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- From: r_voisey@csd.uwe.ac.uk (R Voisey)
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.acorn
- Subject: Re: Emulators
- Message-ID: <1992Nov23.133522.24929@csd.uwe.ac.uk>
- Date: 23 Nov 92 13:35:22 GMT
- References: <1992Nov20.152411.18298@crc.ac.uk>
- Organization: University of the West of England, Bristol
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- In article <1992Nov20.152411.18298@crc.ac.uk> naffara@crc.ac.uk (Dr. N.A. Affara) writes:
- >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 suspect the main reason they put it in was because it must have been
- 2 minutes work. ST floppies are virtually identical to PC floppies (by
- default).
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- Has anyone tried reading 'unusual' ST floppies (ie variable sectors/track)
- with RO3.1? 3.0 failed miserably..
-
- Bob
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