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Offline Dr_Righteous

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Re: Can't understand...
« on: September 06, 2005, 04:08:58 AM »
Catweasel is the only way it's possible to WRITE an Amiga Floppy. Tho I do recall a hack allowing you to connect an external Amiga floppy drive to the parallel port for read access.

The format Amiga uses on floppys is similar to that of a CD, rather than in sector form like a hard drive. This is the same for double density (880k) Macintosh disks. It's impossible to get a PC floppy drive to move the way it needs to to correctly access these spiral tracks, without using some form of hardware to alter the way the drive heads move. Software alone can not accomplish this because it was never meant to be done with a PC floppy controller.
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Re: Can't understand...
« Reply #1 on: September 10, 2005, 03:55:09 AM »
Holy crap, if you trace it all down, it takes a little of almost every custom chip on the Amiga just for floppy funtions! Even Agnus/Alice! I'd say all, but I don't see any connections to Denise/Lisa. Man our floppy drives are COMPLEX!
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A4000D, A3640 OC-36.3MHz, custom tower, Mediator A4000D. Diamond Banshee 16M, Indivision AGA 4000, GVP HC+8.

Mac Mini 1.5GHz, that might run MorphOS someday, when the fools who own it come to the realization that 30 minutes just isn\'t enough time to play with it enough to decide whether or not you like it enough to cough up $200.

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