Unusual Amstrad 3" Disks

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    protos or reviewers
     
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    They look like the disks that were sent to magazines for use in previews.
     
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    Wow, a friend had an Amstrad CPC many, many years ago and I never realised that the disks weren't actually standard 3.5" floppies. I even thought that they were superior to the double density 5.25" floppies that our computer used. Interesting video.
     
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    You can build a simple cable for 3.5 drives,its a off-shelf controller chip.
    I had a CPC 464 with a Vortex dual 5.25 and a 6128 with missing drive where I modified a PC cable and drive.
     
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