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- From: marcel@opal.cs.tu-berlin.de (Marcel Weiher)
- Subject: Re: Amiga (DOS) emulator
- Message-ID: <1992Jul30.220921.972@cs.tu-berlin.de>
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- Organization: Techn. University of Berlin, Germany
- References: <YePUNYK00WB5ECXq4i@andrew.cmu.edu> <54889@mentor.cc.purdue.edu> <1992Jul28.114640.9099@infoserver.th-darmstadt.de> <dillon.0ka3@overload.Berkeley.CA.US>
- Date: Thu, 30 Jul 1992 22:09:21 GMT
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- dillon@overload.Berkeley.CA.US (Matthew Dillon) writes:
- >>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
- >
-
- Yes, that's what it _usually_ does (its native format). But if you look
- at the tech docs, you'll see that it can also do group code, a fact
- used to great advantage by Mac Emulators (with some additional hardware
- to do the disc speed.) I never tried it out myself, but I would have
- loved to do a Apple DOS 3.3 compatible file system in 68K Assembler :-)
-
- Marcel
-