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- From: 22black@sol.cs.wmich.edu (Martin Black)
- Subject: Re: Floppy size in 1200?
- Message-ID: <1992Nov9.042536.9255@sol.cs.wmich.edu>
- Organization: Western Michigan Univ. Comp. Sci. Dept.
- References: <1992Nov2.090012.44313@kuhub.cc.ukans.edu> <36617@cbmvax.commodore.com> <1992Nov3.142024.17682@hubcap.clemson.edu> <Bx5ysJ.DtE@news.iastate.edu> <13414@ecs.soton.ac.uk> <69121@cup.portal.com>
- Date: Mon, 9 Nov 1992 04:25:36 GMT
- Lines: 43
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- joeles@cup.portal.com (Joel Edward Swan) writes:
- >>
- >>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)...
-
- >If this is the case, then ALL (Paula upgradable) AGA Amigas should start
- >having the dual speed HD's in them. Why? So that if a AGA Paula is put in
- >place, the OS can spin the HD dual speed drive at it's normal, higher speed
- >and read/write hd floppies at the faster speed.
-
- Even if the drives will work well enough at higher speeds. The paula is
- surfaced mounted on to the mb like all other custom chips.
-
- >>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))
-
- >I highly doubt it too. They seem to aim more at the low end game market.
- >Not sure the more expensive disks would sell well there.
-
- Well in the speech at the woc of pasadena they did say about having 4mb drives.
- on the future machines. I am sure that is actually 4mb floppys on an 3.52mb
- drive.
-
- My self, I was thinking I could really use a high density drive. But since
- no apps will come on it since the lowest denominator of aga is a1200, with
- no high d drive. Most games will start having to be hard drive enabled which
- is a good thing. And I guess for backups I guess I really should buy a
- backup tape drive. Those prices seem to be going down.
-
- Martin
-
-