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Article #543Re: Amiga (DOS) emulator
From: Matthew Dillon
Date: Thu, 30 Jul 1992 18:43
Date: Thu, 30 Jul 1992 18:43
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In article <1992Jul28.114640.9099@infoserver.th-darmstadt.de> uli@aida.intellektik.informatik.th-darmstadt.de (Ulrich Grepel) writes:
>In article <54889@mentor.cc.purdue.edu>, ab@nova.cc.purdue.edu (Allen B) writes:
>|>
>|> (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
Even though the Amiga's controller can stuff raw bits, the Amiga uses a
standard MFM encoding. The difference is that the Amiga reads and
writes whole tracks at a time and therefore needs no gaps between
sectors, thus getting 11 sectors/track instead of 9.
-Matt
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Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!sparky!uunet!overload!dillon From: dillon@overload.Berkeley.CA.US (Matthew Dillon) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.misc Subject: Re: Amiga (DOS) emulator Distribution: world Message-ID: <dillon.0ka3@overload.Berkeley.CA.US> References: <YePUNYK00WB5ECXq4i@andrew.cmu.edu> <54889@mentor.cc.purdue.edu> <1992Jul28.114640.9099@infoserver.th-darmstadt.de> Date: 30 Jul 92 10:43:09 PST Organization: Not an Organization Lines: 26