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Those Sloppy These Floppy Disc Drives are not the original Amstrad standard.

Yet they were far more cheap cheaper and are nowadays easier to use.

Especially the 3½" (3"1/2 ?) as those these disk are still availlable available in some retailers. You can also easily find such drives in any garbage if you properly scavenge old rusty computers.

Those Disk size These Disks couldn't be side switched manually.The older models where using used only one side (360 Ko ?KB)By double Double side (DD) or even High Density where were available. [[image:3.5.jpg|200px|thumb|Internal 3.5" drive]][[image:5,25_cable.jpg|200px|thumb|advertisement for 5,25" drive cable for CPC in 1990]]

*DD = 720ko720KB*HD : 1,44 MoMB

*er...I don't remember (editors please ?)360KB*1,2 Mo was the maximum...on my old PC...2MB

But or our beloved CPC can't understand easily the concept of High Density Disk with 1,44Mo avalaible44MB available...

Tada, a proper DD disk with 720 Ko KB (if your OS allows it).Or a common 2x180Ko (2x 178Ko ?) 2x178KB with [[AMSDOS|AMSDOS]] (stock CPC firmware Loco Basic, ) - if you have a manual side switcher button too of course)to read second side of disk. 

A great advantage at the time (in the 80's) was to get access to CP/M sofware library, as most of those were on such Floppy DiscDisks.

Also, those Floppy Discs Disks were far cheaper than the exotic 3", but... few CPC users actually got own such drives.

It is common to get 720Ko 720KB disk (using the 2 sides, so 80 tracks)

Many Modern CPC users replace their old 3" by with an external 3"1/2, often adding a Disk drive A-B / B-A switcher (allowing to the use the of an external disk Drive as if it were the internal one = Drive A) and/or a side switcher to allow to the use of a 3"1/2 disk like a 3" disk... switching manually the sides as needed by good old 3" disk drives (yet a decent sofware software can do it).

The side switcher and A-B drive's switchers are needed only if you use old softwares, as most of them couldn't really figure they They were loaded from B drivers, or has no such feature as double sided drivesdesigned for good old 3" drive so the 720KB DD external 3"1/2 is not implemented.

They were designed for good old 3" drive so the 720Ko DD extgernal 3"1/2 is not implementedBut modern software designers can allow this fairly easily.

Orion Prime use Rick Dangerous 128+ (1.1 add-on) seems to allow the Double sides feature, enabling a simple 720Ko disc with no manual side switchesgame to be loaded from the B drive.

It is to As modifying all the CPC-scene to design their softwares to include those optionssoftware library of the good old times seems impractical, allowing more un-modded drives yet modern era software have to be simply used as external B drives with no need to add extra buttons and cable montages on the Amstraduse this.

As modifying all the software library of the good gay old time seems impractical, yet modern era software have to use this== Software released on 3.5" disk==

== Softwares released on 3"1/2 * [[Orion Prime]] - This pure awsomeness even uses a full DD disk=='s 80 tracks with more than 700KB of Data, but you have to have a proper DD disk drive, as some older models may lack this feature...

*[[Orion Prime]]This pure awsomness even use a full DD == Software released on 5.25" disk's 80 tracks with more than 700Ko of Data, yet you have to get a proper DD disk Drive, as some older models may lack this feature... ==

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