Gotek (Cortex) USB Floppy Disk Drive Emulator
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The Gotek is a USB Floppy Drive emulator very cheap, you can buy it from eBay at €24.00 €20.00 including the shipping cost.
Let’s start by saying that this Floppy Disk Emulator with the original firmware is totally useless for our purpose, like to connect it to an Amiga and in the near future to a Atari ST or Amstrad CPC. The new firmware written by Herve Messinger replaces the original firmware, to do this you need a simple converter from USB to TTL Serial Interface to program the STM32 ARM Cortex MCU.
I would add this thing; this Floppy Drive Emulator is not absolutely comparable to the HXC Floppy Emulator of Jean-François DEL NERO (Jeff) where in addition to supporting dozens of Floppy Formats/Hardware and the Firmware is in development from several years but it’s a nice and inexpensive alternative.
For more information, firmware and programming tool you need to go here the official blog of Herve Messinger.
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Hello guys, i’m Renix from http://www.retronia.cl – Chile
Do you know the real differences between 720K and 1.44M Gotek Floppy emulator versions…
Nice job with this firmware…
Bests,
René
@Rene
Hi René
All Gotek drives are based on the same hardware, any version should be compatible.
Dave.
Hi!
I’m Fireb0y of Vintagenarios, and i have a little question about those piece of hardware:
I have get on my hands a second USB floppy emulator from other manufacturer(do not know what brand it is, it says on its red board SMUFDDV4@1104)
This emulator seems to work closely as the Gotek, but it has only 2 digits on the display.
The question is, that the firmware solution of Herve Messinger will work on the drive. Also, there is a set of pins called P4, with the legend RST, G, d-, d+, V and G again, that i suspect are for firmware purposes.
The drive is this:
http://goughlui.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/04/IMG_00201-e1366780918124.jpg
Thanks!
@Fireb0y
Hi FireB0y
It ‘s very different, i think it’s better if you ask on the official page.
http://cortexamigafloppydrive.wordpress.com/
Salve a tutto.. allora vengo al dunque ho preso i gotek poi il programmatore.. saldato i connettori .. ma quando avado a programmarlo.. metto ponticello su boot0 e3.3v..ma niente il programma di programmazione non lo riconosce..alche ho provato resttando ..ma nulla sempre lo stesso problema. i gotek sono due.. ho provato con 2 pc con win8.1 64bit e un pc con xp..ma nulla qualcuno sa darmi un aiutoo..
grazie
Hi all .. then I come to the point I took Gotek then the programmer .. soldered connectors .. but when AVADO to program it .. I put the jumper on the boot0 e3.3v..ma nothing scheduling program does not recognize it .. auks I tried resttando ..but nothing always the same problem. the Gotek are two .. I tried with 2 pc with 64bit win8.1 and a pc with xp..ma nothing someone can give me a help ..
thanks
If you’ve connected RX with RX and TX with TX communication is not going to be estabilished. You should connect RX of your USB adapter with TX on the floppy and vice-versa