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- Path: grafix.xs4all.nl!rdingem
- Date: Sat, 23 Mar 96 23:48:12 GMT+1
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- Subject: Re: Changing from Mac to Amiga
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- From: rdingem@grafix.xs4all.nl (Ruud Dingemans)
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- In a message of 21 Mar 96 Joseph Crowe wrote to All:
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- >> when I bring the disk over to the Amiga, the Amiga can't read it. It there
- >> a solution? Thanks.
-
- JC> Which MacOS version and AmigaOS version do you run? I ask because
- JC> with MacOS system 7.5, I believe, began shipping with PC Exchange which
- JC> allows the Mac to write PC formatted floppies. With AmigaOS 2.1, the
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- No, this was with MacOS 7.1. The program was called "Apple File
- Exchange" - PC FE was it's successor, more or less.
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- Shapeshifter also formats its DD floppies in a format that a
- Mac (with Superdrive, on anything past a Mac Plus) can read and
- write directly. These floppies can also be read on the Workbench
- using Nico Salmoria's AmiCDFS.
-
- Regards, Ruud
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