Peter da Silva wrote:
On the Amiga, they wrote the entire track in one pass, so you only had to put the inter-sector gap at the end of the track. That gave you 1760K on a 2Mo flippy. You could also drop most of the sector headers by modifying AmigaDOS and get 1920K in a 2Mo floppy, so long as you didn't care that you could only read it on a similarly modified AmigaDOS.
Ahh, a Amiga user, maybe well should tell them how the Amiga uses a 880k disk format with its standard internel drive,
I thought I just did. :) 880 n 1Mo gives you 1760 in 2 Mo, and 960 in 1 Mo gets you 1920 in 2 Mo.
My math is as poor as my spelling, I thought as my Amigas have no (lets call them 1.44) HD drives that breaking it down to something close to 800k would help with this thread.
My 1200 is a tad older than yours?
I don't have one any more, but I had a low-serial-number A1000, not the first production run (it had EHB mode) but pretty early.
My 2 Mo drive was an external.
Catweasle? I've never owned a1000 but believe the a4000 (they sold the toaster new up to a couple of years ago) has a 1.44 as its internal.
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