The main issue with the Commodore 8050 and 8250 drives is: How do you get data onto them? The units use 100tpi floppy drives that are incompatible to the regular 48tpi and 96tpi disk drives used in the 1541 and in PC DD and HD drives. So there is no chance using those. However there is the ZoomFloppy, which is an implementation of the XUM1541 interface and it comes with an optional IEE488 plug! We can attach the 8050 to that, and use the OpenCBM tools to read and write data to and from the floppies. XUM1541: http://root.org/~nate/c64/xum1541/ ZoomFloppy: https://github.com/go4retro/ZoomFloppy OpenCBM: https://github.com/OpenCBM/OpenCBM 1541 only XUM1541: https://github.com/tebl/C64-XUM1541/ Support me on Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/root42 Support me on Ko-Fi: https://ko-fi.com/root42 Support me on PayPal: https://paypal.me/ArneSchmitz Support me on YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCPjFa_UZBUDzdJTIEdyGjIQ/join Music: A Little Wonder by Spino2006 0:00 Introduction + Explaining the Issues 9:27 OpenCBM Tutorial 14:35 cbmctrl 19:45 cbmcopy 26:18 Demonstration ... https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GhEqdP73-cc

There are many solutions to image old floppies on a very low, flux based level: Kryoflux, Catweasel, Fluxengine or Supercard Pro, to name a few. The Greaseweazle is a low cost, open source variant that can be had for less than 10 EUR. It is suitable to generate disk images of a wide variety of formats, including but not limited to IBM PC, Atari ST, C64 and Amiga. In this video you can see me test the device and create a pipeline for more or less easy creation of different disk images. In theory you can even salvage data off of damaged disks. This heavily depends on how much of the disk is still readable though, and you should weigh your options carefully if the data in question is really valuable, of course. Github Sources: https://github.com/keirf/Greaseweazle Scripts for Image generation: https://gist.github.com/root42/46eb09854155f68b600f563f32709785 Support me on Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/root42 Support me on Ko-Fi: https://ko-fi.com/root42 Support me on PayPal: https://paypal.me/ArneSchmitz ... https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F3uvuCrcF2Y

The city of Helmond, close to Eindhoven in the Netherlands, is a little more than an hour’s drive from my home city. So we decided to go there and visit the fantastic Home Computer Museum! It’s a giant, interactive collection of home and personal computers from the 70s to the early 2000s. Spanning more than 30 years of technological progress it is really worth more than one visit. So much to see and do here… Support me on Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/root42 Support me on Ko-Fi: https://ko-fi.com/root42 Support me on PayPal: https://paypal.me/ArneSchmitz Music: A Faraway World by Spino2006 ... https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ggDILNVtq0U

So you always wanted a Roland MT-32. Even as a kid you saw it in ads, and in the setup programs of games. But it was way to expensive. And today you still will pay upwards of 250 EUR for a working device, which is more than 30 years old. So why not emulate it? There is now a Waveblaster compatible module that will fit on many retro sound cards and which is able to emulate the MT-32 as well as SoundFont based GM and GS compatible synthesizers. Support me on Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/root42 Support me on Ko-Fi: https://ko-fi.com/root42 Support me on PayPal: https://paypal.me/ArneSchmitz Serdashop: https://www.serdashop.com/WP32-McCake MUNT MT32 Emulator: https://github.com/munt/munt MT32-Pi: https://github.com/dwhinham/mt32-pi Music: Bits & Bytes by Spino2006 ... https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Yo0I6IF8iDc