Epic Amiga battle on osnews.com Extra Floppy vs No Extra Floppy!

[Gilthanaz]

I had an A500 back then with 1MB and only the internal disk drive. Playing the Lucasfilm Adventures (Monkey I+II, Indy, ..) with that was very painful, and finally i saved up some money and bought a cheap external floppy. Waaaaaay better. Ever since i started using the external floppy, it was like a whole new world (especially since i could not afford a HDD)

I say pure win for *everything* is better than the single built-in drive. Kindwords spellcheck disk in the second drive.. made things easier. Not having to swap to disk 2 of Monkey Island 1 every time you opened a door (because the door sound was appearently on disk 2) - yay! Working with Basic and some example programs on a second floppy...

- G

[Gilthanaz]

I for one have read every post about this fascinating debate and I can't wait to learn about more minutia about external floppy disk drives

I think you forgot your Text goes here tags

- G

[Gilthanaz]

If the Amiga situation in Europe was the same as the C64 situation, I'll believe that external floppy drives were rare there.  In Europe the datasette remained the main data storage device for the C64 and external floppy drives were a lot more rare there --- in fact in Europe there were all sorts of fast loader devices/software for making datasette loading faster.  Here in Canada (and I assume the USA) most people dumped their datasettes when upgrading from the VIC-20 to a nice new C64 with 1541 drive.

Hi!

I can not confirm that. I started with an C64-I (Breadbox) around 1987/88 and it came already with an 1541. My brother and several friends who were lucky enough to also own a C64 back then, all had disk drives. In fact i did only learn about the datasette later when i saw someone using a datasette on a C64 and asked them what they are doing with that

KR,
- G