Learn how to control vintage Commodore disk drives using modern Rust code, including async. This video demonstrates building a bridge between 2025’s systems programming and 1970s and 1980s hardware using the rs1541 crate.

Rocking Rust - Using Rust to access Commodore disk drives - floppies rock ep14

In this episode, I show how to use Rust and my new rs1541 crate to easily access Commodore disk drives using the coolest language on the planet.

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Timestamps

00:00 Intro
01:51 11 lines of Rust
07:34 Accessing a IEEE-488 drive
08:10 Async
10:03 rs1541 internals
11:50 Other examples
12:05 Wrap-up

rs1541 source code is here: https://github.com/piersfinlayson/rs1541
The rs1541 crate is here: https://crates.io/crates/rs1541
And Rust docs are here: https://docs.rs/crate/rs1541/latest

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