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Gotek (Cortex) USB Floppy Disk Drive Emulator

Gotek (Cortex) USB Floppy Disk Drive Emulator

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Il Gotek e’ un’emulatore di Floppy Drive USB molto economico, circa 24,00 20,00 euro comprese le spese di spedizione e lo potete trovare molto facilmente su eBay.

Iniziamo subito dicendo che questo emulatore di Floppy Disk con il firmware originale e’ praticamente inutile per il nostro scopo, ovvero collegarlo ad un’Amiga e prossimamente ad Atari ST e Amstrad CPC. Il nuovo firmware scritto da Herve Messinger va a rimpiazzare il firmware originale, per fare questo c’e’ bisogno di una semplice interfaccia da USB a TTL Seriale per programmare la MCU Cortex ARM STM32.

Mi sento in dovere di dire che questo Emulatore di Floppy Drive non e’ assolutamente paragonabile all’HXC Floppy Emulator di Jean-François DEL NERO (Jeff) dove oltre a supportare decine di formati di Floppy e di Hardware c’e’ anche uno sviluppo del Firmware di diversi anni, ma il Gotek resta comunque un’ottima ed economica alternativa.

Per maggiori informazioni, firmware e tool di programmazione vi rimando al blog ufficiale di Herve Messinger.

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source: cortexamigafloppydrive.wordpress.com

  1. 19 June 2014 a 3:02 | #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. 19 June 2014 a 10:31 | #2

    @Rene

    Hi René

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

    Dave.

  3. 22 June 2014 a 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. 23 June 2014 a 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
    29 September 2014 a 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
    29 September 2014 a 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
    31 December 2014 a 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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