GOTEK USB Floppy Emulator Simulator Review Tutorial

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[brandonfedorick]

I use one of these in an old Haas CNC machine and I could never figure out how to access more than just the first virtual floppy until I watched your video. Thank you!

[bikesandtech]

Thank you Phil for providing the software download that can't be found anywhere else. VERY much appreciated.

[jameshanna]

I have had an old inop 486 for decades, thinking that someday I would get it running again. This week into my lap fell an additional THREE 486 computers that have various problems. Thanks to your videos, website full of data and resources, and some ebay purchases, I hope to be getting three of the four back in action. I'm pretty sure the mobo is dead on one of them.

Anyway, thanks for doing what you do! MUCH appreciated!

[MeALot]

And thanks again phil! Got the gotek emulator going... i was being clueless on how to make this work

[soufyannaouri]

You made one of the best explanation for this flappy drive

[craigkarsten]

Thanks for tutorial and heads up. Got one recently and works great. No more clunky drives and dodgy discs to worry about.

[joshwitt]

Thanks Phil, I just used this on my Super Socket 7 retro PC and it worked great!

[msdosmnfred]

A Gotek is a very good solution to replace any floppy drive. I bought recently a such drive, but mine doesn't have the ST MCU inside, there is an Artery Microcontroller inside, that's important if you plan to flash an alternative firmware to it. I flashed the FlashFloppy firmware on that device. You need only a paper clip and an USB A-to-A cable, then u can expand the possibilities of the drive and you'll can get rid of the management software, so u can put the image files directly on the usb drive, u can optional install an OLED display in the drive, so u can put your images even on Linux to the USB drive. ;)

[alnoorratansi]

Very good tutorial, Thanks so much for doing this.

[guywithgames]

Another super helpful video, just finally got around to buying one of these after having my 1000th or so non readable floppy. The gotek is awesome, and the recommended software in this video is as well.

[stableloathing_]

Picked up one of these for my retro DOS machine last month and haven't been able to get this to work properly. I keep getting general read errors when trying to read from a USB stick in Win98/DOS. Sometimes it will show the directories in DOS, but will not format, read or write. I'm using the software Phil mentioned to format the USB.
EDIT : I'm an idiot, my floppy cable was plugged in incorrectly on both sides 😂

[PhantomFellows]

I highly recommend Folder Axe for use w the Gotek, it generates sub-folders (subdirectories, whatever) from a single folder and it’ll do it by size, say 1mb or 720kb, which makes loading files to the Gotek a breeze! Worked magic on all my Sierra GOG downloads and now they’re ready for use on my 486 :)

[AmadeusRel]

Thank you Sir that was so helpful. Now I can save the midi files I compose on my Roland E-500 without problems. The disappearance of floppy drive (and floppy disk) was a bad dream for many musicians having old keyboard models. But that floppy emulator with that software saved the situation. Fast advance of technology !!!

[stutz]

nice video, thanks Phil! got my GOTEK USB Floppy Emulator today and it works flawlessly :)

[jaundicedbanana]

I just purchased one, and when I went to test it in my SS7 PC I kept getting a "Floppy Drive(s) fail" error. It turns out that you cannot run them on the same floppy channel as another drive (in this case, I have a 5.25" Floppy drive as the B device). DS1 Jumper was set.

Of course, having one kind of negates the need for the real drives, but it would allow more flexibility.

Regardless, Phil, I'm pretty sure my wife should despise you. You've compelled me into getting a fair amount of gear lately. SS7 era stuff and MIDI modules. Great videos, and great information!

[ilovealbundy]

This item is fantastic for retro gaming machines. Meanwhile i've bought 6 of them for my retro-systems, and all of them works without any issues. To bad that the software don't run under windows 98😪

[tiannaumann]

Good luck ordering these from China. I ordered two Gotek floppy emulators from merchants (and these were given good reviews by other Roland Sampler users and both times they got lost in the mail.

I'm not sure why it doesn't occur to them that their customers might actually WANT to pay a little extra for trackable and insured parcels.

I went with the HxC option from Lotherek and it went without a hitch.

[MikkelGrumBovin]

this is ecaxtly what i need for my old Akai S2000 sampler - Thanx a buch for this video, - :-)

[snume]

Great video Phil. That software looks WAY more user friendly than the Gotek provided utility. Have you tried to format a USB stick for 1000 images? You have the model which is supposed to handle that many so I was wondering if you had encountered any issues going that big. Thanks

[purana]

These look so cool. The use of them going forward maybe not too much as the older stuff becomes non existent. I'd love to still have some of the older hardware still available to me.