[rescue] CBM 1541 to Mac?

Barry Callahan barryc at rjlsystems.com
Mon Feb 7 09:29:55 CST 2011


There are several solutions out there. If you want to be able to write 
to the disks as well as read them, your options decrease significantly, 
though.

I think you might be thinking of the catweasel. It's the most commonly 
referenced beastie.

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On 02/07/2011 09:52 AM, gsm at mendelson.com wrote:
> On Mon, Feb 07, 2011 at 03:20:23PM +0100, Joost van de Griek wrote:
>> Which boils the question down to:
>> Does anyone here know of a way to transfer the contents of Commodore
>> 1541 floppies to a Mac without firing up the C64?
>
> I don't have one but looking around the web I found one that uses a PC 
> disk
> drive (1.2m 5 1/4) and connects to a USB port. It came with software for
> Windows, Linux and Mac.
>
> You could buy the board bare and use your own floppy and case, or put it
> inside your PC. I think they were also selling external cases to put the
> board and drive in.
>
> Now if I can only find that link......
>
> Geoff.


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