| From: | tim |
| Date: | 24 May 2000 at 11:33:29 |
| Subject: | Re: A few old Amiga games... |
Hi Kevin
> >> >> >> Also, is there a way of adapting a PC disk drive to work on
>
> >> One of the Panasonic PC drives can be converted to work. It
>
> > Yes, but it's easier and probably cheaper to get a brand new Amiga
> > drive from Ramjam Consultants ;-)
>
> Ah yes, but they won't read HD disks, will they?
Only if they're formatted as DD ;-P
>
> Nice try, Tim ;))
Actually, unless you build some fairly interesting buffer circuitry
(as used in the Power HD drives) there is no reliable way to convert
a PC drive to work as HD on the Amiga. Attempting to halve the motor
speed introduces variances which mean that even if a disk can be
read on the drive that wrote it, it can't be read on other drives.
>From what I've heard even reading them on the same drive is rather
erratic.
A more reliable, if less convenient and portable, way to get more data
on a floppy is to use compression.
Tim
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