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- From: krafsur@iastate.edu (King Henry V)
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.hardware
- Subject: Re: MAC emulator troubles
- Date: 8 Feb 96 23:53:39 GMT
- Organization: Iowa State University, Ames, Iowa
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- In <4f7j9b$t2n@tbd120.tbd.ford.com> Chris \"Big-Kahuna\" Rampson <crampson@ford.com> writes:
- Just get a amiga high density floppy drive....
-
- >I have tried and tried to get a Mac emulator working, but the problem I have is
- >always the same - how to get the Mac software loaded on the Amiga?
-
- >I have a Mac-2-Dos with a Mac 800K drive - doesn't work. The drive works fine
- >on my parent's MAC.
-
- >I then purchased an AMAX II. I can get it to boot up (on an amiga/Mac floppy
- >hybrid), but it says the disk in the MAC floppy is unrecognized and do I want
- >to format it. Any answer leads to a freeze up and subsequent reboot.
-
- >I then purchased an AMAX IV. It doesn't use a MAC drive, it uses the internal
- >Amiga drive. It uses a program to copy a MAC floppy into a file for use by the
- >AMAX hardware, but alas - no MAC floppy is recognized and I get a "Not a HFS
- >disk" or something to that effect. I am using an A2000/MegaMidgetRacer 25Mhz
- >2.5Mb/GVP SII SCSI w/8Mb 16-bit mem. The internal drive is DD NOT HD. I am by
- >no means a newbie at computers, but this one has me stumped! Please help and
- >respond via e-mail. TIA.
-
- >--
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- > _/_/_/ _/ _/ Chris "Big Kahuna" Rampson M.S.
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- > _/ _/ _/ _/_/ _/ _/_/ NO cutdowns, flames or insults
- >_/ _/ _/ _/ _/ _/_/ NO such thing as a stupid question!
- > _/_/_/ _/ _/ _/ _/ _/_/_/ "NOT an OFFICIAL FORD spokesperson"
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- Ed Krafsur
- krafsur@iastate.edu
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