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- From: mlelstv@serpens.rhein.de (Michael van Elst)
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.hardware
- Subject: Re: Fix for A1200 floppy problem
- Date: 11 Jan 1996 08:57:38 +0100
- Organization: dis-
- Message-ID: <4d2fti$im6@serpens.rhein.de>
- References: <FE78A570@ibm.net>
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-
- tpomar@ibm.net (Toni Pomar) writes:
-
- > MvE> It is a PC floppy. There are no such things as Amiga floppies
- > MvE> anymore.
-
- >But Amiga flopies are simply floppies that supply DC and RDY
- >signal simultaneously on different pins. I think it's not
- >that strange (some PC drives do it, but not the ones used by
- >AT).
-
- That's what Amiga floppies are, they do use standard Shugart-Bus
- pin-out. PCs used their own standard that is now the only thing
- available. And no, PC drives do not have a ready signal, never
- had.
-
- Some PC drives do have a mounting option for a RDY signal but
- it is probably too expensive.
-
- >For a really perfect fix some more components have to be
- >used (several NOR gates, a condenser and some more), but I
- >needed an easy and fast fix, as I had little time to do it
- >(not me, but the owner of the A1200 being fixed).
-
- Right :)
-
- >soft! Forget it and use only the soft that comes with the
- >machine until the developers begin to support PC floppies."
-
- Well. The developers just needed to read documentation. They
- are soooo proud that they just use the hardware manual but
- cannot even read that.
-
- >It's a really bad image for the Amiga, and it's what dealers
- >are doing right now... :-\
-
- The real bad image is that there is hardly any good game software.
- With PCs such junk would have died out years ago. But with
- a small market like the Amiga's it must be tolerated.
-
- --
- Michael van Elst
-
- Internet: mlelstv@serpens.rhein.de
- "A potential Snark may lurk in every tree."
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