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  1. Path: news-m01.ny.us.ibm.net!tpomar
  2. From: tpomar@ibm.net (Toni Pomar)
  3. Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.hardware
  4. Subject: Fix for A1200 floppy problem
  5. Date: 10 Jan 96 13:31:08 CET
  6. Organization: Mail Manager 1.1x/n  From Palma de Mallorca; Spain
  7. Message-ID: <80A563CD@ibm.net>
  8. Reply-To: tpomar@ibm.net (Toni Pomar)
  9. NNTP-Posting-Host: slip139-92-17-221.emea.ibm.net
  10. X-GateSoftware: AmiGate 1.4d (8.8.95)
  11.  
  12. Hello All!
  13.  
  14. Well,  its  all  right  all  that  discussion  about  ilegal
  15. programmation,  old soft and weird copy protections, but for
  16. the  people  that has a new Amiga 1200 all that is bullshit,
  17. and they simply want to run all the soft that his neighbour,
  18. with  an  older  A1200,  can  run.  And  this  is the really
  19. important thing.
  20.  
  21. Some  days  ago  a  friend  brought to me his new A1200 that
  22. didn't  run a good part of soft, to ask me if I could try to
  23. fix it, even voiding the warranty as their dealer just argue
  24. that  the  fault is in the soft, not in the computer (really
  25. sad warranty).
  26.  
  27. I  opened  the  computer and started doing some test with my
  28. old  internal  drive  (and  HD  A4000 drive, connected to my
  29. A1200)  and  with  the  new drive in my old A1200. After two
  30. hours  of  testing,  thinking  and  a little of polymeter, I
  31. found  that  the  RDY  signal is missed (yuck!! it's a nasty
  32. PeeCee floppy!! aaaarrrggghhhhh!!!! 8^O
  33.  
  34. Well, all that is needed is a *very simple* hardware hack to
  35. 'create'  a  suitable  RDY  signal  for the old soft (a wire
  36. between  pin  10  of  internal floppy connector and pin 1 of
  37. external  floppy connector). I did it, and worked quite well
  38. (after  5  days  of extensive testing of old soft, I haven't
  39. found  yet  nothing  that doesn't work in the new A1200). My
  40. friend  is  really  happy  now  with  his  new A1200, and he
  41. doesn't  worry  anymore about old soft, strange ROMs or copy
  42. protections....happy end ;-9
  43.  
  44. Well,  here  is the hack to fix the drive. Do it at your own
  45. risk,  so if you blow your computer it's not my fault. All I
  46. can say is that it worked in two A1200 until now.
  47.  
  48. begin 644 Floppy_fix.lha
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  186. size 6079
  187.  
  188. (Please,  reply by e-mail to Toni Pomar tpomar@ibm.net, as I
  189. don't read news frequently)
  190.    _
  191. _ //
  192. \X/ Megs of greets 8^)
  193.  
  194. P.D.: tried to submit this file to Aminet, but there seem to
  195. be  a problem with Aminet. I will keep triying to submit the
  196. file so everybody can get it.
  197.  
  198.