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Offline DrDekkerTopic starter

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Catweasel Questions
« on: August 01, 2009, 10:54:11 PM »
If I were to build a dedicated WinXP pc for running WinUAE - would installing a Catweasel allow me to run original NDOS game disks or would I be restricted to workbench friendly games?

Also, would the floppy drive have to be an 880k Amiga drive or a 1.44mb pc drive?

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Re: Catweasel Questions
« Reply #1 on: August 04, 2009, 01:09:58 PM »
Thanks for the info guys - pretty much what I expected.

It would've been brilliant if WinUAE could've utilised the Catweasel hardware (or the Catweasel's hardware updated) in a way that would allow it to load original (copy protected) disks.

An Amiga OS running on modern PC hardware, able to run original classic software.... that'd be bang tidy!
A1200, M-Tec 1230 @28MHz, FPU, MMU, 8Mb fast ram, SCSI card, 512Mb HD, Power CDROM drive, PS2 optical mouse