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Gotek (Cortex) USB Floppy Disk Drive Emulator

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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source: cortexamigafloppydrive.wordpress.com

  1. June 19th, 2014 at 03:02 | #1

    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

  2. June 19th, 2014 at 10:31 | #2

    @Rene

    Hi René

    All Gotek drives are based on the same hardware, any version should be compatible.

    Dave.

  3. June 22nd, 2014 at 18:54 | #3

    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!

  4. June 23rd, 2014 at 11:36 | #4

    @Fireb0y

    Hi FireB0y

    It ‘s very different, i think it’s better if you ask on the official page.

    http://cortexamigafloppydrive.wordpress.com/

  5. Max
    September 29th, 2014 at 22:06 | #5

    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

  6. Max
    September 29th, 2014 at 22:07 | #6

    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

  7. HellRaiser
    December 31st, 2014 at 15:05 | #7

    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

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