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  • Re: Floppy Emulator

    From kirkspragg@80:774/8 to Lordwoodoo on Wed Jun 18 21:59:04 2025
    Anyone have/use one of these Gotek floppy emulators? I just picked one the cheap (20$ USD) and plan on installing it in this AMD k2 system I j got.

    Do you think we can use these Gotek as a floppy boot disk installer (emulating the floppy at boot startup)? For exemple: to install MSDOS
    or Windows 3.1? It would save a lot of time to have a whole selection
    of floppy images stored on the Gotek, and be able to do this kind of things. Saving Floppy Disks at the same time..


    Yes and thats how I use mine!

    You can also replace the gotek firmware with flashfloppy & that makes it a whole lot more functional. It certainly improves the support for floppy disk image types. Instructions & requirements for this are on github: github.com/kerif/flashfloppy

    I've used my gotek with flashfloppy 3.41 to stressfully install dos 6.2, windows 3 & 3.1 and many more apps that I've downloaded disk images for. winworldpc.com is a great place to find OS install disk images BTW.

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