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Bob_BobR_Retelle@cup.portal.com writes: <72073@cup.portal.com>
>j> WHAT??? NO EXTERNAL FLOPPY????
>>Why not connect a Floptical to the SCSI-2 port? Try this on the Amiga 1200..
>
>How about $300 as a reason..?
>

While I don't have a schematic for the Falcon, I assume it still uses a Floppy
Controller Chip and still has the Yamaha chip. If this is the case, is there
reason a person couldn't just daisy chain one in to the 34 pin cable that goes
to the internal floppy drive?

Even if they didn't run the trace from the Yamaha for DS1 (vs. DS0), you could
always run one with a wire.

I am assuming that they didn't pull the same trick they did with the XL/XE
(concerning Joystick ports 3 & 4 and that "extra" 16K of RAM). The XBIOS and
thus GEM probably would still support it just fine, and if it don't, it's in
RAM on the Falcon (loaded in from Disk), so thats no problem.

Next subject: The LAN connector.

Does anybody know how to put Ether-Net on a Falcon? (So it can be connected
to my Unix Box?) I've never heard of "Local-Talk" before, and I don't own a
Mac.
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