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Article #544Re: Amiga (DOS) emulator
From: Marcel Weiher
Date: Thu, 30 Jul 1992 22:09
Date: Thu, 30 Jul 1992 22:09
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dillon@overload.Berkeley.CA.US (Matthew Dillon) writes: >>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 > Yes, that's what it _usually_ does (its native format). But if you look at the tech docs, you'll see that it can also do group code, a fact used to great advantage by Mac Emulators (with some additional hardware to do the disc speed.) I never tried it out myself, but I would have loved to do a Apple DOS 3.3 compatible file system in 68K Assembler :-) Marcel
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Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.misc Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!sparky!uunet!europa.asd.contel.com!darwin.sura.net!Sirius.dfn.de!zrz.tu-berlin.de!cs.tu-berlin.de!marcel From: marcel@opal.cs.tu-berlin.de (Marcel Weiher) Subject: Re: Amiga (DOS) emulator Message-ID: <1992Jul30.220921.972@cs.tu-berlin.de> Sender: news@cs.tu-berlin.de Organization: Techn. University of Berlin, Germany References: <YePUNYK00WB5ECXq4i@andrew.cmu.edu> <54889@mentor.cc.purdue.edu> <1992Jul28.114640.9099@infoserver.th-darmstadt.de> <dillon.0ka3@overload.Berkeley.CA.US> Date: Thu, 30 Jul 1992 22:09:21 GMT Lines: 18