Anyone selling a pair of working OG floppy drives for the x68000? K-61432-71 is what my CZ-600CB came with, but I believe the K-61432-72 models would work too.
I've made a lot of progress restoring the DOA x68000 unit I bought in Japan - it wouldn't even boot at first, but I have everything working now except for the floppy drives. The FDDs have been partially restored - a full clean and recap, head cleaning, grease removed and reapplied, etc. They perform better now than when I got them, but they still don't fully work. They'll accept a disk, but the screen just goes black and hangs there. Eject works properly.
I'm a bit stumped on the repair at the moment. I've never worked on floppy drives before so I have a lot to learn. I'm going to keep working on them and get them running again eventually, but I'd like to just have the computer working properly in the meantime, so if anyone is selling working early model FDDs, let's talk!
PS - should also mention I've ordered a flip-flop external FDD emulator, but I have original disks I want to play as well. Ideally I'll have the best of both worlds.
Quote from: trustanchor on July 21, 2025, 08:49:48 AM..omissis..
PS - should also mention I've ordered a flip-flop external FDD emulator, but I have original disks I want to play as well. Ideally I'll have the best of both worlds.
Just to aware you, I think you'd need two flip-flop emulator for playing most games, since it support only one drive, while FDX68 and X68KFDPI2 support both floppy drives.
Quote from: aotta on July 22, 2025, 02:18:07 AMQuote from: trustanchor on July 21, 2025, 08:49:48 AM..omissis..
PS - should also mention I've ordered a flip-flop external FDD emulator, but I have original disks I want to play as well. Ideally I'll have the best of both worlds.
Just to aware you, I think you'd need two flip-flop emulator for playing most games, since it support only one drive, while FDX68 and X68KFDPI2 support both floppy drives.
Oh! I had no idea. Thanks for the tip.
Yes, 'FLIP-FLOP' emulator supports one drive at once, I wanted it as much closer to the original drive.Not to promote/advertise my device but I find 'FDX68' a good emulator although a little tricky to set-up and use.I don't know much about 'X68KFDPI2' but from what I can see it's far from being a complete project, for example it lacks of writing capability.Also, it needs an host machine to load disk images.'FLIP-FLOP' is a stand-alone floppy disk drive emulator and it's 100% compatible with all X68000 software, it acts just like the real drive being able to load, format, write disk images.For those interested here are the manuals :
https://drive.google.com/file/d/1JxVaOiE_il3JICfHsLv9ide1GUyb_tq6/view?usp=sharing