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- From: sheun@cs.city.ac.uk (Sheun Olatunbosun)
- Subject: DD vs HD floppies
- Message-ID: <sheun.726247104@barney>
- Keywords: Amiga CrossDOS
- Sender: news@city.cs (News)
- Organization: City University
- Date: 5 Jan 93 15:18:24 GMT
- Lines: 49
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- Hello,
-
- I'm having a problem finding an IBM compatible machine which will accept
- my DD (Double Density) floppies. All the I've seen PC's seem to have the HD
- (High Density) drive as standard. I would really like to use the Amiga
- CrossDOS facility for transferring work from the PC's at my university to my
- A1200 at home.
-
- I would like to know what others have done out there (do not reply "I found
- a PC with a DD drive"). For example, is it possible to buy an Amiga-dedicated
- HD drive to connect to the external disk port? If so, how much?
- Of course, a new device handler/driver would probably be need to handle it, so
- that the Amiga can take full advantage of 1.44Mb disk capacity.
-
- Am I in too far over my head here? Sorry. I'm five days new to the Amiga world.
-
- Oh, and one gripe with CBM. I can't understand why the latter has refused to
- include as standard the AmigaDOS and Arexx manuals into the A1200 package. It's
- all very nice playing with workbench (move a file here or there and manipulate)
- and seeing what the machine is capable of through other people's work (demos,
- games, utilities and application packages), but at the end of the day I want to
- be able to do something for myself (be it just to display an empty window at
- some position on the screen).
- The A1200, I believe, is capable of a lot from the programmer's point of view.
- Making the AmigaDOS and Arexx manuals optional means that many users (USER
- definitely suffices as the correct word here) are unaware of the potential of
- their beast.
- At the moment, I'm having to borrow a manual (AmigoDOS1.3) from an A500 owner
- to find out what I can do with AmigaDOS3! Obviously, I am going to have to buy
- an AmigaDOS3 manual to know what new commands are still going untapped. Oh!
- I also borrowed "The Very First" disk from him. A very competent demonstration
- for any novice who is completely new to the world of computers. The mentioned
- disk explains mouse movement, buttons, windows, menus and the shell. The
- interaction here is far more beneficial to the user than reading about the
- various features in the workbench manual. Where's the corresponding disk for
- A1200 owners. What happened to the "say" utility/speak handler (even if it was
- a bit naff)? A friend told me that Arexx was lurking on the Extras disk for
- Workbench 1.3/2.0 owners with no mention to it. Doesn't Commodore want users
- to USE, MAXIMISE the knowledge of their computers?
-
- Hell, I wish Commodore would get there act together.
-
- "The A1200, a new specification games machine to replace the A600/A500+?"
-
- ...not for me it won't be.
-
- Sheun
-
- p.s. don't forget my initial question.
-