Hyperspeed wrote:
PaSha: There is no way I'm going to follow that hack! It's a lot of work for something as minor as getting 1.76MB instead of 880K...
Hey... you asked for a HD floppy drive hack, and that's it. There is ofcourse also the Catweasel+kylwalda combo...
Whyever did Commodore put an 880K drive into the AGA A1200 and a 1.76MB into the AGA A4000!? PCs of that era had 1.44MB drives even on the 386 laptops like Amstrad ALT-386SX.
Money is the reason. The A1200 was made to have a low price, hence the 68EC020 (resulting in 24-bit design instead of 32-bit), missing clock and DD floppy drive (because DD floppy drives were way cheaper than custom made half-speed Amiga HD floppy drives). All Amiga software was shipped on DD floppies anyway.
And in case you didn't know: 1.44 MB drive and 1.76 MB drive = same hardware, it's just that the PC way of dealing with floppies is less efficient. So if you do the above hack, your 'minor' improvement will be the ability to read/write Amiga 880/1760 kB disks, PC 720/1440 kB disks and almost all other 3.5" DD/HD disk formats. And this is what you asked for, yes?
Apologies for the off-topicness of this post.
-Paul
