Versuche gerade meinen #CPC664 mit einem #Gotek #Floppy #Emulator auszustatten. Habe die letzten paar Tage deshalb fleißig #FreeCAD genutzt und eine Halterung entworfen. Jetzt muss nur noch der Deckel passen und die Tastaturfolie funktionieren (da gehen derzeit wieder einige Tasten nicht 
. #Amstrad #Schneider
Niveau configuration cela donne quelque chose comme ça : à gauche le fichier IMG.CFG à déposer sur la clé USB du #Gotek , et à droite le fichier spécifiant le format pour la #greaseweazel , à utiliser dans la commande de lecture de disquette.
Le fichier image en lui même contient juste le contenu de tous les secteurs à la suite sans aucune métadonnée.
#retrocomputing #floppy
J'ai dumpé la disquette de boot de mon système Flex #mc6809 avec la carte #greaseweazel , et j'ai pu lancer le système avec un lecteur #gotek contenant cette image.
Le truc sympa est que la GreaseWeazel comme le Gotek permettent de définir un format de disquette non standard (avec une syntaxe proche en plus), en l'occurrence une disquette double face simple densité (FM) avec 10 secteurs de 256 octets par face.
Ça va être pratique pour gérer le format Flex double densité où le format est encore moins standard (piste 0: 10 secteurs FM, pistes 1 et suivante : 18 secteurs MFM).
#retrocomputing #floppydisk
@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...
One of the contacts is gone, and the plastic is burnt. Did the USB stick short two neighboring pins?
I wonder if simply replacing the USB connector will suffice? I'll try if I can find a broken board to rip the connector from...
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 
New video! I'm talking about boot selectors for the #Amiga showing off a DIY method and then trying out the #FireFloppySwap500, which is a super deluxe solution.
YouTube: https://youtu.be/FVRQ-UqaC3Y
PeerTube: https://makertube.net/w/fDDPnJfTC6uuPxMekEhNzK
I'm making a thing. Color is wrong and I'm still ironing our a few rough edges. But it's a thing.
Hell yeah! I managed to assemble a working 40+ years old #GeminiMicrocomputers from the lot of dead ones I inherited. #z80 CPU card repaired, Super Video Controller repaired, floppy controller configured, #gotek configured and attached. Keyboard cleaned and repaired. #CPM loads and demo program runs.
The #Amiga 500 in its natural environment: on the desk with its top off and me tinkering to my hearts content. Installing and configuring the #PiStorm and #RaspberryPi it powers. #Commodore #Retro #16bit #Computing #Workbench #AmigaOS #80stechnology #Gotek
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 ...
My #Tektronix #tds700 series scope got its #gotek floppy emulator and it works great. Its not exactly fast, but I expected this.
I did not need the "reversing" flat flex cable as the original one is the correct type.
This thing is approaching 30 years, but its not that dusty inside.
The fan sometimes makes some bearing noises (will add a few drops of oil to the bearings soon).
I am mainly concerned about the NVRAM and RTC. Both contain coin cells embedded in the package so I need to desolder them, make a big plastic dremeling mess and add new coin cells. But first I need to find out how to dump the factory calibration... this is a new rabbit hole - yay.
Eventually, I found the brains to proceed with the #Gotek mod for my HP #4952A.
The Fluke 11 is helping, and the IDC crimper worked a treat! (I'm considering a test board with 34-pin headers and a ton of LEDs. This stuff hurts my brain...)
Now, to trim the excess wires and put a few connectors on the SWCLK and 5VDC.
Also, I need to add headers to the Gotek.
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...
After an issue with an original disk error last week, we decided to go with the #Gotek.
The #CDTV is ideal for this, because it doesn't require a hardware mod for the external Gotek. Time for some #MonkeyIsland.
#Commodore #Amiga #RetroGaming #RetroComputing
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??)
The #Gotek for my HP #4952A experiment arrived.
Also found a set of 8 GB USB sticks that had one that is kind of HP blue. 
I still don't know what will have to be done to connect it, but I found a few articles that describe the required mods.
Step 1 probably is to install the HxC firmware to the Gotek, either via USB or FTDI.
