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- From: mlelstv@serpens.rhein.de (Michael van Elst)
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.misc
- Subject: Re: Walker = 1970's 8-Track Player
- Date: 18 Mar 1996 16:39:06 +0100
- Organization: dis-
- Message-ID: <4ik02q$mrm@serpens.rhein.de>
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- jralph@cix.compulink.co.uk ("Jolyon Ralph") writes:
-
- >Does anyone know if the new 1.44Mb disk drive in the 'dung beetle' will
- >actually read all 880Kb Amiga disks? After the fiasco with the
- >A1200/A4000 disk drives not being compatible, I'd be very suprised if
- >this new drive will read any non-standard format disks (like all the old
- >games).
-
- The drive is not the problem. The games are.
-
- "All the old games" do not use non-standard format either but use non-standard
- disk routines that failed with a slight change of the hardware. That's why
- any sensible software producer uses the operating system to access the hardware.
-
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- Michael van Elst
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- "A potential Snark may lurk in every tree."
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