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Good video but the absolute worst "music". Cummon guy. Your a middle aged man and this is vintage computers. Lose that young people noise. But again, good video otherwise!

I am trying to install this Gotek in a IBM PS/2 type 8525, without much success I would say. First I have noticed that in yor zip file there is no FlashFloppy to run, but the USB_Floppy_Emulator_1.40i. I download FlashFloppy ver 3.42 from the site however there no obvious way on how to install it. Am I missing something very essential here? Your help will be appreciated.

More, please! This is *GREAT* to get me started with Phoenix, which I've owned for years, but never understood how to use. Now, if at all possible, I'd love to see more. Maybe your own walkthrough of setting up a project to run a Bubble Sort on the screen, like one of Roger's sample projects does. Going to try to figure this out for myself, now, but would love to see even just one or two more guides to getting use from this tool. After I figure out how to compile and execute my own version of the screen Bubble Sort (Well, William Barden, Jr.'s version from the old CoCo Assembly book), I'm going to make the leap to running OS-9 (presumably the Ease of Use version) and re-learning how to operate in that environment.

Did you notice that the "Getting started with color basic" book in this video has a RED mister computer and not a Green one? Rare book i think.

Thanks for the video, I didn't know how to flip the display over.

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it's not the drive, it's the format gui which microsoft has barely changed since dave implemented it in windows 95.

I played this as a child, didn't know it's a CDX, a few years back I googled sega and couldn't find it 😅

Thank you so much! I was struggling with my Gotek. But your tutorial was exactly what I needed! Everything working as intended! Big Thanks!

for jumpers you only need DS1 for the PC .. for other systems use Motor & DS0

I really really LOVED the flip out style drive cage! Those things were great. And other units in this same case even had a place with raised spots to mount another hard drive.... With the holes already drilled.

There were a number of other makers who had the same 14 pin VGA port. In fact monitors with only 14 pins were easy to find.

I loved those cases. They were ine of my favorite cases of the era and of any brand. And by the time this machine came along Tandy sound had been surpassed by the very common sound cards that were just everywhere. And of course VGA had long surpassed CGA and the geeat 16 color Tandy graphics. So those features wouldn't make sense in this particular pc. But it is a well designed machine and had soooooo much integration on the motherboard.

Great collection , was that 1993 3 button control pad box?

Looking forward to the next video where we see what you can do with these. Do they work?

Oooo, such dirty girls! ;)

Boy they are rough. They will need some serious TLC

Do you have an MM/1? Trying to get my MM/1 to work with the GoTek as /d1 under OS9/68k Ver 2.4

So glad you made this, practically impossible to find any decent info for using this on a pc.

used to be one of my favorite games on my coco

Very very confuse, because the cdio.iso has 534MB and you generate only 4 img of 1.44MB, What is the magic? and how to do that?

SEGA CDX, Turbo Graphyx CD and Turbo Express were 3 consoles I wanted really bad in my childhood. In retrospect, they were all crap. But they were exciting crap…

This song in the back is the worst thing in this vdeo.

You do have a Sega problem you don't have enough and need more. Awesome collection

Thanks! My Gotek did not work and the display was also wrong. Creating a proper FF.CFG as you described was the solution.

Where do you get the ff.cfg??

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i think the gotek i bought is for the amiga

i have the same gotek as you exept for the older screen does not work on my 286 keep gettin do error

This video was SO HELPFUL to me as I tried to get some games installed on a trash-picked 486 via a newly-purchased Gotek last night. Thank you!!

thanks for video but what firmware was installed on your floppy ? for flash floppy is the same ?

I would like to thank you for the help!!! Finally my GOTEK is running as drive B: in my AMSTRAD 1512dd (memory upgrade to 640). It is so easy now to test millions of files….. THANK YOU!!! 👏👏👏👏🙏🙏🙏

im struggling trying to figure this out on a mac. is it even possible?

Hello my gotek isn’t getting detected,can you install this if you already have a floppy drive? As drive B? Would I need to change anything in bios?

fun videos, Did you have any problems getting the 1gb module to work? I saw you put it as auto in bios, but did you have to partition it in fdisk? I saw somewhere that the 2500 series can only take a 528mb drive max. just picked up a 2500 rsx that is absolutely mint, and want to pull out the 61mb conner which has a factory install on it of dos and deskmate.

Thanks for the video - i flat out cannot get this to work. I ordered one off of eBay from NESynth that was supposed to work with the Coco…. It didn’t. I noticed it was the “new version” CPU, so flashed it to FlashFloppy. Flash Floppy shows up on the oled, i can select a disk on the oled, but i can’t get it to work. All I get is “IO Error” from my Coco. I’ve tried multiple cables, two different controllers and it just flat out doesn’t work. I have a physical floppy that works great and used the same controller and cables and all I can get out of this thing is “IO Error”… anybody have any suggestions? I have an a CocoSDC that works great, but I’d love to tandem this with my physical drive to make copies….

when you saved the changed FF.cfg file. how do you implement it?

I just wonder... I had 3 double sided drives on my CoCo 3. Originally RS-DOS allowed 35 tracks, it was modified by some CoCo owners to read and write 40 tracks. When 720k drives came out the amount of tracks doubled from 40 to 80, again CoCo owners modified RS-DOS to read and write all 80 tracks. The amount of data on the disk increased when the tracks were doubled, however there were limitations as only track 17 was used for the directory meaning you could still only have 72 files on a disk, for the most part this was not very limiting as most disks were full before you got to that 72 file limit. Later when 1.2 5.25 inch disks and 1.44 3.5 inch disk were introduced, the data rates were doubled as each track had double the data per track. This time some people added a hardware modification to over clock the floppy controller to read and write at the faster data rates. Please note: Not all floppy controller can be modified to read the faster data rates. The CoCo's RS-DOS has a second limitation, it sees only one side of the floppy drive, however it can access both sides again through modifying RS-DOS. After modifying RS-DOS to access both sides, the system still only sees each double sided floppy drive as being 2 separate drives. Drive 0 is the side normally read and written when using a single sided drive and be formatted identically to a single sided floppy, and Drive 1 would be the opposing side of the same disk. Now for the third limitation... CoCo 1, 2, and 3's when having both single and double sided floppy drives can not tell how many track the drive or floppy has. It is up to the user to know this. If you put a 40 track disk into a 80 track drive, RS-DOS can not figure out what is going on. There is a patch for this, but the patch is one that needs to be done after the system is booted and places in ALL RAM mode. All RAM mode copies all RS-DOS, BASIC, EXTENDED basic ROM data to RAM memory then switches the ROM out of the system and uses only RAM or "ALL RAM". This can be done in 64k systems only, as 23k systems did now have memory located in the addresses need to do this. Once in ALL RAM mode a basic program would poke data into the appropriate RAM locations and would make the floppy drives double step. allowing a 40 track drive to be read properly. You could then also switch back to not double stepping by restoring the original data and there by wiping out the code for double stepping. To copy a 40 track floppy from and 80 track disk was done using special software. You would tell the software which drive was 40 track and which was 80 track, then place 1 40 track floppy into the 80 track drive, the program would copy from the 80 track to the 40 track drive. Writing a 60 track floppy with an 80 track was feasible, however it should be a blank disk. The tracks on an 40 track floppy are twice as wide as an 80 track floppy. Writing 40 tracks to an 80 track floppy means on half of the track is written to. That means reading it would be reading the new data, but also possibly un-erased old data at the same time. That however brings me to my problem. I would love to have a GOTEK if it can assign it as drive 4 and 5. This is easy with physical drives as drive select 3 becomes the side select, and drive select 0, 1, and 2 remain drive selects for drives 0, 1, 2. Select 0 selects both drive 0 and drive 1 with the side select determining which "drive". The same for drive select 1 only it selects drive 2 and 3, and drive select 2 selects drives 4 and 5. Having the GOTEK know which drive is selected by decoding the drive select. This would allow me to assign a separate floppy image to each drive, or have one large floppy image that contains each side of the floppy. In a CoCo 1, 2, or 3 that would mean two directory listings each on track 17 with the drive 3 selector telling the GOTEK which one to use.

They did not use IDE in those days. Floppies were FM/MFM devices.

I'm guessing the included dev tools are BASIC09, editor, and a 6309/6809 assembler? I was reading about the old Microware C Compiler and I would love to see if that is still an option under NitrOS-9 in order to code K&R C right on the COCO!

There are a LOT of gotek drives out there for sale that seem to be configured for everything but MS-DOS. is this because Goteks are defaultly configured to work with MS-DOS/Windows? I know they have to be configured / firmware flashed to work with a lot of other devices out there, i just figured i'd have come across gotek for windows and it does seem like in my many years of seeing goteks, it seems like amiga's were the biggest users of this and a number of MIDI synths / samplers that could use a floppy drive..

Sega Genesis CDX looks incredible

I was trying a SD2IDE card on a 486, but no luck. I can succesfully BIOS autodetect and run fdisk and format c: but after reboot, nothing is seen. System hangs on harddisk detection. Thinking about buying a Gotek drive, but is it bound to the 1.44 MB size limit?

I assume the computer you installed this in was your Tandy 2500 RSX. I'm about to install a GoTek (I will be getting the older version without the OLED screen.) into my Tandy 2500 SX/33, and wanted to make sure there aren't any connection issues when plugging it into the motherboard. I assume it's a normal floppy connection. (And not some weird format like the Tandy 1000's had, with power going through the ribbon cable.)

I use Minitool Partition Wizard which formats in Fat, Fat16, Fat32, etc.. Quick and easy.

does this also work on an instrument that needs MS-Dos floppies

Very nice

THANK YOU! I've been trying to make my modified Gotek work for a week now... FINALLY a simple set of instructions for make a disk image and how to transfer files!!! THANKS!

can a gotek like this works on a very primitive ibm pc clone that only support 360K floppy ?

I opened one of the games, and figured out that I can cycle between windows or processes using the CLEAR key, but how do I close a window/process?