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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. I dont think so by Squarewav · · Score: 1, Troll

    I dont buy that it can read 800k disks, people have been tring to read them in normal floppy drives ever sence it came out, I can sure as hell bet that apple has tried in order to reduce costs

    and whats up with the C64 audio, I used to be realy into emulation and most of the fun was that it was, well emulating hardware,

  2. ASCII PR0N! by StuffYourReligion · · Score: 0, Troll

    Oh goody, soon I'll be able to have a wank with all my old 80's ASCII pr0n!

    Er, except back then it was called "porn", not like this modern "pr0n" crap.

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  3. Re:Interesting by AyeRoxor! · · Score: 0, Troll

    "Macs tend to last twice as long as PCs for functionality (wait and see with the new OSX though). The resale value for a mac is significantly higher than a Windows PC.

    Maybe Macs are better?"

    No, Macs are just the computer for art fags. Everything else art fags deal with is pretty, unreasonably more expensive than the equivalent that you and I use, and collectible, even though it's really useless. Why should their computers be different?

  4. One Word: by SHEENmaster · · Score: 0, Troll

    Linux

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