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Amiga computer related discussion => Amiga Hardware Issues and discussion => Topic started by: StevenJGore on April 25, 2003, 02:04:29 PM

Title: Amiga Tech A1200 - Altered PC Floppy Drive Software Compatibility
Post by: StevenJGore on April 25, 2003, 02:04:29 PM

I have just read the following on a website...

"The AT A1200 has an altered PC floppy drive and is, as a result, not compatible with certain software titles."

Can anyone expand on this?
Will it only be able to read DOS disks, making non-DOS disks (mainly the earlier A500/600 games) unreadable?

Thanks!

Title: Re: Amiga Tech A1200 - Altered PC Floppy Drive Software Compatibility
Post by: Mad-Matt on April 25, 2003, 02:11:21 PM

The drive is pretty normal, its the Motherboard that was adapted to take these drives (so you cant just bungin a normal amiga drive).

Most dos based disks will be fine.  Its copy protected games that make use of the drive sync signal which will suffer (and thats alot of classic games).

There are various work arounds on Aminet which require soldering of varied degrees.

Title: Re: Amiga Tech A1200 - Altered PC Floppy Drive Software Compatibility
Post by: StevenJGore on April 25, 2003, 02:13:36 PM

Cheers, that was a quick reply!

Any other subtle differences between an AT A1200 and a Commodore A1200, other than the floppy drive issue above and a 3.1 ROM?

Title: Re: Amiga Tech A1200 - Altered PC Floppy Drive Software Compatibility
Post by: Mad-Matt on April 25, 2003, 02:41:55 PM

No, I belive the rom update and that drive issue was the only thing to have changed ....Oh and the Logo on the case ;)

Title: Re: Amiga Tech A1200 - Altered PC Floppy Drive Software Compatibility
Post by: Vincent on April 25, 2003, 04:23:38 PM

I had that same motherboard and PC floppy and I had to get a motherboard fix done so I could use normal Amiga floppy drives (I think).



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