27 Feb
1999
27 Feb
'99
5:41 a.m.
Fred Cisin wrote:
Commodore made some PC clones; but other than those,
the Commodore disk
formats (Pet, 20, 64, 128, Amiga, ...) are NOT possible to do with
unmodified PC hardware. The Amiga disks are MFM, but they have a sector
header structure that is not compatible with the FDC. Compaticard will
NOT provide the necessary hardware capability, although MatchPoint,
CatWeasel, Apple Turnover, or CP Option board MIGHT. I doubt that
Teledisk has support for Matchpoint, Turnover, Option board, or CatWeasel.
CatWeasel can read Amiga disks, that is it's main selling point on the PC.
Does anyone have any experience with it on the PC side? Thier web page CAN
NOT be trusted. I bought the Amiga verison expecting to be able to read
all the different formats advertised only to discover that it did not
include the necessary software. I consider that false advertising. It
will read C-1541 disks quite nicely on the Amiga though, but IIRC that is
IT!
Zane
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