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- Ive got the amiga emulator, but it needs a workbench disk. Which i dont have.
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- > >Cliff> Even then I'm not sure that the PC has the same sort of
- > >Cliff> control over the floppy disk that the Amigas did.
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- > >I'm not sure either... as far as I know, it is impossible for the vast
- > >majority of PC drives to read Amiga disks. (And as an owner of both,
- > >I have a vested interest in that! If I'm wrong, PLEASE correct me!)
- > >If I understand correctly, it's hinges on some capability that most
- > >manufacturers didn't include to reduce prices.
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- > Actually, I don't know for sure, but I am almost sure that the PC could read
- > Amiga disks with the proper program. I don't know this for sure, though. I
- > know that they won't read normally, but I would think that they could if you
- > had a program for the PC to make them do it. In fact, I think that the
- > Amiga emulator for the PC did just that.
- >
- > ||||| Jesse D. Sightler |||||
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