AirIntake wrote on 2022-02-24, 20:23:

Sphere478 wrote on 2022-02-24, 20:20:

Have you considered a gotek? It could replace both drives and no more read errors

I cannot live without my grindy floppy disk noises.

Apparently there is a way to attach a speaker to the gotek that makes it do that.

Sphere478 wrote on 2022-02-24, 23:18:

AirIntake wrote on 2022-02-24, 20:23:

Sphere478 wrote on 2022-02-24, 20:20:

Have you considered a gotek? It could replace both drives and no more read errors

I cannot live without my grindy floppy disk noises.

Apparently there is a way to attach a speaker to the gotek that makes it do that.

Ha ha that's actually great

AirIntake wrote on 2022-02-24, 23:21:

Sphere478 wrote on 2022-02-24, 23:18:

AirIntake wrote on 2022-02-24, 20:23:

I cannot live without my grindy floppy disk noises.

Apparently there is a way to attach a speaker to the gotek that makes it do that.

Ha ha that's actually great

Lemme know if you figure out how to do that, I don’t know details but people have done it.

Sphere478 wrote on 2022-02-24, 23:22:

AirIntake wrote on 2022-02-24, 23:21:

Sphere478 wrote on 2022-02-24, 23:18:

Apparently there is a way to attach a speaker to the gotek that makes it do that.

Ha ha that's actually great

Lemme know if you figure out how to do that, I don’t know details but people have done it.

I don't have one, but now that I know about the fake floppy noises I'm considering buying one.

AirIntake wrote on 2022-02-24, 23:30:

Sphere478 wrote on 2022-02-24, 23:22:

AirIntake wrote on 2022-02-24, 23:21:

Ha ha that's actually great

Lemme know if you figure out how to do that, I don’t know details but people have done it.

I don't have one, but now that I know about the fake floppy noises I'm considering buying one.

Ask around on the gotek threads and on ultimate retro discord. I think one of the people who has done it may be there.

Cringe and fake

If I wanted "drive" noises out of any drive emulator or solid state replacement, I would rig a 74 series NAND wired as oscillator to the drive activity light/line and a speaker. Caps/resistor picked to make suitable low frequency derp derp noise.

Sphere478 wrote on 2022-02-24, 20:20:

Have you considered a gotek? It could replace both drives and no more read errors

What? I've bought all available 5.25 disks and sticky floppy labels, found the last disk box that waits for delivery in Kyiv, surrounded by Russian soldiers just to use that stupid emulator?

Ohhhh, that makes sense, Putin is after the 5.25 floppies to keep some ancient Soviet Missile/Radar/Submarine systems working. 🤣

BitWrangler wrote on 2022-03-02, 01:30:

Ohhhh, that makes sense, Putin is after the 5.25 floppies to keep some ancient Soviet Missile/Radar/Submarine systems working. 🤣

Is that a thing? It sounds like a joke, but actually could be true…. Lol

Our covert ops has replaced that with Tetris already

Now I have some time to continue 😀

I've bought cable and connectors on AliExpress plus an IDC tool. Tried a 1-port cable for my P4 build just to decrease amount and length of cables - I don't need these big edge connectors with only one floppy. Strange but it works, though I still don't know how to cut it better.

Now I'm going to make a cable for 486 to be long enough for connecting both 3.5 and 5.25 FDDs.