GreyGhost
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Technician said:
Jesus, what were thinking with those mice.
Not as odd looking as the "pregnant" mice and you get used to them after a while.
hex11 said:
Some later games needed upwards of 1 MB chip ram to run, and I don't know if there was ever such an upgrade for the A1000.
Most games ran without problems in a mix of chip and fast RAM, usually preferring fast RAM when available. While the Amiga's memory map allowed for up to 2Meg of chip RAM the OCS chipset only supported 512k, via a memory module in the front trapdoor or a lot of tedious soldering to piggyback RAM chips (which I've seen done), and with the A1000's Agnus chip being dual-inline as opposed to the A500's PLCC chip upgrading really wasn't an option.
Sodaholic said:
the issue of game compatibility.
There are three main issues - how much RAM, does the game require a specific or minimum Kickstart version and does it use AGA graphics modes.
The venerable A1000 can accommodate up to 8Meg of fast RAM in side-mounted expansion modules (it looks like Randy87 has a couple), so memory isn't a problem. Provided you can lay your hands on the disks, the A1000 runs all of the 1.* kickstarts (and v2.05 if soft booted into fast Ram), while the A1200 is the obvious choice for games that require Kickstart 3.0+ and/or AGA.
Is it possible to write Amiga formatted disks on PC?
Not without a compatible floppy drive and an adapter/controller.
Warning: A lot of floppy related questions ahead
The physical disk itself inside the case, or just the format? I already know that the format is totally different, but a floppy is just an electromagnetic disk, is it not?
Just the format. Apart from having a different number of sectors per track, there are odd quirks such as the directory starting on track 40.
If one were to use some blank generic 3.5 floppies, and put it in an Amiga to write to it, would it work?
Yes, though some drives don't like high density disks.
Does "high density" refer to the disk's physical qualities, or just how physically small the disk sectors are, or does it refer to the hard outer shell of the 3.5 floppies?
It refers to the storage capacity, which is 2MB unformatted or 1.76MB if you can find a high density Amiga drive to format it in.
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