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Amiga disks were pushing 880KB onto a floppy whereas the PC floppies only wrote 720KB. Amiga's disk controller was the more flexible one and could easily read v
by yason 6y ago
Amiga disks were pushing 880KB onto a floppy whereas the PC floppies only wrote 720KB. Amiga's disk controller was the more flexible one and could easily read various formats, including MS-DOS but PCs couldn't adapt to reading Amiga disks.
Of course, PC's later had double-density disks that could host 1.4MB but Amiga only ever had single-density disks in practice.
- dragonwriter 6y ago> Amiga disks were pushing 880KB onto a floppy whereas the PC floppies only wrote 720KB. Amiga's disk controller was the more flexible one and could easily read various formats, including MS-DOS but PCs couldn't adapt to reading Amiga disks. Yes, they could; software to read/write alternative formats on the PC was, well, I’m not sure how common, but it was floating around. It wasn’t a controller issue, it was a DOS format issue. Similar software was even available for the 360KB (DOS formatted capacity) 5¼” floppies on PCs before 3½” drives were available. > Of course, PC's later had double-density disks that could host 1.4MB “high-density”, and 1.44MB DOS formatted capacity. > Amiga only ever had single-density disks in practice. “double-density”; single-density 3½” disks may have existed, but I don't think anyone used them in significant numbers.
- cbhl 6y agoI remember my dad had loads of double-density (800 KB) disks for his Mac LC in '92 -- we kept the cases with the disks well into the late 90s (long enough for me to find them and try inserting them into a Windows 95 machine at the age of 8).