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- From: joewald@crl.com (Joseph Waldvogel)
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.hardware
- Subject: Re: HD floppy despair (was: Re: AT1200 DD to HD floppy)
- Date: 27 Feb 1996 04:09:49 GMT
- Organization: CRL Dialup Internet Access
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- >The mortal Robert Poole wrote:
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- >: Good thing high density floppies never caught on big with Amiga software
- >: distributors. It's just as well. With the popularity of Zip drives, maybe
- >: Amigans can turn to the Zip as the next big affordable software
- >: distribution medium for ordinary people.
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- >No, they should turn to CD-ROM. They are practically throwing away 1x
- >CD-ROM drives these days. It's cheaper for Amigans to get a CD-ROM drive
- >than a zip drive. Lightwave 4.0 for Amiga was a CD (I suppose there was
- >a floppy version). Other developers seem to be considering CD for Amiga
- >distribution as well.
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- High Density Floppys SHOULD have been standered on ALL the AGA Amiga's.
- That's all A4000's and all A1200's, and anything after. That way when AGA
- games or whatever came out, they wouldn't have to stick with Low density OFS
- format to be compatible with A1200's. Pretty LAME. That's STILL True Now.
- Backwards compatiblity resons, and PC and MAC floppy support. All new Amiga
- though should also have with a CD-ROM Drive as Standered ALSO. Every PC and
- Mac I ever see have at LEAST a High Density 3.1/2 Floppy and CD-ROM as
- Standered and I see that working well with the Amiga also.
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