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- From: efp90@ecs.soton.ac.uk (Pritchard EF)
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.hardware
- Subject: Re: Floppy size in 1200?
- Message-ID: <13414@ecs.soton.ac.uk>
- Date: 6 Nov 92 12:23:09 GMT
- References: <1992Nov2.090012.44313@kuhub.cc.ukans.edu> <36617@cbmvax.commodore.com> <1992Nov3.142024.17682@hubcap.clemson.edu> <Bx5ysJ.DtE@news.iastate.edu>
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- In <Bx5ysJ.DtE@news.iastate.edu> barrett@iastate.edu (Marc N. Barrett) writes:
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- >In article <1992Nov3.142024.17682@hubcap.clemson.edu>
- >charlet@hubcap.clemson.edu (Charles E "Rick" Taylor IV) writes:
- >>grr@cbmvax.commodore.com (George Robbins) writes:
- >>
- >>>In article <1992Nov2.090012.44313@kuhub.cc.ukans.edu>
- >>>2ftqkiln@kuhub.cc.ukans.edu writes:
- >>>> Before the A1200 was officially announced in Europe someone
- >>>> had posted specs about the 1200 which were not official. In that
- >>>> post it was said that the 1200 had an 880K floppy instead of the
- >>>> new 1.76M floppy.
- >>
- >>>It has an 880Kb floppy.
- >>
- >>>> (oh please, oh please have the 1.76M drive):)
- >>
- >>>Sorry about that, dude...
- >>
- >>Arrrgh. This is my *only* gripe about the A1200. So now all these AGA games
- >>are going to have to fit on an 880K floppy? And so much for CrossDos
- >>actually being *useful*. :(
-
- My thinking is that all this AA Sound Stuff and HD Disks ties up
- (naturally) to Paula. CBM have not released an AA Paula, probably, I
- suspect, because it is still under development... and guess what thay
- are putting in it? Both the new (speculated) sound upgrade (16 bit 16
- voice PCM... who knows?) __AND__ an upgrade to enable Paula to handle
- HD Floppies at _FULL_ speed... this must be possible now with the
- extra bandwidth such as that given to the blitter...
-
- So folks, if my speculation is correct, for owners of true 32-bit
- (databus) machines with AA chips, we could soon have a Super-Paula
- giving us superb sound and full speed HD disks (let's face it, low
- speed HD disks are a bit naff)...
-
- All speculation, but stanger things have happened
-
- (CBM may even leapfrog forward to a 3.52Mb disk (like IBMs 2.88), but
- I doubt it! (although I hope to be corrected))
-
- So hold yer horses, and see what happens!
-
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- E.F.Pritchard ///
- efp90@uk.ac.soton.ecs \\\/// Amiga I seriously need something
- University of Southampton \xx/ to go on this side of my
- England. signature, any ideas?
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