I recently purchased 3 of the new goteks, the ones with the larger screen, built in knob, and newer microcontroller.
The ebay seller sells them flashed to FlashFloppy 3.28 in beige, yellowed, and grey.
These are for use in my retro PC's.
When I hooked it up and turned it on, I pressed 2 buttons together, thinking it was to format the new 8GB usb stick.
What happened was the text flipped upside down, and now I get error 34.
I have been using pc's since the 80's, but this thing is frustrating due to my lack of knowledge.
Everywhere I look it says I need to use .img files, but nobody says how to create them.
I installed an old version of WinImage on a win2000 rig, and it creates .imz or .ima files.
The screen text is still upside down even after a power off, and I'm not sure what to do.
Some places say to use the 1.40 floppy manager, but when I used that to make 10 test floppies on the usb stick to try, it just says error 34.
Can somebody point me to a super dummy set of instructions to get this thing going?
Other than formatting the new 8gb usb to fat32, is there a step by step manual anywhere?
How do I create new .img files to put on the usb stick so they show up correctly.
And most of all, how the heck do I turn the screen text back to right side up?
Sorry for the rant, I really want this thing to work, and dont know how, its soo frustrating.
EDIT:
After finding this page:
https://github-wiki-see.page/m/keirf/FlashFlo … on-File#options
I added in the line:
display-type = oled-128x64-rotate
This flipped the screen!
I went back to WinImage, and noticed that the .imz I made was compressed, so I made an uncompressed .ima file, and it at least shows up on the screen now.
When I click the floppy drive in Win2k, it says to insert a disk, so still not working yet.
EDIT:
Fixed, the drive was defaulting to shugart, and not ibmpc.
The Gotek is working fully now.