Subj : Re: Floppy Emulator
To   : Lordwoodoo
From : kirkspragg
Date : Wed Jun 18 2025 21:59:04

 Lo>  > Anyone have/use one of these Gotek floppy emulators? I just picked one 
 Lo>  > the cheap (20$ USD) and plan on installing it in this AMD k2 system I j
 Lo>  > got.
 Lo> 
 Lo>  Do you think we can use these Gotek as a floppy boot disk installer
 Lo> (emulating  the floppy at boot startup)? For exemple: to install MSDOS
 Lo> or Windows 3.1? It  would save a lot of time to have a whole selection
 Lo> of floppy images stored on  the Gotek, and be able to do this kind of
 Lo> things. Saving Floppy Disks at the  same time..
 Lo> 

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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