Amiga 1200 HD Question

Dreedo · 04 February 2010, 15:48

Hi, i was wondering that are the down sides to the Amiga 1200 HD made by Escom, i know its pretty much the same, but instead of double density drives it uses high density floppies.

I heard it has software incompatibility, anyone have further information on this?

thomas · 04 February 2010, 16:38

It uses PC floppy drives with a hack on the motherboard to make them work with AmigaDOS disks. But the drives are missing an important signal which makes many games with copy protection fail to load.

Dreedo · 04 February 2010, 16:40

Ok, thank you.

ipod_sock · 07 February 2010, 00:25

This is exactly why I'm getting a Commodore and just updating it with wb3.1, worth it and easy...right?

prowler · 07 February 2010, 00:34

You can restore the compatibility of the Amiga Technologies A1200 with copy protected floppy disks with one of Stedy's floppy drive adapters.
http://eab.abime.net/showthread.php?t=39042

04 February 2010, 15:48	#1
Dreedo Registered User Join Date: Jan 2010 Location: West Yorkshire, UK Age: 30 Posts: 657	Amiga 1200 HD Question Hi, i was wondering that are the down sides to the Amiga 1200 HD made by Escom, i know its pretty much the same, but instead of double density drives it uses high density floppies. I heard it has software incompatibility, anyone have further information on this?

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04 February 2010, 16:38	#2
thomas Registered User Join Date: Jan 2002 Location: Germany Posts: 7,026	It uses PC floppy drives with a hack on the motherboard to make them work with AmigaDOS disks. But the drives are missing an important signal which makes many games with copy protection fail to load.

04 February 2010, 16:40	#3
Dreedo Registered User Join Date: Jan 2010 Location: West Yorkshire, UK Age: 30 Posts: 657	Ok, thank you.

07 February 2010, 00:25	#4
ipod_sock 1st love = Psygnosis Join Date: Jan 2010 Location: Liverpool (work Manchester) Posts: 105	This is exactly why I'm getting a Commodore and just updating it with wb3.1, worth it and easy...right?

07 February 2010, 00:34	#5
prowler Global Moderator Join Date: Aug 2008 Location: Sidcup, England Posts: 10,300	You can restore the compatibility of the Amiga Technologies A1200 with copy protected floppy disks with one of Stedy's floppy drive adapters. http://eab.abime.net/showthread.php?t=39042

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