Trikaliotis Thomas Winkler Joe Forster and Thomas Kindler all helped review changes and provide advice in addition to other code they ve written Peter Rittwage continues to update nibtools to support reading writing protected disks Original code for mnib...

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