Comments on: Virtual Floppy Drive – Part II – Testing Gotek

By: klesk

klesk — Fri, 07 Jun 2019 18:35:36 +0000

In this I agree with you. The factory program what comes with this is complete garbage also a lot of virtual floppies which boots in vmware or virtualbox as .img floppy emulator does not boot with this.

They are readable but don’t boot.

I will go with the HxC firmware at this point, shame on them!

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Sat, 15 Aug 2015 13:13:39 +0000

Hmm I think this product is awesome! Maybe the author is not using it correctly.

I reviewed it in this video https://youtu.be/taFP1J_lZBI and I am also showing you how to use it. This might be helpful.

By: calvin

calvin — Fri, 22 May 2015 17:31:38 +0000

Speaking of potential, how about HxD firmware for it? http://www.vogons.org/viewtopic.php?f=46&t=43416

By: xtcrefugee

xtcrefugee — Fri, 15 May 2015 02:16:21 +0000

In reply to xtcrefugee.

Here are some ugly but serviceable Windows batch files I threw together for extracting the floppy drive images from a USB stick image and writing them back again. This allows you to access slot 100+ on the 3 digit models without having to remove the emulator from the machine. Credit goes to Gough Lui for working out this was possible!
See https://github.com/xtcrefugee/gotek-usb-batch-files

By: xtcrefugee

xtcrefugee — Mon, 11 May 2015 11:16:50 +0000

Well OF COURSE the link provided by EMUFDD rubbishes their competition! Would you really expect them to say otherwise? Or accept that, certainly for certain uses, a device costing vastly less than their own would be perfectly OK? The Gotek has its flaws, but there are actually several open source projects around now to produce better firmware for it, and the use of an STM32 (ARM Cortex-M) means that potentially there’s a lot the Gotek could do.

By: ahelet

ahelet — Thu, 01 May 2014 14:25:43 +0000

In reply to essan. With Tajima our floppy emulator might working, this kind floppy format is made and prepared.

By: essan

essan — Sun, 27 Apr 2014 20:20:45 +0000

i buy 1 emlator usb 3 led to set on my tajima tfd2 in not working?

By: H.M

H.M — Wed, 05 Feb 2014 06:25:34 +0000

Hi,

About the Gotek drives : They are now compatible with the Amiga machines thanks to a new firmware 😉 . This one support direct read/write of ADF files !

Too see more details :
http://cortexamigafloppydrive.wordpress.com/

H.M

By: ahelet

ahelet — Fri, 13 Sep 2013 10:22:08 +0000

Here floppy emulator:

http://www.floppydrive.eu/

Special for industry,
This floppy emulator having no any protrusion components like USB memory stick
from front panel, what can make impossible installation and use china type
floppy emulators in industry equipment.
Often industry machines having special spring loaded hatch directly over
front of FDD and this making USB type floppy emulators impossible for use.

Our floppy emulator not needed special batch converter and is more simply for use.
And no any jumper at all.
This emulator is the easiest what can be made.

http://www.youtube.com/channel/UCirwbNnuo4c2Qep_qvPvUGw/videos
http://www.youtube.com/channel/UC_vY4bpVz8wEre-gF6mrV5w/videos

http://www.floppydrive.eu/

All floppy signals are implemented, support CP/M and IBM.
Emulator not having any jumper.

By: EMUFDD

EMUFDD — Fri, 09 Aug 2013 08:11:16 +0000

In reply to John Sekuj. On industrial machinery you can safely use only the EMUFDD professional emulator. Contact them at their official website. EMUFDD is provided as "all-inclusive" solution, with full help to configure, digitalize, virtualize anything you need.