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All-In-One Interface For All Your Retro/Legacy Drives

Posted by timothy on from the nice-weasel-niiiice-weasel dept.

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."

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  1. Pathetic by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic
    North Korea is making nukes, Iraq is producing biological weapons by the truckload, and all you people can talk about is "All-In-One Interface For All Your Retro/Legacy Drives"???

    Dig yourself out of your parents basement, shut off your linux b0x, and GO OUTSIDE!!!!

    1. Re:Pathetic by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

      Dig yourself out of your pet's ass, shut off whatever box you are using to post to Slashdot to tell the "losers" that they have no life, and go fuck yourself. ;-)

      Seriously, you must not have much of a life yourself if you have time to preach to others that they don't...Imagine that. And, ya never know, maybe some people on Slashdot Have gone outside before. Stranger things have happened.

    2. Re:Pathetic by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

      Sorry, wrong floor.

  2. they're? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    "their"

  3. Re:Since when... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    Since the dawn of time Sun and Transmeta have been showing off their wares on /.

  4. Re:FP by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    Which part of this is a troll?

  5. Getting a jump start ..... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    On those Halloween Slashdot stories are we?

  6. Please mod this down by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    it's not funny, dude

  7. Advertising slogan by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    All Your Interface Are Read By Us !!

  8. Re:Basic skills by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    Why, so he can impress anal-retentive fuckwads like yourself?

  9. Re:Basic skills by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    Your write people should check there grammar its not hard.

  10. Are these posts scripted? by arcadum · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    If so, can you post the code so we all may be as cool as you?

  11. HOLY FUCK!! by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    "Individual computers have announced a new version of they're multi-format floppy controller the Cat Weasel."

    NOW THIS IS FUCKING IT!!!!!!!!!!

    THIS IS THE HEIGHT OF TOTAL FUCKING STUPIDITY!

    A VERSION OF THEY ARE MULTI-FORMAT FLOPPY?????????????????

    good god you fucking pathetic piece of shit, you are such an embarassment to the entire human race. PLEASE fucking kill yourself. I'm totally, completely ashamed to be of the same species as you.

    ******SIGH******

    1. Re:HOLY FUCK!! by Troy+H+Parker · · Score: 0, Offtopic

      It's probably translated from german. Consequently, caps look bad translated too.

    2. Re:HOLY FUCK!! by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

      You realize of course, that typing in caps is just as grammatically incorrect as confusing "you're" for "your".

      Furthermore, you failed to capitalize "good" and "god" in your fourth sentence. "good" must be capitalized because it is the beginning of the sentence, and "god" must be capitalized because it is a proper noun in the context in which you have placed it.

      Please go aquire and consume a cyanide capsule immediately for the good of the gene pool.

  12. Everyone's a winner! by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    Bargains galore! That's right, you can be the proud owner of the quality goes in before the name goes on ....

    Love the reference! :D

  13. Re:Basic skills by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    "Why, so he can impress anal-retentive fuckwads like yourself?"

    No, you ignorant piece of shit. So he can STOP DE-PRESSING us.

    see my post you pathetic loser.

  14. Re:SID emulation by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    You had me at hello.

  15. OMG OMG OMG FPFPFPFP! by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    I got the first post!! ahhahaha ownage!

  16. Catweasel gives me nightmares. by farfisa69 · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    Do you remember that scary kids show with Catweasel in it. I can't remember what it was called, but he was like a scarecrowe that came to life with a bad cockney accent. Some crazy BBC produced thing. He looked like some kind of alcoholic street bum.

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    Meat is murder, I eat chicken.