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Offline jlariv8957Topic starter

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Idea for cheap HD floppy drives
« on: March 17, 2005, 09:09:50 PM »
It's just an idea:

I would be nice to develop a driver to use those cheap USB floppy drives on Amiga with USB controller !

 

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Re: Idea for cheap HD floppy drives
« Reply #1 on: March 18, 2005, 05:47:26 PM »
Hi,

I think (but i'm not sure) that most of decoding work is
done by the host in that case, Macs are able to use them too
even if i know there are little differences between MAC
and PC disk formats. if the host machine is doing the job
why amiga couldn't ? I know it'll be impossible to boot from
that kind of disk but does anyone really use floppy disks
to boot nowadays ? if you want to play old games no need for
high density disks.

Even if it is just possible to read/write PCs disks, i think
"REAL" HD floppy should be abble to read them too !

Near the only use of floppies is to transfer files to another
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Re: Idea for cheap HD floppy drives
« Reply #2 on: March 18, 2005, 07:59:30 PM »
Should be a great idea to read amiga disks in PC for UAE !