Atari ST: perfect Gotek solution!

[@OidHunter]

Great tutorial sir. I have the OLED Gotek from the same seller Jon (I met him, top bloke) but with the OLED in the drive bracket. Wish I bought this now as it's not easy peering down the right-hand side.

[@DaveVelociraptor]

Welcome back! Glad to see you didn't need to get a dremel out.

[@powerofvintage9442]

Great work. Love that top mounted display / encoder box. Also appreciate the "reverse-ability" of the path you went for installing.

[@commodoreisnottheonlyfruit]

Glad you enjoyed it. It was a fun little project.

[@commodoreisnottheonlyfruit]

Glad you enjoyed it. It was a fun little project.

[@MoreFunMakingIt]

A clean solution! Lovely work!

[@commodoreisnottheonlyfruit]

And a classic 9/10 😀

[@thetechnoshed]

Yikes! Well done! How on earth did you fit those dupont connectors through that gap? I had always assumed it needed a cut-and-resolder job.

[@commodoreisnottheonlyfruit]

A bit of gentle persuasion with a metal spudger. You have to be careful though, old plastic can be brittle.

[@keven628]

Another great video from you! Great help for me on this. I've seen all your videos. I'm currently running Hatari STE at 4MB. I installed SpeedGDOS per your video and it installed fine however, it takes me to folder that has fonts and SFPD document. Not certain where to go from here to complete this. I would be grateful for any help. I'm very much a novice. Thank you!

[@commodoreisnottheonlyfruit]

you watch this video I replaced speedogdos with nvdi , that might help. Pimp My ST, quality of life improvements, better looks and a CLI. Oh my. kzbin.info/www/bejne/Y4GweKGrlLKDgMU

[@michaelnuk]

There’s a better solution that’s only came out in the last few weeks, it’s called a GoDrive and means you can keep your floppy drive also

[@TLang-el6sk]

Where can I obtain these? Found nothing for the Atari. Only an Amiga floppy emulator with the same name but this was meant to be fitted on the mainboard and has a display case specially made for the A1200...

[@Stjaernljus]

when lifting the top off an Atari ST you dont need to bend the case, to get around the floppy drive bezel you tilt it off and on. no bending needed.

[@commodoreisnottheonlyfruit]

If I said bend I misspoke. I ment slide

[@retrosim4197]

Is that OLED display the same as the one on the BulkyMIDI-32 device? If so, you might be able to fit that inside the case now that the floppy is gone with some sort of switch?

[@commodoreisnottheonlyfruit]

Interesting idea. But quite a lot of pain. I’d have to solder the midi connections inside the ST. It using the bulky midi pcbs to create an external drive as a hotel B drive might work.

[@invers54321]

Is it possible to mount the GOTEK as an external drive through the floppy connector?

[@commodoreisnottheonlyfruit]

there are other kits around that could do that, a quick eBay search shows several. two things to keep in mind 1: some are adaptors only and so you would need a separate got device. 2: they will appear as drive B and not all software runs from the B drive.

[@OidHunter]

More important to note the ST will only boot from drive A, unless you modify several pins on the YM chip and connect a bootselector switch.

[@invers54321]

Thank you for the responses. It has been some time since I posted my question. My rationale for connecting the Gotek externally is to keep the internal floppy drive and avoid modifications that could introduce stress and damage my computer. To circumvent the issue with the computer not booting from drive B: - I think there is a small auto folder program swapping drive A: and B: - Can TOS be patched to boot from the B: drive? - Can a function, as mentioned above, be implemented in EmuTOS? Since I am not a gamer, booting from A: is not an issue. I have an Atari STE, which I tried to connect Gotek as an external drive. I have the appropriate cable, but it doesn’t work.

[@darrellvernon]

could you do me a copy of that ST ram disc ? ill pay you , great video lots of info for my st 1040 in a box that got packed away with rest of computers from the 80's thank you

[@commodoreisnottheonlyfruit]

all of the stuff on that drive and more are in the cosec collection on archive.org archive.org/details/Atari_ST_TOSEC_2012_04_23