Re: IIgs Software Basics

[shack@deimos.frii.com (Randy Shackelford)]

In article <9AUG199619330871@vax2.concordia.ca>,
Mitchell Spector <spec@vax2.concordia.ca> wrote:

>    Your only partly correct. The AE High Density drive was merely a
>SuperDrive clone, with a Sony mechanism that was similar to the one
>Apple used (though slightly lesser). In that sense it _can_ work with
>1.44MB diskettes, but you will require the Apple II 3.5 Controller 
>Card in order to do so.

Are you sure they're Sonys? AE made a big deal of how their drives were
cheaper than Apple's, and the ones I've seen have good ol' manual inject.

>    The AE driver allowed it to format a non-standard 1.6MB GCR format.
>That is fairly useless, unless you know friends who also have the same
>floppy drive and driver. I wonder though, would a true SuperDrive be
>able to read/write 1.66MB GCR if AE's driver is installed? (connected
>to the GS's Smartport, not the FDHD controller card).

Yep I remember 'em saying you couldn't boot from a 1.6 disk either. Pretty
pointless to have marketed it if you ask me
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