Building a Pi1541 Commodore Disk Drive Emulator

Опубликовано: 14 Июнь 2026
на канале: Retro Now TV

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The Pi1541 is an open source project by Steve White, which provides a real-time, cycle exact, Commodore 1541 disk drive emulator that can run on a Raspberry Pi 3B, 3B+ or 3A+. It gives us an SD card solution for using D64, D81, G64, NIB and NBZ Commodore disk images on real Commodore 8 bit computers such as the Commodore 64, Commodore 128, VIC-20, Commodore 16 and Commodore Plus4.

In this episode of Retro Now, I take you through the process of putting my Pi1541 together and setting up the SD card with the necessary files to get it working.

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USEFUL LINKS
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The Pi1541 project home page by Steve White
https://cbm-pi1541.firebaseapp.com/
Several 1541 firmware ROMs are available from zimmers.net
http://www.zimmers.net/anonftp/pub/cb...
The C64 character ROM is also available on zimmers.net
http://www.zimmers.net/anonftp/pub/cb...
The Pibow 3 A+ Coupé case by Pimoroni
https://shop.pimoroni.com/products/pi...
The eBay listing for the Pi1541 hat (at the time of purchase)
https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/2559603589...
eBay seller for serial cable
https://www.ebay.co.uk/str/retrocompu...

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CHAPTERS
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0:00 Titles
0:16 Introduction
2:22 A look at all the parts
3:30 The Pibow case
4:20 Adding a heatsink
5:28 Assembling the case
7:40 Attaching the Pi1541 hat
9:00 A look at the Pi1541 homepage
10:46 Setting up the SD card
12:33 Editing the options file
14:16 First power on and testing
15:23 Connecting to a C64
18:00 Loading a d64 image
21:00 Outro

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