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- From: alla0008@student.tc.umn.edu (Graham Allan)
- Subject: Re: Emulators
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- Date: Fri, 20 Nov 1992 20:43:48 GMT
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- In article <1992Nov20.152411.18298@crc.ac.uk> naffara@crc.ac.uk (Dr. N.A. Affara) writes:
- >Hello,
- >Since RiscOS 3.1 allows you to format Atari floppies, does this mean that
- >Acorn (or someone else) are going to make an Atari emulator?
- >If they aren't, it seems a bit pointless being able to format floppies like
- >this. You can also format PC disks and they have a PC emulator...
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- I think the ability to format and otherwise deal with Atari discs is just
- a bonus feature - as the Atari format is 99% identical to DOS, it wasn't
- any more effort add the handling of Atari discs.
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- Graham allan@mnhep8.hep.umn.edu
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