I have updated the description for a way to find it that is more sturdy, hopefully.

Reply to myself :) The floppy-inserted switch is actually the one on the other side. Just as the reed for the write protection tab, this one is controlled by a magnet on the eject button. Got it recognizing that a floppy was inserted (just a cleanup did that), but it refuses to load any of the (good set of) test disks I have. Probably alignment or cap problem or all three of them.

Sometimes it's about the journey, not the destination.

​@@retrofriends so whats a journey or destination got to do with plugging a usb keyboard into your mini A500 ?

@@arnolduk123 Never heard our mantra? It is a phrase uttered by every "maker" today, and means the process of making something is just as important, often more so, as the final product. If the journey to making something wasn't fun and a learning experience, there would be no "makers", and a lot of inventions would never have been made. Artists would also be scarce. If you want to see a channel dedicated to the wonderful "journey", I suggest you check out Adam Savage's Tested.

@@retrofriends OK, I get waht you mean now, yes the fun is in the making :)

That's weird. If you have a blank thumb drive formatted to fat32, and just load it with your disk images, it should work in any flash floppy-equipped Gotek.

You are very welcome. And thank you for your business 🙂

If memory serves there's an option in the same screen where you write to it for disabling protection. Have a careful look around the software.

If you make a rom switcher that lets you pick between 16 roms using these chips, I would post it up somewhere because that would be unique. This is a simple ROM switcher using one wire to select one half of the chip or the other. Anything else would be way more complicated and beyond the scope of what I had hoped to achieve with this video.

The one I sell will work. There is a link in the description to my ebay store. I found this video, which should be very similar to yours: kzbin.info/www/bejne/d5Cwinusitp5oM0

Each host device (Amiga. IBM, Roland, etc) has its own type of image file. Being able to generate all those different types would I imagine be impossible.

@@retrofriends True, however, that's why there's a config file. All that would be needed is a template file indicated in the config file for it to replicate into a new disk image... or perhaps a list of disk image files if the system supports multiple formats. It wouldn't be impossible, it would be trivial. All that would then be needed is a menu system which says "create new disk" and if there is more than one template image file in the config, the user would select from one of the template files listed in the config file.

@@erroneus00 It sounds like a question for the developers of Flashfloppy. Join the flashfloppy Facebook group, and post the request there.

@@retrofriends I don't "facebook" so no. But there are two things I definitely know after years and years of experience. 1. I am not as smart as the next guy. 2. As evidence continues to demonstrate, if I came up with an idea, someone else already thought of it years before. I merely pointed out the obvious. But I can tell you one reason it hasn't already happened -- the chip programming environment space is probably just about full already. To expand features probably requires a "next chip" release of the thing.

@@erroneus00 The point of my reply was to direct you to the place where your ideas would get appreciated and possibly implemented. Sure, all comments here ultimately benefit this channel, but it's more important that I direct people to the correct place where they would know about additions to firmware that would be trivial to implement.

The inevitability of links 😠. Use the link or part of it in a Google search.

@@retrofriends Thank you for the quick response! I was able to find it in an old forum, thanks.

@@retrofriends Also thanks for the tutorial, I was able to flash the gotek under 20 min with an old usb cable I had. It works flawlessly on an old yamaha organ.

Its gonna be a standard coin battery, I imagine. Get the model number off it and check your local drug store.

Lol

Zero details of your symptoms makes it impossible to help (and screaming isn't helping either lol). Join the flashfloppy facebook group. I found a couple of threads there when I searched "embroidery". If you find nothing there by searching, post a new question. Good luck 🙂

@@retrofriends thank you

Certainly not a dumb question. These days with USB being fully plug and play, the connector is engineered to prevent you from shorting 5v to another pin. On older computers the DB style connectors can easily cause a short if not plugged in perfectly. I should know, back in the day I had to replace my Amiga 2000 motherboard because I tried to plug the printer connector in while the machine was on.

kzbin.info/www/bejne/mWKtZndvmd-Ya80si=Q4JJk2PWIj4aBMwv You must have missed this one.

People have done it. Go to my website and click the gotek support link. Please consider buying a pre-modded one from m :) Both links are in the description.

Sorry, I am not familiar with pretty much everything you said.

@retrofriends let's say on a 16gb pen drive, and on it, there are 100 virtual floppy disk folders. Each disk can only be accessed only at a time, so on the geotek emulator, it would be displayed 01 for disk 1, so on up to 100 Like said, just say I loaded disk one to my midi sequencer, so file loads to sequencer without problems Let's say I wanted to save a midu sequence file from the midi sequencer So, I selected 02 floppy on the emulator to be saved to disk 2, which is an empty disk So it saves to the pen drive now on this pen drive. There are 100 virtual floppys. I have selected disk 2 or 02 on the emulator. But on saving the file, the sequencer or transmission error has erased the 100 virtual floppy folders to none, so on 16g pen drive on emulator is now seen as one floppy disk 1.5 mb in size All 100 disk folders are gone when checking the pen drive on a Windows system now where, before, there on the pen drive, there were 100 folders Do you understand now?

@@lloydrobertevans Thank you for the more detailed description. I am still lost though, because I do not have that equipment, and have never experienced that issue. I do try to help as many people as possible, but the comments section of one of my videos is perhaps not the best place for tech support. Go to my website, retrofriends.com, and follow the gotek support link. Make sure you have followed all the steps for your host device. Ultimately, you will probably need to join the Facebook group and search for your issue. If no one has posted about your issue there before, ask your question there.

You have either a Gotek, cable, or driver problem. That's as far as I can go given the information provided. The gotek looks dead when you plug it in. This is normal when shorting the programming jumper.

@@retrofriends Didn't pop up, but I got it fixed somehow. No more floppys for my Yamaha TX16W :)

Closest info I could find was on the flash floppy Facebook group: "Hi, if you want you can edit your list of Hosts. Technics Keyboards and Digital Ensemble will work with jumper to S1 and firmware 3.30 at the newest gotek." But do your research.

Thank you, I will check it out

You are welcome 🙂

Oh, hello Hans. Not sure I can agree with the statement that most Amigas have hard drives, considering the a500 is the most prevalent. Keep in mind most people don't have the funds and/or ability to add or maintain a HDD on an Amiga. The easiest and cheapest way to get an Amiga up and running with your favorite classic games is with a Gotek, and best selling models have the rotary encoder. I have sold hundreds myself. That's not to say all of this applies to everyone - to each his own.