On Sep 21, 2025, at 9:50 AM, Benjamin Krein <superbenk@gmail.com> wrote:
You can get the Clonto Amiga Forever to get the Amiga Kickstart ROMs and Workbench’s. It has them as adf (Gotek will read these).
I did buy the Amiga Forever Plus edition so I do have these images. Unfortunately no way to transfer them to physical floppies though, thus me trying to get the Gotek to work.
If you want to buy yet something else I use a Greaseweazle. https://github.com/keirf/greaseweazle It is a little board you plug USB into and any PC floppy to read the magnetic flux. I have been able to read Amiga disks no problem and it does quite a bit of different formats too. I think there ar other options but this is the one I have been able to use.
Does the drive lightup at all when trying to boot? You should see some of the LEDs come on at least a little saying hey I am trying to do something.
Yes it does. Activity light comes on when the 500 powers on & blinks a couple of times before going off. No activity light when inserting/changing to a new image on the Gotek though. No other activity after the initial activity when the machine is powered on.
Yea it will only flash the lights when it boots up and when the disk changes. With mine moving the dial or hitting the little buttons will move the disk to another one and that sends the disk change message to the Amiga.
As a side note I hope you have removed the Varta battery from your A500+ and if not please do so as it is the killer of Amiga’s for sure!
I did indeed! There was very slight signs of corrosion starting but I don't think anything was actually damaged yet. I probed the traces that looked affected & they all are fine. I think I was able to catch the battery early enough & I don't think anything is broken.
Awesome! Glad it’s ok.
As per Jeff's suggestion I pulled out a Pentium 1 PC I have & hooked the Gotek up to that with the proper jumper settings & FF.CFG. Now I'm getting a drive error during POST for the Gotek drive so I'm starting to wonder if I fried it somehow. Maybe there's nothing wrong with the Amiga at all & my Gotek is just dead now.
My gut feeling is that the Amiga is ok. Things to do once you get something working is also boot with an AmigaTestKit ADF. https://github.com/keirf/amiga-stuff
I do have another one but it's installed into an Osborne that I'll have to tear apart to get to it so I'll have to do that later. Seems like a new Gotek (or 2) is in my future though.
If it were me and had the budget I would just buy an Amiga flashed on already so you just need to plug it in. But that is throwing money at the problem and I realize not everyone can do that.
By the way, Ryan, I think it was you that I bought a 1084D monitor off of at VCF East a couple years ago. You offered me the Amiga RGB cable to go with it that I almost turned down. I'm so glad I didn't because it's come in extremely handy now! Thank you if you're the Ryan I'm thinking of! :) (Monitor has been fantastic too!)
That sounds like me! I am super glad you are getting good use from the 1084D. Anyway if you have any questions feel free to email me and I will do my best to answer or indicated I am unsure. Good luck getting your Amiga back online! I know it will be a good time once it is all working again. Thanks -Ryan