I don’t begrudge the licence payment, as I’m very happy for people to be remunerated for their work. You needed to licence the firmware from him, but even with that cost, it was significantly cheaper than the dedicated HxC hardware. Then the author of the HxC system also ported his firmware to the Gotek hardware. Some Amiga users worked out how to flash the firmware to expand it to work with the Commodore Amiga computer (and named the revised firmware Cortex). This originally emulated just PC-style floppies. That was originally on dedicated hardware.īut then the Gotek floppy emulator came on the market, a cheap and cheerful piece of hardware from the Far East. At the time, the emulator that was compatible with the most different retro disk formats was the HxC. I constructed my USB floppy emulator last year as part of the Retro Challenge. Today it was time for a different approach. This meant I couldn’t use a physical drive at the same time as the emulator (for example to copy files between real and virtual disks) as the computer couldn’t select between the drives.

In my last post, I had tried to get my Gotek/HxC USB floppy emulator working reliably with my Osborne computer.įor some reason the drive select signals from the Osborne weren’t getting through correctly to the Gotek/HxC. This is part of a series of posts for the Retro Challenge 2018/04.

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