Ok, I've got to reply on this. Go to the disk2fdi homepage, download the package and see for yourself.
Disk2fdi can read Amiga floppies (among others) on a PC with two floppy drives.
And by the way, the if you buy a Catweasel mk3, you can read even those pesky variable speed 800k Apple disks on a single speed drive. Disk2fdi doesn't require anything else but a plain dos prompt and two floppy drives.
Why does every Amiga thread on Slashdot have to be full of misinformation? Oh well, I guess that goes for all Slashdot threads..:-)
Actually, Atari didn't sell Amiga off to Commodore..
Amiga Inc. had a money loan from Atari and a contract, but C= stepped in with a higher bid for their share and snatched the company right from Atari's hands.
1.0 was dog-awful, 1.1 only a little better. 1.2 was basically all right, but it couldn't autoboot from a hard drive.
Nowadays no serious user runs 1.x, it's got to be 3.1 at least.
The lack of memory protection means that you need to know your system, install programs one at a time and see what wasn't a good idea.. If you build an AmigaOS installation from scratch and just throw everything in, you might end up with a very unstable machine.
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Please research your subject before posting flamebait.. This is nothing near to anything an Amiga emulator emulates.
It's a completely new architechture, that brings the platform to more current standards. You won't be able to run any old A500 games on it, just system-friendly apps and games from your workbench.
Amiga has word processors, web browsers, irc clients, what have you. You start them from your workbench and run them in windows and screens, a bit like you would do if you use X11 or Windows.
This is not a souped up A500! Nothing of the original hardware architechture is left, this is why you can't run those hardware bangers. Actually, my A4000 won't run most of the old games either thanks to all the expansions that make it better for workbench use.
Times change, my friend. What if I told you that Linux can only run two tasks, the other outputting A and the other outputting B? That's about what you're saying of the Amiga.
Have you ever used a proper Amiga, or just an unexpanded old A500 or A1200?
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Ok, I've got to reply on this. Go to the disk2fdi homepage, download the package and see for yourself.
:-)
Disk2fdi can read Amiga floppies (among others) on a PC with two floppy drives.
And by the way, the if you buy a Catweasel mk3, you can read even those pesky variable speed 800k Apple disks on a single speed drive. Disk2fdi doesn't require anything else but a plain dos prompt and two floppy drives.
Why does every Amiga thread on Slashdot have to be full of misinformation? Oh well, I guess that goes for all Slashdot threads..
Actually, Atari didn't sell Amiga off to Commodore..
Amiga Inc. had a money loan from Atari and a contract, but C= stepped in with a higher bid for their share and snatched the company right from Atari's hands.
More info on the matter.
Well, 1.3 was stable in my opinion.
1.0 was dog-awful, 1.1 only a little better. 1.2 was basically all right, but it couldn't autoboot from a hard drive.
Nowadays no serious user runs 1.x, it's got to be 3.1 at least.
The lack of memory protection means that you need to know your system, install programs one at a time and see what wasn't a good idea.. If you build an AmigaOS installation from scratch and just throw everything in, you might end up with a very unstable machine.
Please research your subject before posting flamebait.. This is nothing near to anything an Amiga emulator emulates.
It's a completely new architechture, that brings the platform to more current standards. You won't be able to run any old A500 games on it, just system-friendly apps and games from your workbench.
Amiga has word processors, web browsers, irc clients, what have you. You start them from your workbench and run them in windows and screens, a bit like you would do if you use X11 or Windows.
This is not a souped up A500! Nothing of the original hardware architechture is left, this is why you can't run those hardware bangers. Actually, my A4000 won't run most of the old games either thanks to all the expansions that make it better for workbench use.
Times change, my friend. What if I told you that Linux can only run two tasks, the other outputting A and the other outputting B? That's about what you're saying of the Amiga.
Have you ever used a proper Amiga, or just an unexpanded old A500 or A1200?
Try the 5510 or the music player .. all the music player needs is a phone with the 2.5mm style headset connector.