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- From: dillon@overload.Berkeley.CA.US (Matthew Dillon)
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.misc
- Subject: Re: Amiga (DOS) emulator
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- References: <YePUNYK00WB5ECXq4i@andrew.cmu.edu> <54889@mentor.cc.purdue.edu> <1992Jul28.114640.9099@infoserver.th-darmstadt.de>
- Date: 30 Jul 92 10:43:09 PST
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- In article <1992Jul28.114640.9099@infoserver.th-darmstadt.de> uli@aida.intellektik.informatik.th-darmstadt.de (Ulrich Grepel) writes:
- >In article <54889@mentor.cc.purdue.edu>, ab@nova.cc.purdue.edu (Allen B) writes:
- >|>
- >|> (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
-
- Even though the Amiga's controller can stuff raw bits, the Amiga uses a
- standard MFM encoding. The difference is that the Amiga reads and
- writes whole tracks at a time and therefore needs no gaps between
- sectors, thus getting 11 sectors/track instead of 9.
-
- -Matt
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