OMGotek: In other words, how not to do it Someone asked me if I wanted to take a look at his Gotek drive because it didn’t work anymore. Of course, even if you didn’t buy it from me, I’ll take a look at that drive for you. How glad…
From NOW: New version of the gotek with AT32F415CBT7 chipset From now on I will only deliver the new version of the Gotek Floppydrive Emulator. It has proven almost impossible to find Gotek’s that use the old chipset. In this case, a new model does not necessarily mean better, but…
Scarcity of ST MCUs is forcing Gotek to find alternatives The current scarcity is causing a price increase after the price increase of the ST MCUs (Micro Controller Unit), manufacturers are (or feel themselves) forced to look for alternatives. This also applies to the manufacturer of the now famous…
Gotek Large Oled Display Places A while ago I thought I had the deal of my life when I ordered some cheap Gotek drives. When they came in, it suddenly turned out to be cheap, expensive, the drives had no up / down buttons and no numeric display. So that…
Internal Gotek FDD Swap adapter for the Atari ST The ‘men of Atari’ have cut back on internal connectors on the motherboard of the Atari ST line, both for the Floppy data cable and the Floppy power cable. These are soldered directly to the motherboard and in many cases are…
So, you have installed a gotek with FlashFloppy, and now the fun can begin… or : Step 1 If you have purchased the Gotek Floppy drive Emulator via Gotek.nl, you already have the most recent version of Flashfloppy on it, if you have purchased it via another channel, you must…
In the heyday of the Commodore Amiga, many games were released for that platform. Many of the better games for the amiga came as 2-3-4 disk versions. That meant if you had 1 drive, you often had to play disk jockey while playing the game. In the current era with…
Gotek IDC-2-CardEdge adapter There are a number of systems that are not equipped to connect a Gotek drive as standard. Previously, many systems only had 5.25 inch floppy drives, these floppy drives do not have a 34 pin header but an Edge Connector (PCB contacts), so that is not easy…
Atari STÂ External Gotek Floppydrive Emulator Adapter. In the preparatory phase I have built and tested a total of 5 External Gotek adapters for the Atari ST. Based on the experiences I have gained with it, the design has been refined several times, but it now seems that the current version…
This article is based on the Commodore Amiga, but for the Atari ST and other systems it works almost the same, only the actual tooling to copy disks will be different. Converting a Physical Disk to an ADF Image to be used on a Gotek Floppydrive I am regularly asked…