22 Oct
2007
22 Oct
'07
10:11 a.m.
Chuck Guzis wrote:
As a matter of fact, if you have a reasonably quick
PC, I suspect
that you could probably toss something together that could hook to a
printer port that would scarcely be more than a timer and a couple of
flip-flops (and maybe some drivers) that could do the job for most
5.25" FM and MFM low-density disks.
Hmm, I thought all modern machines emulate a parallel port connected via an
ISA bus - i.e. it's still slow compared to the rest of the machine, and a
modern xGHz system won't drive the port any quicker than a syatem of ten years
ago...
At least on the CW MK I and MK III, most of the board
is taken up by
Amiga-realted nonsense like joystick ports and SID sockets.
That's another thing putting me off a CW... I just want a floppy-access
device, not half an Amiga thrown into the mix.
cheers
Jules