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so i email him?

Send him an email worded something like this "What does it take to get the necessary items to convert a Gotek to use your

firmware. I want to use my Gotek with a TI99/4a and want to get one of your drives for its big brother the Myarc Geneve later. " to

 

hxc2001@hxc2001.com .

 

He will respond and you go from there, Here is the one he sent me;

"Hi,

Just drop me 10 Euros per one device to jeanfrancoisdelnero@free.fr.

(paypal)

:)

 

The procedure is there :

 

http://torlus.com/floppy/forum/viewtopic.php?f=33&t=1683

 

http://hxc2001.com/download/floppy_drive_emulator/index.html#stm32hxc

 

http://hxc2001.com/download/floppy_drive_emulator/STM32_SerialBridge.zip

 

http://hxc2001.com/download/floppy_drive_emulator/HXCFEUSB_HFE_V3_0_0_0a.zip

 

Best Regards,

Jean-François DEL NERO

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and crappy documentation really pisses me off..

 

1: power must be connected to the display driver pins 1 and 2. (not shown above in the diagram)

2: if you get a backlight and no words.. adjust the blue pot on the display driver board.. spent 20min checking everything twice to no avail before trying that

3: IT WORKS

 

now to make it pretty

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drive in hand

programmed with bootloader

programmed with normal mode firmware

 

now for the display.. am I reading this right that I just connect 4 wires and hook up some resistors? oh here is a nice diagram:

gotek_lcd.jpg?w=350

 

Greg

Yes- that was the most frustrating part- the lack of documentation. I drew that diagram up from the ASCII one I found in the firmware release notes. I'll have to add the power connections to the diagram. It's shown in one of the pictures that I posted, but it's a good idea to add it to the diagram too. Even after I figured all of that out, I almost soldered my LCD in backwards. That had nothing to do with the poor documentation of the Gotek, it was the poor documentation of the LCD module. I guess that's the flip side to the relatively cheap hardware. :/

 

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This is an interesting thread. Yes sometimes cheap hardware is not worth the hassle to some people, because of all the problems along the way. With that being said, it would be cool to see all this information eventually distilled down into a PDF document with photos and step by step instructions along EVERY step of the way. I imagine that could help quite a few people over the coming years.

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Yes- that was the most frustrating part- the lack of documentation. I drew that diagram up from the ASCII one I found in the firmware release notes. I'll have to add the power connections to the diagram. It's shown in one of the pictures that I posted, but it's a good idea to add it to the diagram too. Even after I figured all of that out, I almost soldered my LCD in backwards. That had nothing to do with the poor documentation of the Gotek, it was the poor documentation of the LCD module. I guess that's the flip side to the relatively cheap hardware. :/

 

Rich

Yeah i checked and rechecked before soldering on the controller. It can go above the top in front or below the top behind the lcd. Pin one is not identified on the board just the lcd.

 

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This is an interesting thread. Yes sometimes cheap hardware is not worth the hassle to some people, because of all the problems along the way. With that being said, it would be cool to see all this information eventually distilled down into a PDF document with photos and step by step instructions along EVERY step of the way. I imagine that could help quite a few people over the coming years.

For the hardware inclined though the cheaper route, can be the most satisfying :grin:

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