Central Point Option Board

From: Mike Ford <mikeford_at_netwiz.net>
Date: Sun Feb 28 08:25:09 1999

>Fred Cisin wrote:
>>Commodore made some PC clones; but other than those, the Commodore disk
>>formats (Pet, 20, 64, 128, Amiga, ...) are NOT possible to do with
>>unmodified PC hardware. The Amiga disks are MFM, but they have a sector
>>header structure that is not compatible with the FDC. Compaticard will
>>NOT provide the necessary hardware capability, although MatchPoint,
>>CatWeasel, Apple Turnover, or CP Option board MIGHT. I doubt that
>>Teledisk has support for Matchpoint, Turnover, Option board, or CatWeasel.
>
>CatWeasel can read Amiga disks, that is it's main selling point on the PC.
>Does anyone have any experience with it on the PC side? Thier web page CAN
>NOT be trusted. I bought the Amiga verison expecting to be able to read
>all the different formats advertised only to discover that it did not
>include the necessary software. I consider that false advertising. It
>will read C-1541 disks quite nicely on the Amiga though, but IIRC that is
>IT!

I have a Central Point Option Board, still in the box though, I haven't
tried it yet. It says 400k and 800k all formats, but I thought that was
just Mac formats. Anybody know if this board had later software to handle
1.44 MB floppies?
Received on Sun Feb 28 1999 - 08:25:09 GMT