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From: simon@copper.columbia.edu (Thor Simon)
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Subject: Re: CBM 1581 and etc on Amiga
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Date: 13 Mar 89 22:05:43 GMT
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Look at the parallel port pinouts in the amiga manual.  Several of the
pins are actually the 64 type serial port with a different shape.
Somebody at CA just forgot to write the drivers.  Unfortunately, 64
emulator 2 uses this port in 64 mode, but only includes *printer*
drivers for amiga mode.  AAARGH!  I have a serial hard drive I wanted
to use...maybe 1.4 will support serial drives (hint,hint) after all, why put it
into the hardware if they don't mean to support it...

Also:  The 1010 will read 1581 disks, so the 1581 must be able to read
1010 disks...
Furthermore, the 1020 can(just barely, the GCR code is about 1/2
supported by the 1020 guts)read 1541 mode disks, and a 1571 could
easily read I*M disks, as a 1020 is just a decerebrated 1571.

Now if we could just use the GEOS fonts on the amiga...