Comments on: Finally got a Gotek https://virtuallyfun.com/2019/04/18/finally-got-a-gotek/ Fun with Virtualization Thu, 09 May 2019 18:38:59 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=7.0.2 By: Mitja https://virtuallyfun.com/2019/04/18/finally-got-a-gotek/comment-page-1/#comment-212997 Thu, 09 May 2019 18:38:59 +0000 https://virtuallyfun.com/wordpress/?p=9365#comment-212997 but do they emulate floppy drive reading sound
they could just put a stepper motor in and rotate it around I am not sure how would they reproduce the sound accurately but this is one thing that I prefer floppy drives for

But I was always wondering can you make your own 3.5 inch floppy disk (as it has harder plastic), maybe 3D print a case and coat a circle and put everything together

]]> By: neozeed https://virtuallyfun.com/2019/04/18/finally-got-a-gotek/comment-page-1/#comment-211879 Fri, 19 Apr 2019 06:38:04 +0000 https://virtuallyfun.com/wordpress/?p=9365#comment-211879 In reply to Peter Godwin.

sweet! I’ll just have to get some more Gotek’s and replace all the floppy drives… although I don’t have all that much around these days.

]]> By: Peter Godwin https://virtuallyfun.com/2019/04/18/finally-got-a-gotek/comment-page-1/#comment-211875 Fri, 19 Apr 2019 05:34:56 +0000 https://virtuallyfun.com/wordpress/?p=9365#comment-211875 In reply to neozeed.

There’s also this firmware https://github.com/keirf/FlashFloppy with a wide range of different formats.

]]> By: neozeed https://virtuallyfun.com/2019/04/18/finally-got-a-gotek/comment-page-1/#comment-211867 Fri, 19 Apr 2019 02:18:56 +0000 https://virtuallyfun.com/wordpress/?p=9365#comment-211867 In reply to Fred.

Exxos / ERE Informatique produced some.. interesting titles, but I mostly knew them for Captain Blood, and Purple Saturn Day.

Commander Blood was a surprising thing to find, as I didn’t expect to find a sequel, but I haven’t managed to find a copy of Big Bug Bang yet.

I played Blood too much as a kid, I still remember most of the glyphs.

I chased down the following versions of Captain Blood:

Amiga
AppleII
Atari ST
Commodore 64
CPC
Macintosh
IBM PC
Spectrum ZX
Thomson MO6

]]> By: Fred https://virtuallyfun.com/2019/04/18/finally-got-a-gotek/comment-page-1/#comment-211858 Thu, 18 Apr 2019 19:13:04 +0000 https://virtuallyfun.com/wordpress/?p=9365#comment-211858 Captain Blood : A great game. I had it on my old Atari ST 😉
Ere Infomatique (the French Studio behind Captain Blood) was a great studio : Captain blood but also Teenage Queen (very interesting Strip oker) and Bubble Ghost : All game from my youngest years 🙂

]]> By: neozeed https://virtuallyfun.com/2019/04/18/finally-got-a-gotek/comment-page-1/#comment-211851 Thu, 18 Apr 2019 16:10:32 +0000 https://virtuallyfun.com/wordpress/?p=9365#comment-211851 In reply to bbslovag.

Apparently the older ones were pretty terrible, but thanks to everyone else for making it a better experience! I formatted my 8gb stick as fat32, copied the ADF over, plopped it in, and turned on my Amiga, and away it went!

]]> By: bbslovag https://virtuallyfun.com/2019/04/18/finally-got-a-gotek/comment-page-1/#comment-211845 Thu, 18 Apr 2019 13:57:34 +0000 https://virtuallyfun.com/wordpress/?p=9365#comment-211845 Welcome to the club!

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