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Re: Gotek 'floppy emulator' inside an AMIGA 600
« Reply #29 from previous page: May 22, 2014, 08:23:42 PM »
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Oh, my sweet Lord!  You put it in an A1010 case; dude, you could fit a whole computer in there. Why not pick up some cheap nonworking external drive off ichBay and use it, then use the A1010 case for an rPi conversion project?


 Because this beast is too damn big and too damn heavy to let goto waste. ;)

Besides, other external drives don't have the snazy Amiga check mark on them.
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Re: Gotek 'floppy emulator' inside an AMIGA 600
« Reply #30 on: May 23, 2014, 08:32:55 AM »
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Re: Gotek 'floppy emulator' inside an AMIGA 600
« Reply #31 on: June 09, 2014, 01:36:59 PM »
Got my USB RS232 TTL device on Friday and did the programming tonight.  Posted an update here:
http://www.amiga.org/forums/showthread.php?t=64691&page=3

Now have an Amiga GOTEK running nicely thankyou very much.  Time to buy another.

Happy to provide any tips for anyone thinking of doing it.  I'm not a great solderer and had 2 pairs of reading glasses on when I was soldering on the jumper pins. Some people have just used wires but I was worried I'd screw something up.
It was a challenge finding the time but fun and certainly not hard to do.

Picture of GOTEK and Soldered pins attached.

Cheers
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