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From: "Paul Millar" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Sent: Wednesday, September 12, 2001 8:04 PM
Subject: Re: [scottish] Amiga Workbench Software again
> On Wed, 12 Sep 2001, David Irvine wrote:
> > Don't know if this is the same with the amiga but it was the same for
> > atari, PC can read the format, its just that if you use 1.44Mb disks for
> > 720K in a pc drive you need to cover up the 1.44Mb hole that the drive
> > uses to suss out the format. Atari drives didnt care because they didnt
> > know about 1.44Mb
>
> Yep, I've don't that trick: trying to slide a floppy in whilst holding a
> piece of paper in just the right place is definitely a skill ...
>
> Off the top of my head, I can't remember what's the different between PC
> and Amiga formats. AFAIK both use MFM encoding (fixed angular speed, like
> vinyls). The guist of the problem is the floppy controller on the Amiga is
> far more flexible that the one on a PC. It was also rumoured that the
> Amiga could even read GCR formated disks (as used by Apples) which have
> variable angular speed (like CDs).
I used to have an amiga, and was able to read mac disks, as well as pc disks
and atari st disks, the amiga was a superb machine, mine gave up the ghost
many years ago though. On the amiga it was the case of running an emulator
and then you could write to the disks, is that not possible with the pc?
Phil Deane
http://www.MiracleExpress.force9.co.uk
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