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From: banksie@whitu.isor.vuw.ac.nz (Philip Banks)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.hardware
Subject: The Amiga Disk Format.
Message-ID: <1990Dec01.204937.5498@comp.vuw.ac.nz>
Date: 1 Dec 90 20:49:37 GMT
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	  Sorry to bother all you amiga people but I would like a little
	information about how you machine stores data on disk. Owning an 
	Archimedes and knowing a lot of Amiga friends means I want to shift
	a lot of data (pictures,sound files,...) between the two machines.
	Now while the Arc can read directly PC format disks not all of the 
	amiga owners I know can do that. This means I need some way of 
	reading amiga format disks directly.
	   Now I have been informed that your drive does not do screwy things
	like change drive speed dependant upon track like the macintosh does.
	But I have been told that you machine uses its blitter chip to decode
	the data stored on disk. IS this true? And if it is can I implement an
	algorithm to do in software the decoding that the chip does? Also
	any tips /advice on how the format is laid out would be appreciated.
	Could anyone who can help kindly email me at this address :-

	banksie%isor.vuw.ac.nz%rata.vuw.ac.nz%uunet.uu.net

	Sorry about the long address but the machine I am on appears to not
	be well 'known' among the internet sites of the world and to ensure
	that your email arrives I have to bounce it through a couple of sites.


	Thanking you in advance for your help.

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