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- From: peterk@combo.ganesha.com (Dr. Peter Kittel)
- Subject: Re: HD/DD drives jumpered = games/apps not working correctly
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.advocacy,comp.sys.amiga.hardware,comp.sys.amiga.misc
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- References: <4c5ejt$qrs@coranto.ucs.mun.ca> <4c5pev$k3l@alterdial.UU.NET>
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- Date: 2 Jan 96 22:32:57 MEZ
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- In article <4c5pev$k3l@alterdial.UU.NET> chall@clover.cleaf.com (Chris Hall) writes:
- >George Noel (gnoel@morgan.ucs.mun.ca) wrote:
- >
- >: Will there be a fix in the OS to make up for the newer drives in the
- >: A1200 breaking older A1200 programs on floppy?
-
- It's not "broken", so it doesn't need a "fix". But you can't change
- it by software, if you really want you have to change the hardware.
-
- >I've got a better idea. How about the game producers stop putting the
- >stupid disk protection routines on their games and they will work without
- >any problems.
-
- Good idea. And it's even *not* in the protection part of their track
- loaders as far as I understand, they just need to follow the advice
- of the Hardware Reference Manual to add a time-out of .5 s for the
- DiskReady signal of the drive. That's all.
-
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