A Gotek USB floppy emulator is an excellent replacement for the aging floppy drive in a Yamaha VL1. Unfortunately, a conventional Gotek installation in the VL1 often uses a workaround that sacrifices density select in order to preserve disk-change detection. After some experimentation, I found a straightforward solution. By running one additional jumper wire from … Read more
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