#gotek

[mingos-commodoreblog]

Amiga 500 Boot Selector

[techav]

I suggested previously that a Gotek floppy emulator would probably be the easiest way to get this old Sanyo MBC-1000 booted and running again. Turns out that was even easier than I expected.

The first thing I did was reflash the Gotek with FlashFloppy to add support for more image and drive types. FlashFloppy doesn't directly support Teledisk images, but the HxC software can convert them into something both FlashFloppy and HxC can use on a Gotek. I only needed a normal 34-pin ribbon cable for the mainboard interface, and I cobbled together a USB power adapter.

And ... that was it. The computer booted right into CP/M 2.2 without any complaints.

I do still want to try developing some new hardware for this machine. Now that I have a proper operating system with BASIC and an assembler, development should go much smoother.

[unixyouth]

Using a Nintendo Famicom Disk Drive enclosure I purchased in Sapporo as a case for a gotek floppy emulator on an Amstrad CPC 6128

[koney-scanlines]

Commodore -Amiga 3000 (1990) With GOTEK Drive

[thisisrealy2kok]

Gotek / Asystematik – TNL 14 (2003)

[indieretronews]

FlashFloppy - The BIG 1.0 release of a FREE and OPEN Gotek firmware!

And so this week Keir Fraser has announced the first BIG 1.0 release update of his FREE and OPEN Gotek firmware, which will not only read and write ADF and HFE images, but as of today no manual disk swapping at all with a new auto swap feature!

[mingos-commodoreblog]

Tutorial: The Gotek drive in detail – Part 5 – Internal or external? (German)

[mingos-commodoreblog]

The Gotek drive in detail - Part 4 - Gotek Mods (German Tutorial)