Welcome, Guest. Please login or register.

Author Topic: Connect an old, external floppy drive to A1?  (Read 2630 times)

Description:

0 Members and 1 Guest are viewing this topic.

Offline eliyahu

  • Lifetime Member
  • Global Moderator
  • Hero Member
  • *****
  • Join Date: Jan 2011
  • Posts: 1220
  • Country: us
  • Thanked: 4 times
  • Gender: Male
    • Show all replies
    • eliyahu.org
Re: Connect an old, external floppy drive to A1?
« on: January 30, 2013, 02:43:20 PM »
Quote from: Wilse;724656
Ah well.
I don't have a CW card but no biggie; was just an idea.

 
unfortunately you need a dedicated controller for that purpose and none of the post-commodore amiga systems have them. without something like a catweasel or kyroflux, no floppy drive. :(

that said a catweasel is a brilliant addition to any next-generation amiga system; my SAM has one and i use it all of the time, mostly in conjunction with VICE since my biggest software collection is from my C64 days and everything is on 5.25" floppies. i even use it for sound generation since i put SID chips on the board's sockets. they're not easy to find these days, but amibay is always a good place to start looking if you're interested. it will work just as well in your A1 as it does in my SAM! :)

-- eliyahu
"How do you know I’m mad?" said Alice.
"You must be," said the Cat, "or you wouldn’t have come here."