Lee, I use flashfloppy.. has more features and is opensource the oled
screens are way better than the lcd

On Mon, Jul 23, 2018 at 1:30 PM Lee Olivares <[email protected]> wrote:

> Hey a GoTek, I know those things.
>
> There is a powerful (commercial) replacement firmware for those gadgets,
> HxC2001 has some extra features, LCD and buzzer support (for disk index and
> artificial drive access sounds).
>
> http://hxc2001.free.fr/floppy_drive_emulator/
>
> Cheers
>
> - Lee Olivares
> - (909) 437-0250
> - The Future or Bust.
>
> On Jul 23, 2018, at 13:07, Greg Swallow <[email protected]> wrote:
>
> Yes, they are 1.44 (diskettes and drive) formatted to 180k as the original
> 5.25" drives.
> I had to use drives with drive select jumpers and set drive 0 and 1 on
> each drive. I
> created the original boot diskette with a PC and then made others using
> the DVI.
>
> There is switching that can be done using the M100 cassette port to
> control side switch,
> but that has too much risk to the DVI for my taste. I'd rather try the
> emulator before
> hacking the DVI to swap sides on a diskette. Only hacking I might try on
> the DVI is a
> new ROM to allow SSDD. DS is certainly out of the question, but maybe some
> other features
> could be added via a new ROM; e.g. CP/M?
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Brian White" <[email protected]>
> To: [email protected]
> Sent: Monday, July 23, 2018 12:41:41 PM
> Subject: Re: [M100] GOTEK USB Floppy Emulator vs DVI
>
> You made a copy of the dvi system disk on 3.5" ?
> You somehow got a dvi and dvi-dos to use more than 180K per disk side?
> Or is the dvi just creating bizarrely formatted 3.5" disks that only use
> the first 40 tracks, or double-spaced evey other track, or something ?
> It's really using HD disks? (1.44M instead of DD 720K)
>
> I guess a 3.5" DD disk (ie: 720K, not HD 1.44M), a single side of that
> would be 360K on 80 tracks, and 40 tracks of that would be 180K, which
> would be the same as the original single-sided DD 40-track 5.25" drive &
> disk. And I think 3.5" always runs at 300 rpm whether HD or DD, same as
> 5.25" DD (5.25" HD 1.2M runs at 360rpm), so I guess dvi dos and the
> controller chip & firmware in the dvi could
> do it that way.
>

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