Re: Did Commodore cheat with the quad density floppies?

From: Mia Magnusson <mia_at_plea.se>
Date: Thu, 10 Jan 2019 19:40:30 +0100
Message-ID: <20190110194030.00003198@plea.se>
Den Wed, 9 Jan 2019 12:52:46 +0100 skrev Francesco Messineo
<francesco.messineo@gmail.com>:
> see how they did the "burst mode" between 1571 and C128. On the 1571
> there's an additional 6526 with only two pins used, they didn't even
> bother to substitute one of the 6522.

That was surely done to make the 1570/1571 as compatible to a 1541 as
possible, to make for example copy protection work better.



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