How to install the Go-Drive for the Amiga , Bye Bye Gotek !!!

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In this episode . We are saying good bye to the Gotek and installing what the gotek should have been in the first place . Say hello to the Go-Drive :)

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[RayBellis]

Electronically, the Go-Drive *is* essentially a Gotek drive. It just has a special form factor specifically designed for the Amiga. It's disingenuous to describe this as "what the Gotek should've been", because without the original 3.5" bay Gotek and the fabulous FlashFloppy open firmware from Keir Fraser this product could never have existed.

[offk]

I personally went for 'GoEX' drives a couple of years ago, one for my A500+ and one for an A1200. They mount similar to an internal Gotek except they're slimline and fit perfectly in the floppy bay. They use SD Cards instead of USB and have a jog wheel with button and slim screen mounted on the case grill.
They sell for 57GBP with oled screen mount.

[OSDMVault]

Great video. Very useful thanks. I have my A1200 towered in a DIY case, so this is ideal solution but I would need to contact Digital Retro Bay to see if they can provide a longer ribbon cable

[JosipRetroBits]

Great video Steve :) Go Drive is so well designed! Cheers

[Retrou]

Great video 😊 the go drive is excellent. Looking forward to your cdtv video

[rager-]

The Atari ST needs a solution like this. Both Amiga and ST can use GoTek, so I wonder if this would work in an ST. The power connector could be a problem, though. Maybe use that Y cable and an additional floppy cable to place the board in a place that would fit.

Also, I want to say ST uses the same pinout as PC, so may have to swap a couple of pins, but wouldn't that also be an issue on GoTek? Does Flash Floppy do that in software?

[stephenwhite]

I have been playing around with a new SD card solution for all Shugart kind of floppy drives. It also is fitted internally. It sits on the cable in between the computer and the floppy drive. It can work in one of three ways. One, as a floppy emulator. Two, lets you use the real floppy drive as a regular drive and three, lets you use the floppy to create disk images from real disks that can be saved back to the SD card.
There is no cutting of the case or any obnoxous external attachments to the case required. It is all controlled via wifi and a cell phone app. You can even use images directly from the internet. Externally it is impossible to tell if your retro hardware is using one.
It should also be less expensive than a Gotek.

[chrismifsud]

Its nice but not 85 pounds nice when compared to the cheap Gotek which works great.

[warrenjenkins]

Looks fantastic looking to mod my a1200 not sure what to do with it been thinking pistorm route my self

[proteque]

Great video. I like the calm style you have! interesting tips about the go-drive! I have my gotek in external case and did a "change df0 and df1 hack" myself. but this could have worked as well!

[simonaread]

Looks like a more elegant solution than the gotek, I like the idea of having the original floppy drive still in place just for aesthetics even if it rarely gets used. Would be nice in Jessie beige 500 PLA to get a close colour match to the A1200 case.

[wonderdog]

looks like a great solution and not tough to install.

[wimwiddershins]

Nice idea, bit pricey.

With a bit of crafting you can get the gotek board, oled, encoder to work the same way.

[ukwebb]

Nice little unit but I think your statement of 'a little bit more expensive' is a bit optimistic as it's £85 and Goteks are half that.
Running the few wires for the OLED and rotary encoder out to the top is easy to do and end up with the same thing

[TheLemminkainen]

cool! would it possible to dump disk to ram swap to gotek write to image ?

[tomarcher]

Thanks but not sure why a Godrive is superior to a goteck except for a neater install. Since I'm using Big Box Amigas I cant see any incentive to change.

[VestanPance]

Could this be used in conjunction with an internal HD? Is that why you get that dual power cable which you discarded?

[Rick_Croft]

Really nice ! It's works on Escom 1200 ?

[stephenkennedy]

What is that circuit board attached to the custom chip to the left of the kickstart?

[borayurt]

Isn^'t this essentially just an ordinary Gotek hardware, implemented on a smaller PCB? I like the ribbon cable solution though.