Amiga 1200 DF0 Switcher | Amiga mod made by a complete amateur

Earlier this year I purchased a Gotek floppy drive emulator for use with my Amiga 1200. I got a bit frustrated with not being able to use it as the Amiga's internal drive though (without replacing the drive, which I didn't want to do), as it meant I couldn't load many games.

I couldn't find any solutions on the net, so I made my own - a DF0: Switcher (DF0 being the Amiga's name for the primary floppy disk drive) that I believe will work with any of the main models of Amiga.

I've made this video about how I put it all together, but as I'm a rank amateur when it comes to electronics and soldering I'm really proud of this. Hey, maybe you could try it too?

Funnily enough as I was putting the finishing touches to this video I mentioned the mod on the Amiga Facebook group and found many other people have done this same mod. Guess I'm unknowingly following in experienced footsteps.

Enjoy the video anyway!

[Nightshft]

Very nice and congrats! "Must not damage the Amiga" is also my restraint for a gotek. I currently have 3 different Amigas with working floppies and all without Gotek. Will consider this mod, thanks for sharing!

[Caddy]

nice, just randomly bought a gotek and was looking for this exact info. cheers fella.

[MikeyGRetro]

Good video. Well done. Looks like you learnt alot from the project and enjoying the efforts.

[ojbeez]

riscman on ebay has just release the DF1 / DF0 bracket / fasica...looks like you could do with one!!!

[jimfella]

Great video, really clear and I like the honesty of the complete novice approach, gives me confidence to give this a try myself. Any deas why the DF0 selectors commonly around on ebay don't work on the 600 or 1200?

[jarekw.]

I tried to make such a modification, unfortunately it didn't work for me. While looking for solutions on the Internet, I found your movie. Just like you, I made the switch on pin 10. Unfortunately, gotek doesn't boot. To be sure that the ribbon is properly made I swapped the drives. The floppy drive always boots (of course in the appropriate switch position), gotek never (returns to the kickstart start image). When only gotek is connected - it boots as needed. Differences to your configuration: Amiga 500 (kickstart 1.3), fdd is a modified ALPS (DS0 jumper closed inside). Do you have any idea why my setup isn't working? Thank you in advance.

[mogouk]

Great Video, where did you purchase your soldering lamp/magnifyer from? thanks!

[BlackDuke]

Honest question. Would pressing both mouse buttons while turning it on and selecting DF1 as boot device not achieve the same result?

[bryanwaters]

I'm wanting to do this to my 1200 & Gotek, you made it look easy (dunno if I can do it). Have you thought of making these cables up. I surely would buy one if you did

[osscar]

great work, so is it just a case of switching wire 10 from one drive to the other ?