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Re: PC emulator in KCS Powerboard for A500?
« on: April 17, 2003, 07:39:53 PM »
286 ?????
/me allways thought it was just an 8086 .....

But I don't see how this could help you much in the transfer
of ADFs. IMO the best way is still to use a null-modem-cable
and terminal-SW on both the A500 and your "real" PC.
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Re: PC emulator in KCS Powerboard for A500?
« Reply #1 on: April 17, 2003, 07:59:52 PM »
You can mount DOS-disks with the normal A500 (via MSH, or
CrossDos), but since the the A500 only has a DD-floppy you
would be limited to 720k. Typical adf-file (uncompressed)
is about 1MB .....
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Re: PC emulator in KCS Powerboard for A500?
« Reply #2 on: April 17, 2003, 10:30:05 PM »
ADF-files are diskimages, mostly of disks with non-standard
formated floppies.

So the ADF-file is written back to a empty disk track-per-track.
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