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  • Priest of the Order of the Butterfly
    Priest of the Order of the Butterfly
    bash64
    Posts: 934 from 2010/10/29
    From: USA
    I searched and found a short discussion on this, but..

    Many computer platforms have software that can read amiga floppy disks with a standard PC floppy drive.

    What about Powerbook G4 and usb floppy?

    I still hae a lot of floppy disks and , no, it is all not available from ADF files.
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  • »10.04.13 - 16:31
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  • MorphOS Developer
    Krashan
    Posts: 1107 from 2003/6/11
    From: Białystok...
    Many computer platforms have software that can read amiga floppy disks with a standard PC floppy drive.

    It is not really true. It is achieved either by hacking drive hardware, or by using special FDD controller on a card, like CatWeasel. Both methods play directly with drive signals, which is in my opinion impossible with USB drive.
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  • »10.04.13 - 16:45
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  • Priest of the Order of the Butterfly
    Priest of the Order of the Butterfly
    bash64
    Posts: 934 from 2010/10/29
    From: USA
    Yes, I do remember having to install an internal floppy to do this.
    Rats.
    :-(
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  • »10.04.13 - 17:29
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  • Priest of the Order of the Butterfly
    Priest of the Order of the Butterfly
    CountRaven
    Posts: 566 from 2007/12/11
    From: Greece
    But ?I guess that a standard floppy connected straight on the Pegasos 1/2 controller would be supported on MorphOS right? (Not for reading Amiga disks but standard formatted PC floppies).
  • »10.04.13 - 19:28
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  • Paladin of the Pegasos
    Paladin of the Pegasos
    Amigaharry2
    Posts: 1224 from 2010/1/6
    From: EU-Austria (Wien)
    Yes, right! but only for PC-HD-floppy ......

    -> http://aminet.net/package/driver/media/trackdisk
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  • »10.04.13 - 20:10
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