Re: Amiga (DOS) emulator

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From: Ulrich Grepel
Date: Tue, 28 Jul 1992 11:46

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In article <54889@mentor.cc.purdue.edu>, ab@nova.cc.purdue.edu (Allen B) writes:
|> 
|> You probably could make the NeXT drive do the trick.  An
|> MS-DOS DD disk is 80 cylinders, 9 sectors per.  An Amiga
|> disk is 80 cylinders and 11 sectors per.  If you can coax the
|> drive into doing that, you'd just have to implement the
|> filesystem, which shouldn't be much harder than the
|> MS-DOS one was.
|> 
|> (An Amiga drive can do either as well as more bizarre
|> stuff.)
|> 
Yeah, an Amiga drive can do very many tricks, especially using a non MFM coding
sceme - it's Commodore's own GCR format. So you won't be able to even read
a single sector with a 'standard' disc controller.

Uli

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