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- From: scampi@sanity.com (Mathew Hendry)
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- Subject: Re: Help: Need to read Amiga Disks on a Mac.
- Date: Tue, 2 Jan 96 00:10:48
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- Efrain Gonzalez (Efrain@soho.ios.com) wrote:
- :
- :
- : I would like to know if there are any extensions, control panels, or
- : apps for Mac which will allow me to read Amiga Disks on my Mac. I want to
- : download some Amiga shareware on my Mac, and then just transfer it since I
- : don't have any comm stuff for my Amiga. Thank you for you help.
-
- I'm not sure if Macs have the capability (in hardware) to read Amiga formatted
- floppies. Maybe someone more familiar with Macs can clarify this. PCs
- certainly can't do it.
-
- The easiest option, therefore, is to copy the files onto MSDOS formatted
- 720K floppies (these are supported in Mac File Exchange (?)). Your Amiga
- can read and write to these quite happily with suitable software. If
- you are using AmigaOS 2.1 or higher, this capability is built-in in the
- form of CrossDOS. If you are using 2.0 or older, you could buy CrossDOS
- separately or try installing MessyDOS, which is on Aminet at:
-
- msh-1-30.lha misc/emu 120K 175+r/w filesystem for pc floppies. 1.30 is
-
- Quite how you're going to transfer that across in the first place is another
- problem, though ;)
-
- --Mat.
-