> I use flashfloppy.. has more features and is opensource the oled screens are > way better than the lcd Good tip! I didn’t realize there was an OSS firmware replacement for the GoTek these days, awesome, OLED FTW!
Damn I paid too much for those mini LCDs and never bothered to install one anyway, such is life. :P - Lee On Jul 23, 2018, at 13:52, Gregory McGill <[email protected]> wrote: 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.
