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An anonymous reader writes "Individual computers have announced a new version of they're multi-format floppy controller the Cat Weasel. This new version (Catweasel MK3 PCI/Flipper) has a few surprises such as 3 different interfaces to connect it to the host computer and a socket for an original C64 SID chip :). 'The main purpose of the Catweasel has always been to allow access to non-standard disks using normal PC-disk drives, even if you usually need a completely different computer for that. The capacity of the drive does not matter in this case: A 5.25 inch drive with 1.2MByte capacity will read and write a C-64 disk with 170KByte as well as a 3.5 inch drive with 1.44MByte can access a 1,76MByte Amiga disk. Together with a company that has specialized in data recovery, we're working on the implementation of more than 1100 different disk formats, and it does not matter that this has been classified impossible by others before. Even the 800KByte disks from older Macintosh computers can be used in standard 1.44MB drives, although the original drives have rotated their disks at variable speeds.' Find out more at the Catweasel MK3 PCI/Flipper page."
awwwwwwwwwww yeah
What am I going to do with that HUGE BOX OF WAREZ?! :-)
With a name like "Catweasel" it has to be good.
Since when did Slashdot start posting free advertisements from corporations
Since mid 2002. Where have you been?
The theory of relativity doesn't work right in Arkansas.
Dig yourself out of your parents basement, shut off your linux b0x, and GO OUTSIDE!!!!
We can assume your Windows machine is in the attic then?
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I can't even carry a floppy halfways across a room between two drives that are supposed to work with the same filesystem without seeing my data eaten by bad sectors, and now my PC can ruin my old 8-bit collection too. What a deal.
Acees old data hunh?
[rons@localhost rons]$ cat weasel
cat: weasel: No such file or directory
[rons@localhost rons]$
Maybe it just needs a good driver. Otherwise, I doubt it will live up to it's purpose...
Soko
"Depression is merely anger without enthusiasm." - Anonymous
Wow. Neat piece of hardware. But why put the SID circuit on it? A SB Live has superior performance and can pretend to be a better SID than the SID ever was.
If you really need that level of hardware support, put a 6502 on the board, and run that too. Hey, why stop there - put the 64KByte of memory (use some left over 486 cache memory), and hell, put the composite output driver for those who REALLY need the whole 80's experience. Oh, and some acid washed jeans too.
No, I don't trust in god. He'll have to pay up front, like everybody else.