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  1. Finally convinced myself to buy a 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

  2. 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

  3. 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

  4. 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

  5. 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

  6. 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.

    digitalretrobay.co.uk/products
    #retrocomputing #vintagecomputing

  7. These Gotek floppy emulators with preloaded #FlashFloppy firmware can come in Beige and in Gray, but "Yellowed" Beige is the most popular color 😆

    ebay.com/itm/335998129043
    #vintagecomputing #retrocomputing #amiga

  8. 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.

  9. @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...

  10. 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? 😜

    #CPM #vintagecomputing

  11. 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? 😜

    #CPM #vintagecomputing

  12. 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? 😜

    #CPM #vintagecomputing

  13. 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? 😜

    #CPM #vintagecomputing

  14. 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? 😜

    #CPM #vintagecomputing

  15. 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

  16. @robdaemon even the 34-pin cable is just a 26-pin with extra bits to do more than 1 floppy on one ribbon [it works like a primitive bus]...

    And with you should be able to make that just work versatile...

  17. @robdaemon even the 34-pin cable is just a 26-pin with extra bits to do more than 1 floppy on one ribbon [it works like a primitive bus]...

    And with #FlashFloppy you should be able to make that #GOTEK #FloppyEmulator just work versatile...

  18. @robdaemon even the 34-pin cable is just a 26-pin with extra bits to do more than 1 floppy on one ribbon [it works like a primitive bus]...

    And with #FlashFloppy you should be able to make that #GOTEK #FloppyEmulator just work versatile...

  19. 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.

    #retrocomputing #flashfloppy #floppyemulator

  20. 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.

    #retrocomputing #flashfloppy #floppyemulator

  21. 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.

    #retrocomputing #flashfloppy #floppyemulator

  22. 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.

    #retrocomputing #flashfloppy #floppyemulator

  23. 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.

    #retrocomputing #flashfloppy #floppyemulator

  24. 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 😟

    #retrocomputing #gotek #vintagecomputing #electronics

  25. 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 ...

    #RetroComputing #FlashFloppy #Gotek

  26. 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...

  27. 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??)

  28. Prepared a spare #gotek with #flashfloppy for a workmate. He was gifted an #Amiga 500 and wants to test it...

  29. 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.

    #Gotek
    #AT32F415
    #FlashFloppy
    #CPC6128

  30. 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.

  31. 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.

    #Gotek
    #AT32F415
    #FlashFloppy
    #CPC6128

  32. 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.

    #Gotek
    #AT32F415
    #FlashFloppy
    #CPC6128

  33. Quick #Gotek #FlashFloppy question: Can I duplicate/copy a disk image by button press...? I read something like that in this ticket: github.com/keirf/FlashFloppy/i
    However I don't see an eject menu on my FF -- using latest firmware.

  34. 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