CompuServe Thread

Diane- If you have at least the meg they require AND they're NOT AGA only, they should work. Look for a software rental near you and inquire about the programs you wish to purchase. If they're friendly they'll inform whether or not given programs will run with your configuration. Some stores apply the rental price toward purchase. Bear in mind that, around here at least, these are not the cheapest place to buy. If they are helpful, etc., then they are worth supporting. I have rented many pieces of software and have saved quite a bit by weeding out junk via the 'try before you buy' method. Hope this helps. P.S. No, I don't own or work at a software rental establishment. —->Everett, co-pilot of the A1200 on AutoPilot—->

If you are talking about blank disks, the 1.2 should work fine. In theory the media used for the 2 meg disks is not as compatable with the Amiga low-density drives and might give you more errors. Just look for the 2D (stands for double-density) disks (double sided too, of course) and you should be fine. // -Karl \X/ Amiga and Autopilot: The *only* way to fly!

Diane, Are you talking about the requirements for running a program, or the storage capacity of the actual floppy disks themselves? If you're talking about the floppies…while yes, you can use the HD disks (1.44 Meg in an IBM machine)…you'd be wasting your money. Most places I've seen carry both the HD disks and the DD disks (760K in an IBM). The DD disks are what you really want. The 2.88 Meg disks probably won't work right…but I don't know that for sure. If you're talking the memory requirements of a program….that's true, since the Amiga is a multi-tasking machine…it's not at all unusual for a program to require higher amounts of memory…it may have to "live" with some other program also running. That, plus the fact that most programs try to do as much as they can…thus higher memory requirements. Don