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- From: uli@aida.intellektik.informatik.th-darmstadt.de (Ulrich Grepel)
- Subject: Re: Amiga (DOS) emulator
- Message-ID: <1992Jul28.114640.9099@infoserver.th-darmstadt.de>
- Sender: uli@aida (Ulrich Grepel)
- Date: Tue, 28 Jul 1992 11:46:40 GMT
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- In article <54889@mentor.cc.purdue.edu>, ab@nova.cc.purdue.edu (Allen B) writes:
- |>
- |> You probably could make the NeXT drive do the trick. An
- |> MS-DOS DD disk is 80 cylinders, 9 sectors per. An Amiga
- |> disk is 80 cylinders and 11 sectors per. If you can coax the
- |> drive into doing that, you'd just have to implement the
- |> filesystem, which shouldn't be much harder than the
- |> MS-DOS one was.
- |>
- |> (An Amiga drive can do either as well as more bizarre
- |> stuff.)
- |>
- Yeah, an Amiga drive can do very many tricks, especially using a non MFM coding
- sceme - it's Commodore's own GCR format. So you won't be able to even read
- a single sector with a 'standard' disc controller.
-
- Uli
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