Gotek Floppy emulators and Amiga computers now working together! :)

[amigaosx]

Very bad soldering i thought

The two yellow track are i think touching themselves at red point :

I'll check those soldering points.

Originally Posted by robinsonb5

I think your problem is just that you're using the wrong kind of buzzer. You have one with active buzzer circuitry, designed to emit a tone when power is applied - you need the simpler type, which just acts as a speaker, leaving the transistor to generate the actual buzz.

Can you point me to a buzzer that'll work? I've checked ebay, but all the buzzers looks the same to me. If you can povide me a link to the ebay item I'll be more than happy, since I'm located in Uruguay and ebay is the best option to buy these kind of items for me. Thanks.

[solarice]

Find the datasheet for the buzzer if you can to check if its the correct type.

Also maybe the transistor is faulty? Are you using the same transistor or a different one, if different check to makes sure the emitter, base, collector are the same way around.

I'm using the Hycom HY-05 Buzzer on mine works between 3v and 8v. 5v rated.

I've ended up putting a 100 ohm resistor in between the speaker and +ve just to bring the volume down a bit to where its close enough to original drive for it not to annoy me.

[RetroPaul]

Originally Posted by Vot

Wouldn't program for me under windows 7 i had to use xp

Just had another try with an Win XP VM and it worked! I found i had to set the baud rate to 57600 and do a reset before it picked it up. Think I'll buy a couple more now for my other Amigas

[amigaosx]

I've checked the soldering point and they're fine, a mess but fine.
Then I've replaced the buzzer with a small laptop speaker that I had and now it's working, but the sound is REALLY low!

Originally Posted by solarice

Find the datasheet for the buzzer if you can to check if its the correct type.

Also maybe the transistor is faulty? Are you using the same transistor or a different one, if different check to makes sure the emitter, base, collector are the same way around.

I'm using the Hycom HY-05 Buzzer on mine works between 3v and 8v. 5v rated.

I've ended up putting a 100 ohm resistor in between the speaker and +ve just to bring the volume down a bit to where its close enough to original drive for it not to annoy me.

thanks for your suggestions, I think is just the buzzer that's not the right type.
Will this one work? http://www.ebay.com/itm/20pcs-16R-16...item3f39a94c38

[solarice]

They might work, hard to say for the description tbh.

[robinsonb5]

Originally Posted by amigaosx

Will this one work? http://www.ebay.com/itm/20pcs-16R-16...item3f39a94c38

I won't say definitely yes, but I think it will.
The description says "passive" and "AC", both of which are good indicators that it's just a tiny speaker, and doesn't have any buzzer circuitry built in.

[ADz]

Originally Posted by kipper2k

Here is an updated buzzer mod....

Would this be any good?

[mikele]

http://www.ebay.de/itm/Amiga-Gotek-U...item4adae73953

http://www.ebay.de/itm/Amiga-Gotek-U...item233f4f0687

take a look above, how these GREEDY GERMANS are milking morons not aware of actual Gotek prices! Heard that H.W is discouraged from making any further updates.

[RetroPaul]

Originally Posted by mikele

http://www.ebay.de/itm/Amiga-Gotek-U...item4adae73953

http://www.ebay.de/itm/Amiga-Gotek-U...item233f4f0687

take a look above, how these GREEDY GERMANS are milking morons not aware of actual Gotek prices! Heard that H.W is discouraged from making any further updates.

I just ordered 2 more for my A500/A600 for £12 each! It's pretty easy to flash them yourself, just need some patience to find a setup that works. Its tempting to buy a load, flash them and sell them at cost price to kill off these profiteers.

[Whitesnake]

Originally Posted by Baboon

If that isn't too much trouble for you then that would be great.

From what I can tell the Gotek Floppy Emulator doesn't work with the Analogic / WSI Disk Drive interface.

I flashed the Gotek with "1.05a 2K14/03/30" and put the SELECTOR.ADF on a FAT32 flash drive and it just blinks continuously after a couple of green light flashes from the Gotek at boot.

I have tried 5 different USB Flash drives and other Mass Storage devices, CF,SD, MP4 Player all act the same.

I'm not sure if alexh was successful or not as I didn't see a follow up to your request.

If I had to guess a reason it would be that the Analogic / WSI interface accepts standard PC disk drives and makes them compatible with the Amiga CD32, So inserting a flashed Gotek drive would be like putting an Amiga disk drive in the interface and that probably wouldn't work either.

So some kind of alternative firmware would be required here I think.


EDIT: I forgot to mention there is a pin header inside the Analogic / WSI floppy interface, I'm not sure what it is for but it might be for changing the compatibility regarding which kind of floppy drive you use.

[Den]

I'm happy, this morning I received the Gotek drive I ordered on August 30. Item only took 7 days from Hong Kong to France!

Trouble is... I'm still waiting for the TTL USB thingy I ordered on the same day from a guy in Paris...

[Arnie]

Originally Posted by Whitesnake

If I had to guess a reason it would be that the Analogic / WSI interface accepts standard PC disk drives and makes them compatible with the Amiga CD32, So inserting a flashed Gotek drive would be like putting an Amiga disk drive in the interface and that probably wouldn't work either.

Would a non flashed Gotek Work then?

[Whitesnake]

Originally Posted by Arnie

Would a non flashed Gotek Work then?

I considered that, But I don't have the original Gotek firmware to flash back.

The original Gotek firmware uses .img files so you would have to convert .adf to .img assuming there is a tool to do that. I don't think the SELECTOR.ADF would work either as it most likely relies on the custom firmware to pull a directory listing from the USB stick plugged into the Gotek.

So if it does work you'd be stuck with cycling through the disk images via buttons on the Gotek which is not really an elegant solution for hundreds of games and memorising their slots.

I believe people with A4000's are not having any luck either as it also uses 1.44mb floppy drives. I guess any Amiga hardware that has a 1.44mb floppy on DF0: is not going to work here.

[Arnie]

Steady sells an adapter that lets you use 1.44mb floppy drives on the Amiga.

[robinsonb5]

Originally Posted by Whitesnake

I considered that, But I don't have the original Gotek firmware to flash back.

Even if you used whatever adapters were necessary to make the drive signal-compatible with the Amiga, the original Gotek firmware won't be able to serve up anything other than a 720k / 1.4mb MS-DOS formatted disk image.

[Whitesnake]

Originally Posted by Arnie

Steady sells an adapter that lets you use 1.44mb floppy drives on the Amiga.

That is essentially what the Analogic Floppy Interface already does, it doesn't work with standard Amiga Floppy Drives.

[Arnie]

I spotted this on e-bay.....

http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/Amiga-exte...item19f1e00206

[Supamax]

Originally Posted by Arnie

Steady sells an adapter that lets you use 1.44mb floppy drives on the Amiga.

Using Stedy's adapter, the HD floppy drive is seen by Amiga as a normal DD drive, am I right?

[Vot]

Originally Posted by Arnie

I spotted this on e-bay.....

http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/Amiga-exte...item19f1e00206

Whilst functional that has to be one of the ugliest things I've ever seen.

[Arnie]

Originally Posted by Supamax

Using Stedy's adapter, the HD floppy drive is seen by Amiga as a normal DD drive, am I right?

Correct.