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The only HD drive ever available for Amiga was sold with some 4000 units - a modded Chinon FZ357A spinning at half rpm because nobody at commodore knew how to u
by rasz 3y ago
The only HD drive ever available for Amiga was sold with some 4000 units - a modded Chinon FZ357A spinning at half rpm because nobody at commodore knew how to update PLL circuit in Denise. 1.76MB capacity was reached by not using standard PC format.
Microsoft itself was shipping software on ordinary PC floppies formatted for 1.68MB https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Distribution_Media_Format https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Distribution_Media_Format
- Cockbrand 3y agoMy A3000 has an HD floppy drive. I was surprised to find that out, as I hadn't been aware that Amigas with these drives existed.
- snvzz 3y agoNot Denise, Paula. Denise is the video chip. Paula handles interrupts, audio, the floppy data signal (control logic signals are in CIA) as well as the uart.
- bcrl 3y agoPaula being the only chip that had absolutely zero changes from the Amiga 1000 to the 4000. That fact alone is a sad example of Commodore's mismanagement of the platform. Well, except for the CIA which traces its lineage even further back to the C64.
- snvzz 3y agoTry Commodore The Inside Story (book) for more depressing knowledge. Management just didn't let their engineers/architects get things done.