Transform your Commodore 1541 disk drive into a WiFi-enabled storage device! Watch as I merge 1980s computing with modern networking, letting you access classic floppies from any Linux PC without wires.

Adding WiFi to a 40 year old Commodore disk drive - floppies rock ep16

In this episode, I went a bit mad, and installed an xum1541 and Raspberry Pi Zero W into one of my Commodore 1541 disk drives. I then accessed it from my Linux PC using a few different Rust projects. See below for links to the source code.

Timestamps

00:00 Intro
00:36 1541 access via WiFi
01:52 Mount as a linux filesystem
03:08 Access 2 drives via WiFi
04:17 Harware modifications
05:18 Software overview
06:47 Further thoughts

xum1541 source code is here: https://github.com/piersfinlayson/xum1541

  • To build the software for your own WiFi 1541 follow intructions in docs/REMOTE.d

rs1541 source code is here: https://github.com/piersfinlayson/rs1541

  • To run the CLI, use cargo run –examples cli – –remote –remote-addr your-drive

The rs1541fs source code is here: https://github.com/piersfinlayson/rs1541fs

  • This includes 1541fsd and 1541fs shown in the video

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