Magazines Archives Amazing Computing ( EN ) Amazing Computing Vol 01 07 1986
I was expecting a 5.25 drive ihat would work as a 360K IBM drive under the transformer and would also configure as a 440K drive under Amiga DOS 1.2. What I got was a 360K IBM drive under the transformer that would also configure as a 720K IBM drive under MS_DOS 3.2. That was exciting but this was Amazing. My new drive auto configures, with absolutely no help from rr.e, as an 8BOK Amiga drive under both Amiga DOS 1.1 and 1.2 Beta. The disk icon comes up on the workbench screen and everything. The operating systems seems to think it's a 3.5 inch drive. The only minor annoyance is that the system doesn't recognize disk changes in DF2: but DOS 1.2 Beta contains a new command called Diskchange which allows disk swapping in the 5.25 drive. The Commodore 5.25 needs the Diskchange command also but it will only format to 440K and can only be used as an Amiga drive under DOS 1.2. To prove that 1 really had BBOK available I used Diskcopy lo copy a Opaint slide show disk which was 95% full from DFO: to DF2:. Then I started the show and every picture displayed perfectly. Believe It Or Not! Thanks - AC- Joe Rothman Sysop of A.M.U.G. BBS for the Mighty Amiga New York Dear Mr. Hicks, I wish to discuss the subject of standards for Amiga software. There is appearing on the market an increasing number of software products for the Amiga, and many appear to be simply ported over from who knows where. I recently, purchased by mail a copy of Harvsoft's lnfobase. If functions basically as advertised, but it is definitely not something that takes advantage of the Amiga's capabilities. It's basically a simple file handling package written in AmigaBasic.
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