Usb Stick Floppy Emulator
May 27, 2016 It's real easy to format your usb. Put in a usb port in your computer. Click on computer. You will see your usb as a device in the removable storage sector. Don't open it. Right click on it then wait a sec. You'll see a pop up box. Click on the format icon. By use of the USB-Stick the configuration can be transferred on to the floppy emulator. With a conventional floppy disk drive settings would have to be made over a jumper or would not be possible at all. The USB floppy emulator V3 allows for a full configuration without having to either open or take out the drives.
This is a great solution for replacing a old floppy drive. It works like this:The gotek has built in 999 locations where you can place a floppydisk image. This image contains the contents of one floppy disk. These pre made images are usually easy to find on the Internet, but you can easily make a image of a real floppy disk you own.All you have to do to use the gotek, is to put the images on a USB pen drive, and assign each disk a number. The gotek has 2 buttons in the front, where you can select the disks. One for up and one for down. Lets say you want to boot from a game or program that you assigned to slot 5.
All you have to do, is to press the buttons untill the display shows 005, and the disk will load. You can press the buttons back and forth to select images, and your computer will behave as if you inserted that floppy disk.
Its a great way to get rid of those old worn out floppy disks, and great to save space.Available upgrades:-Speaker that emulates floppy loading sounds!-OLED screen that replaces the original display, so that the name of the disk is shown in letters instead of numbers, meaning you dont have to keep track of where you assigned your images.The drive itself: The drive comes new with a really bad firmware that hardly can be used to anything. So you need to circomvent the protection of the drive, and flash it with a new firmware. I use FlashFloppy. If I sell one of these, they are already flashed with FlashFloppy.Once the protection has been broken, future updates is as easy as to put the updated firmware in the root of the USB stick, and power on the gotek with both buttons in the front pressed in at once.
Usb Floppy Drive Emulator
The drive will now update itself. Be careful not to disconnect the power during this process.This drive can be connected to any computer that has the same Shugart 34-pin header, such asAcorn ArchimedesAcorn BBC MicroAkai SynthesizersAmstrad CPCAtari STCommodore AmigaDECDragonE-mu ESI-32EnsoniqGeneral Music (GEM) SynthesizersIBM PCKorgMemotechMSXNEC PC-98RolandSequential Circuits Prophet 3000SpectrumTandy Color ComputerTI-99/4AUKNC, DVKThe FlashFloppy firmware ensures that they all work.WARNING! If you connect the power cable in the back wrong, IT WILL KILL THE DRIVE.Some computers require different jumper settings on the drive.
Usually all you have to do, is to move jumper S1 to S0. If that dont work, try these options:Jumper at S1 onlyJumpers at JC and S0Jumpers at JC and S1This flashed drive can be purchased on ebay.