Can I install floppy drive1.44 on Amiga 600?

[Digiman]

Can't use them as HD 1.86mb format though without a Power Computing interface board and even then needs a driver.

[Digiman]

Yes, I can.  It's a high density floppy drive, so I use 1,760KB floppies in it.  I can also cover the upper left tab hole on high density floppies and use them as low density 880KB floppies too.

You can't format to 1.76mb Amiga format though without extra hardware.

[Digiman]

psxphill, What PLCC chip did he use?

Another idea is to have a simple buffer that is "DD" to the Amiga with 2x sectors. And "HD" to the floppy drive. Could possible be implemented with a MCU.

That's similar to how the A4000 does it, the data is read in slower than PCs would.

[Digiman]

I did mean a regular Commodore A600 or A1200s not resurrected A1200s from ESCOM etc. I know they had different drives which is why I never bid on them on ebay etc. Interesting that they can read/write HD Amiga format disks.

Any more info on this anyone? I would be interested in getting an AT A1200 now if I can get a HD disk formatted on it.

(otherwise it ain't worth the ass ache with all the problems the AT A1200 disk drive has loading older/tricky disk formats on original games)

Well I meant ALL Amigas except A4000.

This ESCOM/Amiga Technologies HD floppy version is news to me, anyone else got info on how to spot one? Usually I only consider C= 1200 as KS3.1 doesn't interest me, only reliable disk drives :roflmao:

[Digiman]

Digiman, No the idea is to let the MCU/FPGA read the data at full speed. And then deliver them to the Amiga at half speed. Using a buffer in the MCU/FPGA.

Ahh OK A4000 halves spin speed to essentially do the same job. Bit of a botch for a £2000 machine!