Notices by Ingo Paschke (ipaschke@mastodon.social)

@aral No, this was a dispute between the German tax authority and the Mastodon gGmbH by all accounts.

Please stop spreading misinformation about the EU. Baselessly blaming the EU for everything is a far right tactic.

@thomasfuchs Anything that doesn't run an older version of a current operating system.

@SuperDicq I think it's a valid choice of using modern mass storage because for some people, that doesn't take away too much from the original experience. And double density 3,5" disks in working order are getting pretty hard to find these days.

@SuperDicq Exactly. The Greaseweazle is an inexpensive and really interesting device for working with any kind of floppy format, I think it's well worth getting. Or emulate the floppy drive with a Gotek floppy emulator, another popular choice.

@SuperDicq I meant that it would have been possible to format an Amiga disk with the Amiga's logical format but the PCs physical sector layout. But I guess Kickstart doesn't support booting from that.

@SuperDicq Technically true on a logical level, but this assumes that you can actually write the on disk format which a normal PC floppy controller can't do. So misleading, I guess? The Amiga, on the other hand, can read normal 720KB PC formatted disks, but I don't think it can boot from them.

@SuperDicq I guess that's just what they went with, just the same as their 5 1/4" format, just double the tracks. As an interesting aside, Microsoft invented an on-disk format that allowed for 1680KB on 1,44MB disks to distribute their software: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Distribution_Media_Format

@SuperDicq Normal PC floppy controllers make certain assumptions about the on disk format that the Amiga didn't have to follow because it used custom hardware. So to squeeze more bytes out of a floppy disk, they placed sectors closer together than a standard IBM PC compatible floppy disk controller could read or write.

@SuperDicq Normal PC floppy controllers can't write Amiga 800KB disks, you can buy or make a greaseweazle USB floppy controller for that. https://github.com/keirf/greaseweazle

@jyn @noracodes @stchris Very cool. This list could be so much longer of you included the operating system and hardware (scheduler, drivers, interrupts, PHY, routers...). Hardware is mostly seen as a black box by programmers today that magically runs the code.