F1 Floppy Disk Emulator

The Spanish hardware forge 8bits4ever surprises with another new piece of hardware.

The F1 is basically a Gotek floppy disk emulator clone. It's fully compatible with all the firmwares for the Gotek: FlashFloppy, Cortex and HxC.

It can be connected to a host through a standard 34 pin floppy ribbon cable and it's compatible with virtually any computer with a floppy disk interface (though some might require a custom ribbon cable to be made).

It can be powered by the standard 4 pin ATX floppy power connector, but also with a regular 5V DC power supply. It includes a 16x2 LCD screen display and a internal buzzer to simulate the disk activity noise.

Product info
F1 Floppy Disk Emulator. Compatible with FlashFloppy, Cortex, HxC firmwares. The unit mounts floppy disk images stored on a USB drive and it behaves like a real floppy drive. Supports a wide range of floppy image formats.

Works great with our FDC600 (MSX), our SDI1 and PlusD (ZX Spectrum)!
Attention: The Gotek clone does not includes the power supply nor the ribbon cable.

Tech specs

• Ships with FlashFloppy firmware flashed on memory
• 16x2 LCD Screen
• 1x USB connector
• 1x 34pin floppy connector
• 1x 4pin ATX power connector
• 1x jack DC power connector
• Internal buzzer
• 3 control buttons (Left, Right and Select)
• 3D printed case

Supported Image Formats (with FlashFloppy firm)

• ADF (Commodore Amiga)
• ADM, ADL, ADF, DSD, SSD (Acorn DFS and ADFS)
• ATR (Atari 8-bit)
• D81 (Commodore 64 1581)
• DSK (Amstrad CPC, Spectrum +3, Sam Coupe, Microbee and of course our MSX)
• FDI, HDM (NEC PC-98)
• IMG, IMA, DSK (IBM MFM Raw Sector)
• JVC, DSK (Tandy Color Computer 'CoCo')
• MBD (Spectrum MB02)
• OPD (Spectrum Opus Discovery)
• SDU (SAB Diskette Utility)
• ST (Atari ST)
• TRD (Spectrum TR-DOS)
• V9T9, DSK (TI-99/4A)
• VDK (Dragon)
• HFE, HFEv3 (Universal)
• XDF (FAT-based eXtended Disk Format, 3.5" HD 1840kB)

8bits4ever sells the F1 for €50.- plus shipping cost.

Relevant link: 8bits4ever online shop