To get them to work people have had to rewrite the os for the arm processor for certain types of machine as the gotek is coded for dos type interface and floppy tracks
Now they can be set to shugart and always have been as they have jumpers but you also have to buy specific floppy disk sizes as the firmware is written with either 720k or 144
Now there are lots of devices that use the dos standard like yamaha akai
But a lot used there own floppy format and so they could squeeze 800k onto a 720k disk by using different tracks and bytes depth
The problem with the goteks is there is no way to tell the arm processor it needs to change how it reads and sends the data to the machine how the machine expects it
Unlike the hxc which has a hfe file in its root directory that has the information so that any image file can be read and can be sent correctly
Now these instruments are investments and £100 is not expensive if it makes your life easier but with the fz1 you dont need it as you can dump samples a full 2mb will take a few minutes time for a cup of tea
Like we used to do in the 80,s and 90,s which would give us a break and time to reflect on what we are doing
I have scsi to cf internal drives in all my scsi capable devices because of ease of use cost never came into it as time is money in making music
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From: "reubenfinger@gmail.com [Casio_FZ_Samplers]" <Casio_FZ_Samplers@yahoogroups.com>
Date: 17/01/2015 12:24 (GMT+00:00)
To: Casio_FZ_Samplers@yahoogroups.com
Subject: [Casio_FZ_Samplers] Re: Optional Software
Ahhh Hell right under my very nose, Thank You so much George, you're a legend
@Lee Borrell There is talk of the GOTEK emulators working for things like the Atari St, Amiga and other samplers, and they are a cheaper alternative to the HXC, but the contra argument to those has always been that you're all on your own as there is no real support, and that as yet noone has come forward to state categorically that they work with the FZ series, although in theory, as long as you get the right floppy emulation (shugart) it should be doing the same thing.
