#flashfloppy — Public Fediverse posts
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Amiga Gotek Upgrade Reuses a Broken External Drive
#Amiga #Gotek #FlashFloppy #CommodoreAmiga #Amiga1200 #RetroComputing #ChrisEdwardsRestoration
https://theoasisbbs.com/amiga-gotek-upgrade-reuses-a-broken-external-drive/?fsp_sid=11206 -
Amiga Gotek Upgrade Reuses a Broken External Drive
#Amiga #Gotek #FlashFloppy #CommodoreAmiga #Amiga1200 #RetroComputing #ChrisEdwardsRestoration
https://theoasisbbs.com/amiga-gotek-upgrade-reuses-a-broken-external-drive/?fsp_sid=11206 -
GTi Simplifies Gotek Disk Image Browsing
#Amiga #CommodoreAmiga #Gotek #GTi #FlashFloppy #Amiga1500 #Amiga2000 #RetroComputing #VintageComputing #WranglerAmiga
https://theoasisbbs.com/gti-simplifies-gotek-disk-image-browsing/?fsp_sid=10961 -
GTi Simplifies Gotek Disk Image Browsing
#Amiga #CommodoreAmiga #Gotek #GTi #FlashFloppy #Amiga1500 #Amiga2000 #RetroComputing #VintageComputing #WranglerAmiga
https://theoasisbbs.com/gti-simplifies-gotek-disk-image-browsing/?fsp_sid=10961 -
GoDRIvE1200 PRO Keeps the Amiga 1200 Floppy Drive
#Amiga1200 #GoDRIvE1200PRO #DigitalRetroBay #Retro4U #Amiga #RetroComputing #ADF #FlashFloppy
https://theoasisbbs.com/godrive1200-pro-keeps-the-amiga-1200-floppy-drive/?fsp_sid=7481 -
GoDRIvE1200 PRO Keeps the Amiga 1200 Floppy Drive
#Amiga1200 #GoDRIvE1200PRO #DigitalRetroBay #Retro4U #Amiga #RetroComputing #ADF #FlashFloppy
https://theoasisbbs.com/godrive1200-pro-keeps-the-amiga-1200-floppy-drive/?fsp_sid=7481 -
GoDrive Pro Review: Yawning Angel Retro Checks Out Digital Retro Bay’s Amiga Drive Emulator
#Amiga #GoDrivePro #DigitalRetroBay #YawningAngelRetro #Amiga1200 #Amiga600 #FlashFloppy #RetroComputing #CommodoreAmiga
https://theoasisbbs.com/godrive-pro-review-yawning-angel-retro-checks-out-digital-retro-bays-amiga-drive-emulator/?fsp_sid=3849 -
GoDrive Pro Review: Yawning Angel Retro Checks Out Digital Retro Bay’s Amiga Drive Emulator
#Amiga #GoDrivePro #DigitalRetroBay #YawningAngelRetro #Amiga1200 #Amiga600 #FlashFloppy #RetroComputing #CommodoreAmiga
https://theoasisbbs.com/godrive-pro-review-yawning-angel-retro-checks-out-digital-retro-bays-amiga-drive-emulator/?fsp_sid=3849 -
Denise Mini-ITX Amiga: A Real A500+ Squeezed Into a Lunchbox
#Amiga #Amiga500 #Amiga500Plus #RetroComputing #MiniITX #HardwareHacking #VintageComputing #Gotek #FlashFloppy #TerribleFire #ZorroII #HackBuildRestore #AmigaBelfast
https://theoasisbbs.com/denise-mini-itx-amiga-a-real-a500-squeezed-into-a-lunchbox/?fsp_sid=1988 -
Denise Mini-ITX Amiga: A Real A500+ Squeezed Into a Lunchbox
#Amiga #Amiga500 #Amiga500Plus #RetroComputing #MiniITX #HardwareHacking #VintageComputing #Gotek #FlashFloppy #TerribleFire #ZorroII #HackBuildRestore #AmigaBelfast
https://theoasisbbs.com/denise-mini-itx-amiga-a-real-a500-squeezed-into-a-lunchbox/?fsp_sid=1988 -
Finally convinced myself to buy a #gotek so I can emulate these dreaded HP floppy drives before my Sony MP-F52W-30 gives out.
Will be an interesting exercise to get the config going with #flashfloppy
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The family of Gotek floppydrives with an 1.3 Oled is complete.
1.3 Oled display Goteks with Rotary encoder and buzzer are now available for :
Amiga 2000 Internally (3,5 bay)
Amiga (Family) external
Atari ST (family) External
Philips MSX 8235
Philips MSX 8250/55/80
5,25 for PC
5,25 with a jog shuttle for PC#gotek #flashfloppy #MSX #atari #amiga #Commodore #retrocomputing #gotekretro
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This GoDRIvE is a clone of the Gotek USB floppy disk emulator, but specifically designed for the #Amiga and with a pass-through connector to the original floppy drive. Like the Gotek drive, it also uses the open source #flashfloppy firmware.
It's too bad I'd need to purchase two different GoDRIvE models for my A500 and my A4000, and they're pricey.
https://digitalretrobay.co.uk/products/
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This GoDRIvE is a clone of the Gotek USB floppy disk emulator, but specifically designed for the #Amiga and with a pass-through connector to the original floppy drive. Like the Gotek drive, it also uses the open source #flashfloppy firmware.
It's too bad I'd need to purchase two different GoDRIvE models for my A500 and my A4000, and they're pricey.
https://digitalretrobay.co.uk/products/
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These Gotek floppy emulators with preloaded #FlashFloppy firmware can come in Beige and in Gray, but "Yellowed" Beige is the most popular color 😆
https://www.ebay.com/itm/335998129043
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These Gotek floppy emulators with preloaded #FlashFloppy firmware can come in Beige and in Gray, but "Yellowed" Beige is the most popular color 😆
https://www.ebay.com/itm/335998129043
#vintagecomputing #retrocomputing #amiga -
Heute ein wenig Bastelei für die #Revision am Wochenende. Bin mir noch nicht sicher, welches System ich dieses Jahr mitnehme. Wenn ich den #FlashFloppy Emulator für das Gotek Laufwerk geflashed bekomme, wird es vielleicht ein CPC 664 - wobei ich die Keyboard Matrix nochmal anschauen müsste. Mal sehen.
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Heute ein wenig Bastelei für die #Revision am Wochenende. Bin mir noch nicht sicher, welches System ich dieses Jahr mitnehme. Wenn ich den #FlashFloppy Emulator für das Gotek Laufwerk geflashed bekomme, wird es vielleicht ein CPC 664 - wobei ich die Keyboard Matrix nochmal anschauen müsste. Mal sehen.
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@rc2014 IIRC, I had to make one a while ago to flash the #FlashFloppy firmware on the #Gotek floppy emulator, so they may not be totally useless and still very much #retrocomputing related 😉
Now, 75 of them... -
@rc2014 IIRC, I had to make one a while ago to flash the #FlashFloppy firmware on the #Gotek floppy emulator, so they may not be totally useless and still very much #retrocomputing related 😉
Now, 75 of them... -
Anyone up for a game of #Zork on a GM905 system from #GeminiMicrocomputers featuring a #z80 processor, 64K memory and dual #gotek floppy emulators running #FlashFloppy? Eh? 😜
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Anyone up for a game of #Zork on a GM905 system from #GeminiMicrocomputers featuring a #z80 processor, 64K memory and dual #gotek floppy emulators running #FlashFloppy? Eh? 😜
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No backup, no mercy.
I'm currently copying all the previously installed programs from the HDD back to floppy disk images. Cheers and thanks to the inventors of the #FlashFloppy software.
#RetroComputing -
No backup, no mercy.
I'm currently copying all the previously installed programs from the HDD back to floppy disk images. Cheers and thanks to the inventors of the #FlashFloppy software.
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The #Gotek floppy emulator installed on the #Amiga 4000 just fried my USB stick with all my ADF files on it! 🔥
Good thing I smelled it burning and removed it right away. Also: I still have the ADF files on my laptop 😌
The #flashfloppy firmware still runs on the Gotek, but doesn't detect another known-good USB stick 😟
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The #Gotek floppy emulator installed on the #Amiga 4000 just fried my USB stick with all my ADF files on it! 🔥
Good thing I smelled it burning and removed it right away. Also: I still have the ADF files on my laptop 😌
The #flashfloppy firmware still runs on the Gotek, but doesn't detect another known-good USB stick 😟
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If you're a Flashfloppy/Gotek user, and have several different types of them around: *don't* keep your config file on any USB stick you'd want to share between drives. Unless you want all of your drives to be configured the same, which could mean upside-down displays and non-working controls ...
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If you're a Flashfloppy/Gotek user, and have several different types of them around: *don't* keep your config file on any USB stick you'd want to share between drives. Unless you want all of your drives to be configured the same, which could mean upside-down displays and non-working controls ...
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Apparently, it is possible to buy a pre-flashed Gotek to work with #Tektronik #TDS700 #TDS600 scopes. For 170€ incl. shipping.
Lets see if I can do this for ~40€.
Ingredients:
1. #Gotek SFRM72-DU26 (~33€ shipped)
2. #flashfloppy firmware to make it 1.44 MB
3. OLED display (2.5€ shipped) 128x32px
4. 26 pin 1 mm "type B" 200 mm flat flex (3.5€ shipped)The flat flex is required to reverse the pinning.
The OLED is optional but cheap and a huge debugging aid.
Flashfloppy can be flashed with two USB-A to USB-C cables, an USB-C extension Adapter (A to A cable) and a piece of wire, so basically free (had the parts handy).The flat flex will arrive at ~end of december. So maybe this will be an xmas gift to myself...
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Apparently, it is possible to buy a pre-flashed Gotek to work with #Tektronik #TDS700 #TDS600 scopes. For 170€ incl. shipping.
Lets see if I can do this for ~40€.
Ingredients:
1. #Gotek SFRM72-DU26 (~33€ shipped)
2. #flashfloppy firmware to make it 1.44 MB
3. OLED display (2.5€ shipped) 128x32px
4. 26 pin 1 mm "type B" 200 mm flat flex (3.5€ shipped)The flat flex is required to reverse the pinning.
The OLED is optional but cheap and a huge debugging aid.
Flashfloppy can be flashed with two USB-A to USB-C cables, an USB-C extension Adapter (A to A cable) and a piece of wire, so basically free (had the parts handy).The flat flex will arrive at ~end of december. So maybe this will be an xmas gift to myself...
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Hmm so I just ordered some #gotek floppy emulators to bring some 1990s #Tektronix scopes with slim line floppy drive to this millenia.
They should arrive in ~1 month and need flashing with #flashfloppy (the 720kB varaint costs half of the 1.44MB variant... do they charge by size??)
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Hmm so I just ordered some #gotek floppy emulators to bring some 1990s #Tektronix scopes with slim line floppy drive to this millenia.
They should arrive in ~1 month and need flashing with #flashfloppy (the 720kB varaint costs half of the 1.44MB variant... do they charge by size??)
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Prepared a spare #gotek with #flashfloppy for a workmate. He was gifted an #Amiga 500 and wants to test it...
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Prepared a spare #gotek with #flashfloppy for a workmate. He was gifted an #Amiga 500 and wants to test it...
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My Gotek is all updated and upgraded!
Flash floppy ✅
Rotary encoder ✅
Piezo buzzer ✅
128x32 0.91' OLED display ✅I had to do a little bit of minor plastic surgery to get the OLED display properly fitted. However it was relatively straightforward with time, care and a very sharp craft blade.
Next stop is my tower PC, then (eventually) my CPC6128.
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My Gotek is all updated and upgraded!
Flash floppy ✅
Rotary encoder ✅
Piezo buzzer ✅
128x32 0.91' OLED display ✅I had to do a little bit of minor plastic surgery to get the OLED display properly fitted. However it was relatively straightforward with time, care and a very sharp craft blade.
Next stop is my tower PC, then (eventually) my CPC6128.
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Breakthrough: I wrote a program that prints a line of text!
So what's the point?
Program written in #rust, cross compiled on #debian, linked with #vlink to a TOS executable {on Windows), put into a disk image on debian and executed on a real ST via a #gotek floppy emulator with #flashfloppy firmware. -
Breakthrough: I wrote a program that prints a line of text!
So what's the point?
Program written in #rust, cross compiled on #debian, linked with #vlink to a TOS executable {on Windows), put into a disk image on debian and executed on a real ST via a #gotek floppy emulator with #flashfloppy firmware. -
Still making progress with my Gotek!
A rotary encoder and piezo buzzer are now both wired, soldered and fitted.
I have decided not to use the 16x2 LCD display, just too big... Waiting on some 128x32 0.91' OLED displays - they are ordered and will hopefully arrive today.
Eventually the Gotek will end up in my CPC6128, but likely it will go into my tower PC first as I want to test it first.
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Still making progress with my Gotek!
A rotary encoder and piezo buzzer are now both wired, soldered and fitted.
I have decided not to use the 16x2 LCD display, just too big... Waiting on some 128x32 0.91' OLED displays - they are ordered and will hopefully arrive today.
Eventually the Gotek will end up in my CPC6128, but likely it will go into my tower PC first as I want to test it first.
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Having been inspired by some posts yesterday (thank you Ben G), I am upgrading my Gotek and installing FlashFloppy.
Not sure I will keep the LCD display as it seems to be a bit too big, but I was pleased that it was instantly recognised and supported by FlashFloppy.
I will be installing a piezo buzzer and a rotary encoder next...
Eventually the Gotek will end up in my CPC6128.
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Having been inspired by some posts yesterday (thank you Ben G), I am upgrading my Gotek and installing FlashFloppy.
Not sure I will keep the LCD display as it seems to be a bit too big, but I was pleased that it was instantly recognised and supported by FlashFloppy.
I will be installing a piezo buzzer and a rotary encoder next...
Eventually the Gotek will end up in my CPC6128.
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Quick #Gotek #FlashFloppy question: Can I duplicate/copy a disk image by button press...? I read something like that in this ticket: https://github.com/keirf/FlashFloppy/issues/71
However I don't see an eject menu on my FF -- using latest firmware. -
Quick #Gotek #FlashFloppy question: Can I duplicate/copy a disk image by button press...? I read something like that in this ticket: https://github.com/keirf/FlashFloppy/issues/71
However I don't see an eject menu on my FF -- using latest firmware. -
Ultimately, what got me on the right path for Centurion floppy emulator was realizing that the Kryoflux images I was looking at would reflect some unknown amount of write postcomp by the drive and media. By writing tools to inject additional write precomp into the Kryoflux image, I was able to figure out that ~350ns of total write precomp was enough to confuse FlashFloppy. Inserting a 2nd order PLL with a natural loop frequency around 715kHz was plenty to recover a stable enough clock to decode MFM correctly.
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Ultimately, what got me on the right path for Centurion floppy emulator was realizing that the Kryoflux images I was looking at would reflect some unknown amount of write postcomp by the drive and media. By writing tools to inject additional write precomp into the Kryoflux image, I was able to figure out that ~350ns of total write precomp was enough to confuse FlashFloppy. Inserting a 2nd order PLL with a natural loop frequency around 715kHz was plenty to recover a stable enough clock to decode MFM correctly.
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Thought I’d give my #Ensoniq #Mirage a convenience upgrade by swapping out the diy SD-card based HxC floppy emulator to a USB one.
Obvious fail: Having the dial and screen placed the other way around would work way better. As-is, operating the dial using left hand will block the display 💩
Is it possible to rotate OLED screen output with HxC, or perhaps better to swap out firmware to #FlashFloppy ? Any other solutions? #SynthDiy #Gotek
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I’ve also got access to the even more wallet loosening Yahoo Japan, so here’s some lesser known Japanese #retrocomputers #retrocomputing #vintagecomputing
The Hitachi MB-6880 Basic Master
https://youtu.be/L9wSx2nVa20The Epson PC286C PC-Club #Retro #Retrocomputing
https://youtu.be/WfkbL4rdTAgThe Sharp MZ 1500 #Retro #Retrocomputing #Retrocomputers
https://youtu.be/mb08hdPaOgcSharp X1 Twin #Retro #Computing #Gotek #FlashFloppy
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I’ve also got access to the even more wallet loosening Yahoo Japan, so here’s some lesser known Japanese #retrocomputers #retrocomputing #vintagecomputing
The Hitachi MB-6880 Basic Master
https://youtu.be/L9wSx2nVa20The Epson PC286C PC-Club #Retro #Retrocomputing
https://youtu.be/WfkbL4rdTAgThe Sharp MZ 1500 #Retro #Retrocomputing #Retrocomputers
https://youtu.be/mb08hdPaOgcSharp X1 Twin #Retro #Computing #Gotek #FlashFloppy
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As I mentioned it just now in a reply, I use #flashFloppy Gotek's on several machines including the BBC's, Amiga A1200 & my Spectrum+3.
I don't use usb sticks, but a #raspberryPi 0W in gadget mode.
It's better as I can write code on the workstation & just copy a disk image over WiFi without the wear & tear of moving a stick around.
I wrote a web front end so you can use a browser, but needs more work #lackOfTime