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- From: Job Hanssen <hanssen@bart.nl>
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.emulations
- Subject: Re: Help: Need to Read Amiga Disks on
- Date: 2 Jan 1996 23:29:54 GMT
- Organization: Job Dimensional Computing
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- > EG> I would like to read Amiga OS disks on my Mac. Does anyone
- > EG> know of an extension, control panel, or any program for mac which does
- > EG> this? I would like to download Amiga shareware via my Mac since I don't
- > EG> have any comm stuff for the Amiga, and then just use it on my Amiga.
- > EG> Thank you for your help.
- > No way man, only a Amiga make's such things posisble.
- > If you are using ShapeShifter then you can use the MAC-handler.
- > But if you are using only a mac (and not ShapeShifter in Amiga)
- > than there is no solution.
-
- I'm sorry Sjoerd, but I have to correct you here. Indeed reading Amiga disks
- is not possible on a Mac. But when Efrain just wants to do some downloading,
- he doesn't have to read, only to write. This means he could write on a
- standard MS-DOS formatted disk, then port it to his Amiga and read it using
- CrossDos.
- Also you are not correct in stating that Amiga is the only platform that makes
- it possible to read and write disk from other platforms. The Mac is perfectly
- capable of reading and writing MS-Dos disk, and a PC can also read and write
- Mac disks (there seems to be some tool around for doing that.
-
- Don't get me wrong here, the Amiga is still my favorite, I just want to
- prevent the spreading of information which is not correct. Specially on a
- subject that keeps comming back to these newsgroups.
-
- All the best,
-
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- Job Hanssen - hanssen@nbart.nl
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