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Also are loading speeds with hxc and whdload games via hdd similar or different? |
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23 September 2014, 04:27 | #62 |
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23 September 2014, 04:30 | #63 | |
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For compatibility the emulation of disk speed is same as floppy afaik. |
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23 September 2014, 04:38 | #64 | |
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Whdload is much faster than the floppy emulators simply because of the way it works, the floppy emulators both have to keep the timings etc as close to a real drive as possible. Whdload games are patched to allow them to run as fast as possible from the hard drive. |
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So there is no way to play whdload games on a real amiga without a hdd i am taking it? |
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I was doing some testing with Soccer Kid, it starts to load fine, then asks for second disk, I switch to that image but it doesn't recognize it. Thing is that after some time it starts to mount wrong images. In my example it mounted Super Cars 2 ADF instead of Soccer Kid floppy 2. What I found helps is deleting everything from USB drive, filling it with some other non related files, and then deleting (or formatting) it again and returning ADFs back. After that it mounted correctly again. At first I thought it's problem with long file names so it mounts wrong ADF, but It's not really likely as it's soccer~2.adf vs superc~1.adf, not exactly similar. Other possibility could be that something is wrong with the way it locates files, either by sector so when you delete images and add new ones it goes to wrong address and mounts something from before. Or maybe it's a bug in selector, that for some reason it manages to load previous ADF list instead of current. I guess H.M. would know what could be the issue but after what happened I doubt he'll be motivated to fix it. |
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03 October 2014, 22:53 | #68 |
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I see where your coming from on all this leach stuff! The worst case of this I have seen, was a Gotek with nothing more than the second led hole drilled and the led poked through, a few fancy printed stickers and then put up at some crazy price somewhere around £150 or more... Talk about taking the wee wee This could well kill off the whole idea! Why does this happen? It kills the spirit of the Amiga imho, saying nothing about the other platforms it can work on. |
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Do you have a rough wiring guide at all? Im currently cleaning up an old Conner Tape Backup case as it is perfect for an external Gotek. The only annoyance would be having to open it all just to flash the firmware again. |
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08 April 2015, 18:19 | #70 |
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Here is mine:
[ Show youtube player ] A Gotek inside an Amiga 500... without cutting the case of the Amiga ;-) Last edited by mombasajoe; 08 April 2015 at 18:30. |
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I assume the ribbon cable is coming out thru the trapdoor? Can you post pics of your mods to the Gotek PCB and build of your cool floppy selector unit please? |
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09 April 2015, 02:27 | #72 |
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So I jumped into the world of Gotek modding recently but im finding it only works properly with FAT16 and not ExFAT (at all) or FAT32 (does weird things).
Anyone else find this? It's a PITA because it limits the number if files you have have in the root directory and of course the Gotek software doesn't support folders (iirc). |
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Thanks. And it´s cheap ;-)
Yes, it is. I haven´t added a connector yet (sub d or something like that) but that will be the next thing. Yes, may be tomorrow or at the weekend. But there is nothing special about it. |
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Here are some. But there isn´t really much to show. The "selector unit" is really nothing else but four ripped off disks with the display and the buttons inside - fixed with glue.
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18 April 2015, 12:13 | #76 |
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Complete setup with Df0: and Df1:
I have no probs reading from Df1: but writing doesn´t work (writes garbage). DF0: reads and writes perfectly. Maybe this depends on the used USB-stick? |
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05 May 2015, 11:46 | #78 |
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This is my mod I did a few months ago. Its works really good together with the standard DF0: drive using a DS-"hack".
You read about the mod here http://www.ikod.se/amiga-1200-gotek/ |
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I'm not a fan of modding mint a1200 cases but that is a very neat integration job!
I just put a gotek into an external 3rd party drive case for my a1200. |
06 May 2015, 09:04 | #80 |
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My Gotek installation
with case mod
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