Closed MiniXUM 1541 ... Now available for sale

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Decided to do a run of the MiniXUM 1541. Did some small alterations to put my own spin on it. Added a power light to the board, and set it up as a color changing RGB LED. The activity light I shifted over and also made it surface mount to work better with my case design. Added some mounting holes re-routing some traces to accommodate. I then designed a more sleek case to expose the MiniXUM 1541 script I put on the board.

The boards were all manufactured in ENIG (gold plated).

Available now for sale for $30.00 USD without case, $42.95 USD including case printed at 200 microns, or $52.95 USD printed at 100 microns plus shipping. Friends and Family payments please, or cover the paypal fees. Your choice.

I have 50 available, and have them listed in a couple locations.

Here are some photos of the finished product. I've listed the case color of natural/translucent as the only color choice because the LEDs shine so nicely in that configuration. If however you prefer a different case color, let me know and I'll be happy to oblige. Just keep in mind that other case colors will impede the LED's light to varying degrees.

Here are some photos.

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If you're interested, declare interest and drop me a PM.

Thomas
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Thecollector, your package is on it's way to you.

Thanks for your purchase and support.

Thomas
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The MiniXum 1541 is a USB to Commodore IEC serial adapter which allows you to connect a Commodore 1541 (or other Commodore compatible floppy drives) to a modern PC. The design is based on the Zoom Floppy board and the xum1541 firmware provided by Nate Lawson which he has kindly made available under a GNU General Public License.


The MiniXum 1541 is basically a pin-compatible copy of the Zoom Floppy board which has been stripped down to the bare minimum components required for serial IEC support.
 
Did some additional testing with NIBtools and a 1571 with my MiniXUM board.

This MiniXUM works perfectly with the 1571 serial nibbling via the SRQ protocol. For testing purposes, I selected a diskette that was always difficult for me to replicate back in the day (an original SuperKit diskette). Figured if I could duplicate this with NIBRead/NIBWrite using the 1571 and my miniXUM that should pretty much prove the test.

NIBRead recognized the device immediately, and in no time I had an image of the diskette. Darn fast too! Real interesting stuff it puts up on the screen as it plugs along. Then, I used NIBWrite, and wrote the image to a blank diskette. Again, super fast, took no time to write the diskette.

Loaded the created disk on my 64R (was the machine that I happened to have hooked up at the time), and Superkit loaded up as though it was an original. No problems or hick-ups at all.

So I can definitively say that serial nibbling on a 1571 using the SRQ protocol is a big thumbs up on my MiniXUM. Cool stuff.

Keep in mind, in order to use NIBtools with this device, you'll need to have a 1571 connected to it if you want to do serial nibbling using the SRQ protocol.

Thomas
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MiniXUM 1541 ... Now available for sale

What software do you use and how easy is it to make a disk image? I presume you can also write back to a real disk from a D64 image?
 
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Hi.

Yes, it's super easy to use. This is the software I use...

Here are the file locations of the files used for the MiniXUM


http://c64preservation.com/files/nibtools/
http://root.org/~nate/c64/opencbm-ZoomFloppy-2.0-i386.zip
http://sta.c64.org/winprg/gui4cbm4win-0.4.1.zip


I've been doing all my operation with a Windows 7 Pro running on an older Panasonic toughbook (CF-30). The software allows you to make disk images or create actual Commodore floppies from disk images. If you have a 1571 connected to it, then you can use the NIBTools software above for working with copy protected diskettes as well.


Thomas
 
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