I did it another way.  My friend bought a Greaseweazle and put a 3.5" drive and 5.25" drive into a case.  He then gave me the hardware, and now with the use of a USB cable and PC, I can transfer Commodore, Amiga, and other platform software.

Truly,
Robert Bernardo
Fresno Commodore User Group - http://www.dickestel.com/fcug.htm
Southern California Commodore & Amiga Network - http://www.portcommodore.com/sccan

The XUM1541 Pico is a compact and stripped down version of XUM1541/ZoomFloppy. It allows you to connect your modern PC/Mac/Linux to your old Commodore diskdrive (1541, 1541-II, 1570, 1571, 1581) and transfer disk images (d64, d81 and others) to real floppies or transfer/backup floppies to disk images.

Features:

Based on ATmega32U4 micro controller

Built with high quality components from Atmel, Texas Instruments, Molex and others.

Single buffered IEC port

Status LEDs (power and activity)

One 15cm/6" USB cable included

Rubber feet on board bottom side

Reset bottom (press for DFU mode/firmware upgrade)

XUM1541 Home Page

40 years ago today the Commodore 128 was released at the 1985 CES show in Las Vegas, Nevada.

Happy New Year, everybody!
    There will be Commodore and Amiga computers at the April 12 Los Angeles Maker Faire 2025!  Check the listing of our exhibit, Classic Los Angeles Computers! (CLAC!), at

https://losangeles.makerfaire.com/makers-exhibits/

        Happy New Year!
        Robert Bernardo
        Fresno Commodore User Group
        http://www.dickestel.com/fcug.htm
        Southern California Commodore & Amiga Network
        http://www.portcommodore.com/sccan

    The websites of the Commodore Los Angeles Super Show and the Pacific Commodore Expo NW have been updated!  Check out CLASS 2025, set for April 26-27, at

http://www.portcommodore.com/class

    Check out PaCommEx 2025, set for June 21-22, at

http://www.portcommodore.com/pacommex

    Both sites will continue to be updated, especially the news, presentations, exhibits, and prizes pages.

          Merry Christmas!
          Robert Bernardo
          Fresno Commodore User Group –
          http://www.dickestel.com/fcug.htm
          Southern California Commodore & Amiga Network –
          http://www.portcommodore.com/sccan

    Ray Carlsen still has many of his Commodore and Amiga power supplies for sale!  These heavier-duty items are just the thing you need to keep your Commodore or Amiga working reliably for years.

    As of early November, he had parts to build 30-50 of his "barebones" power supplies and parts to build 20-40 of each of the following power supplies --

plastic version
mini metal-cased version
deluxe metal-cased version

To see all the different power supplies, go to

https://portcommodore.com/rcarlsen/customPS.html

He can put different output connectors onto the power supplies, whether you need the round C64/VIC-20 coaxial, the squarish Plus/4 connector, the squarish C128 connector, the squarish Amiga connector, and more.  He can customize the power supply to fit your needs!  (He loves to work on custom projects.)

    Not only does he do power supplies but he also makes Commodore 8-bit computer video cables, like the composite-audio RCA plug output cable, the separated chroma/luma audio RCA plug cable, the composite-svideo audio female 1/8" output cable (for modern, external, powered speakers), and more.  Just tell him what kind of cable you need.

          Merry Christmas!
          Robert Bernardo
          Fresno Commodore User Group -
          http://www.dickestel.com/fcug.htm
          Southern California Commodore & Amiga Network -
          http://www.portcommodore.com/sccan

A few months ago Nybbles and Bytes released a new C128 game which uses 40-column and 80-column modes, Nybbles: Legend of the Drunken Snake. This is a description of it at the Patreon site --

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June's first ever video game, made especially for the Commodore 128 series of computers!

How fast are you with the joystick? Nybbles: Legend of the Drunken Snake will certainly challenge your reflexes! Take turns with a friend to become the longest running snake player ever, dodging booze and eating apples, but be careful! Not everything is without consequences!

This is the digital download version of the game, which includes:

A PNG of the disk label

A PDF of the game manual

A D64 disk image of the game

A PRG program file of the game

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Basically, it is a tricky Snake game in 40-columns followed by a Tetris game in 80-columns. A video of the game play can be found at

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PqXvZHCi4iI

Specifically, in the video game play starts in at :34 secs to 5:04 and then resumes from 11:49 to 15:44.

If you have an early VDC in your C128, you will have to replace it with a later version in order to correctly see the 80-column screen.

To read how the physical version of the game was produced, read the blog at

https://nybblesandbytes.net/blog/vcfmw19.html

To purchase a digital download of the game, go to

https://www.patreon.com/c/nybblesandbytes/shop

Merry Christmas!
Robert Bernardo
Fresno Commodore User Group - http://www.dickestel.com/fcug.htm
Southern California Commodore & Amiga Network - http://www.portcommodore.com/sccan

The Other Group of Amigoids (TOGA) is no longer at togausergroup.org .  You can find their new site at

https://www.meetup.com/toga-the-other-group-of-amigoids/

TOGA concentrates on the Amiga, Commodore 8-bit, and other classic computers.

Merry Christmas!
Robert Bernardo

Quote from: BigDumbDinosaur on December 09, 2024, 05:56 AMCan the files in RAR format be converted to ZIP?  I don't have anything that can open an RAR file.

Sure - these mostly date from the early 2000s when RAR was a tad more widespread. 

Guessing you aren't using Windows ? WinZip opens them.

Quote from: BigDumbDinosaur on December 09, 2024, 06:07 AM

Quote from: Blacklord on November 26, 2024, 05:20 AM

Quote from: BigDumbDinosaur on November 26, 2024, 01:16 AMWhich OS version are you running?

Windows Server 2022

Really?  I would have thought you'd be running some flavor of *NIX.

Nope - never been a big fan of Linux TBH !

I'd happily run ArcaOS (OS/2) if I could get away with it - but Apache hasn't been updated in a couple of years