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- From: tpomar@ibm.net (Toni Pomar)
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.hardware
- Subject: Fix for A1200 floppy problem
- Date: 10 Jan 96 13:31:08 CET
- Organization: Mail Manager 1.1x/n From Palma de Mallorca; Spain
- Message-ID: <80A563CD@ibm.net>
- Reply-To: tpomar@ibm.net (Toni Pomar)
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- X-GateSoftware: AmiGate 1.4d (8.8.95)
-
- Hello All!
-
- Well, its all right all that discussion about ilegal
- programmation, old soft and weird copy protections, but for
- the people that has a new Amiga 1200 all that is bullshit,
- and they simply want to run all the soft that his neighbour,
- with an older A1200, can run. And this is the really
- important thing.
-
- Some days ago a friend brought to me his new A1200 that
- didn't run a good part of soft, to ask me if I could try to
- fix it, even voiding the warranty as their dealer just argue
- that the fault is in the soft, not in the computer (really
- sad warranty).
-
- I opened the computer and started doing some test with my
- old internal drive (and HD A4000 drive, connected to my
- A1200) and with the new drive in my old A1200. After two
- hours of testing, thinking and a little of polymeter, I
- found that the RDY signal is missed (yuck!! it's a nasty
- PeeCee floppy!! aaaarrrggghhhhh!!!! 8^O
-
- Well, all that is needed is a *very simple* hardware hack to
- 'create' a suitable RDY signal for the old soft (a wire
- between pin 10 of internal floppy connector and pin 1 of
- external floppy connector). I did it, and worked quite well
- (after 5 days of extensive testing of old soft, I haven't
- found yet nothing that doesn't work in the new A1200). My
- friend is really happy now with his new A1200, and he
- doesn't worry anymore about old soft, strange ROMs or copy
- protections....happy end ;-9
-
- Well, here is the hack to fix the drive. Do it at your own
- risk, so if you blow your computer it's not my fault. All I
- can say is that it worked in two A1200 until now.
-
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- (Please, reply by e-mail to Toni Pomar tpomar@ibm.net, as I
- don't read news frequently)
- _
- _ //
- \X/ Megs of greets 8^)
-
- P.D.: tried to submit this file to Aminet, but there seem to
- be a problem with Aminet. I will keep triying to submit the
- file so everybody can get it.
-
-