Floppy Disk Emulator Software

Floppy Emu is a floppy and hard disk emulator for classic Apple II, Macintosh, and Lisa computers. It uses an SD memory card and custom hardware to mimic an Apple floppy disk and drive, or an Apple hard drive.

I decided to throw down the $60 or so to get the Gotek SFRM72-TU100K USB floppy emulator + a pre-made 26-pin to 34-pin cable/adapter, and I'm a little frustrated that I can't get it up and running. I've read the relevant thread here from 2012, and unfortunately the images are gone, so I can't tell what jumper settings to use. I believe that I have the correct jumpers - JA (from the manual - 'set to generate READY on 34pin of floppy driver interface') and S1 ('Driver select 1') because those are the only ones that allow me to use the buttons on the front panel to cycle through the 100 folders.

I used this video to set up my USB flash drive: Still, I get 'Bad disk' errors on the SY99. The green light on the emulator lights up when I try to access the disk functions on the SY99, but it's always 'Bad Disk'. Has anyone done this recently and remembers how they got it to work? **UPDATE** TL;DR the eBay store suggested that it was probably just a bad unit, and they generously offered to send me a replacement of the newer SFRM72-FU-DL emulator, which requires no special software and allows for 999 disks. Sure enough, that one was more or less plug and play (as per this link: ).

In the interest of providing as much information as possible: Here is the model floppy emulator I bought.and the 26-34 adapter: I formatted the USB flash drive (of which I tried two) using the version 1.40i software here: I should mention that the floppy drive I am replacing used to be in a V50. And this floppy drive had issues ever since I bought the SY99 - is it possible that there is a problem with something downstream of the emulator, which would have been causing the previous floppy drive(s) not to work? A little closer still (and a little further away as well?) - I did another re-format of the 100 floppies using just the USB Floppy software, and was able to simply copy some.T0 files from my computer to the USB and read it on the SY99 without having to actually format it on the SY99. I was also able to save a song file from the SY99 onto partition 01 of the USB drive. Here is where it gets a little weird - although I can turn off the SY99, take out and re-insert the USB etc.

And still see that song file in partition 01, my computer doesn't see it at all. When I open the USB floppy software, it shows partition 01 as being empty. Also, it looks like not all of the 100 partitions were formatted correctly. As a test, I tried putting a.T0 file on partition number 46 (at the same time as I successfully put the files on partition 00) and SY99 gives me a 'Bad disk' error on #46. So it correctly formatted some of the 100, but not all of them. I'm going to try to see if I can re-format just that partition to get it to work (I tried it once but still received a 'bad disk' error). The images are down for a long time and even if I find the originals I don't think I can re-post them because I am not sure that I can edit very old posts.

Only admins have that privilege. Without getting in all the technical details, can you say which of the two types of emulators you have? The one that requires a special program to format AND access the USB stick in your computer or the one that can be simply formatted on a PC without the special program? In other words we need to know if you have generation one (pain in the butt most of the time) or generation two (much easier to deal with) of the emulator.

Alright - I looked through that post, but I'm not sure what I should be taking away from it. I have the correct jumper in place (only one jumper, at position F). The directions in post #2 are where I'm stopped - at this point, I get 'Bad Disk' no matter which virtual floppy I try. This is after re-formatting on the computer, and not doing any formatting on the SY99. Car eats car 3 hacked unblocked games.

What is strange to me is that it more or less worked, and then it didn't. Nothing changed from the time when the SY99 could read/write to the USB to the time when it suddenly couldn't any more, other than the fact that I had turned off the SY99 in the meantime. Well - that was a bust. I can't set up Windows XP mode, because it is not supported on my version of Windows 7. Although some good news - folder 00 is now working on the emulator, and for the first time, I was able to save a file on my SY99 and actually see it once I popped the USB into my computer. However, folder 01 isn't working, and I expect 00 to stop working at some point in the near future. Will continue to troubleshoot, and see if I can get my old Windows XP machine to boot up so I can try to use that.