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Am I reading this right that I can take a "standard" 3.5" floppy from a PC, hook it into this board, and it will read my old Amiga formatted disks?? I thought this was impossible to do with modern drives. Anyone know how this gets around all, the crazy hacks Amiga drives could do? I'm not a hardware guy, so I don't fully understand the issue. I just know I have shoeboxes full of unlabeled floppies in the basement that I would love to preserve.



It works because it is itself a floppy controller - it doesn't go through your PC. It has complete control - just like the Amiga did! :)




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