From: joeles@cup.portal.com (Joel Edward Swan)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.hardware
Subject: Re: Floppy size in 1200?
Date: Sun,  8 Nov 92 18:27:06 PST
Organization: The Portal System (TM)
  <36617@cbmvax.commodore.com> <1992Nov3.142024.17682@hubcap.clemson.edu>
  <Bx5ysJ.DtE@news.iastate.edu> <13414@ecs.soton.ac.uk>

>In <Bx5ysJ.DtE@news.iastate.edu> barrett@iastate.edu (Marc N. Barrett) writes:
>
>>In article <1992Nov3.142024.17682@hubcap.clemson.edu>
>>charlet@hubcap.clemson.edu (Charles E "Rick" Taylor IV) writes:
>>>grr@cbmvax.commodore.com (George Robbins) writes:
>>>
>>>>In article <1992Nov2.090012.44313@kuhub.cc.ukans.edu>
>>>>2ftqkiln@kuhub.cc.ukans.edu writes:
>>>>> Before the A1200 was officially announced in Europe someone
>>>>> had posted specs about the 1200 which were not official. In that
>>>>> post it was said that the 1200 had an 880K floppy instead of the
>>>>> new 1.76M floppy.
>>>
>>>>It has an 880Kb floppy.
>>>
>>>>> (oh please, oh please have the 1.76M drive):)
>>>
>>>>Sorry about that, dude...
>>>
>>>Arrrgh.  This is my *only* gripe about the A1200.  So now all these AGA game
s
>>>are going to have to fit on an 880K floppy?  And so much for CrossDos
>>>actually being *useful*. :(
>
>My thinking is that all this AA Sound Stuff and HD Disks ties up
>(naturally) to Paula. CBM have not released an AA Paula, probably, I
>suspect, because it is still under development... and guess what thay
>are putting in it? Both the new (speculated) sound upgrade (16 bit 16
>voice PCM... who knows?) __AND__ an upgrade to enable Paula to handle
>HD Floppies at _FULL_ speed... this must be possible now with the
>extra bandwidth such as that given to the blitter...
>
>So folks, if my speculation is correct, for owners of true 32-bit
>(databus) machines with AA chips, we could soon have a Super-Paula
>giving us superb sound and full speed HD disks (let's face it, low
>speed HD disks are a bit naff)...

If this is the case, then ALL (Paula upgradable) AGA Amigas should start
having the dual speed HD's in them.  Why?  So that if a AGA Paula is put in
place, the OS can spin the HD dual speed drive at it's normal, higher speed
and read/write hd floppies at the faster speed.

>All speculation, but stanger things have happened
>
>(CBM may even leapfrog forward to a 3.52Mb disk (like IBMs 2.88), but
>I doubt it! (although I hope to be corrected))

I highly doubt it too.  They seem to aim more at the low end game market.
Not sure the more expensive disks would sell well there.

>So hold yer horses, and see what happens!
>
>----
>
>E.F.Pritchard                       ///
>efp90@uk.ac.soton.ecs           \\\/// Amiga     I seriously need something
>University of Southampton        \xx/            to go on this side of my
>England.                                         signature, any ideas?

-Joel
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