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- From: sledford@iglou.iglou.com (Steve L. Edford)
- Subject: Re: Need to get graphics from Mac/PC to Amiga
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- Date: Fri, 8 Mar 1996 11:33:33 GMT
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- greenh49@wharton.upenn.edu (Jeffrey Greenhouse) writes:
-
- >Hi,
- > I am hoping that someone out there can help me. I have a Power
- >Macintosh and access to a Pentium 90, both networked, that I do graphics
- >work on. I need to find a way to get graphics from either of these to an
- >Amiga 2500 w/ Video Toaster that is not networked and, from what I can
- >tell, can't read mac or PC formatted disks. Are there any utilities for
- >the Mac or the PC that can let them read and write to Amiga formatted
- >disks? Any help would be greatly appreciated. Thank you,
-
- This can be done using MSDOS floppies as the medium. I would suspect that
- your Amiga 2500 has at least OS 2.1 if it has a Toaster in it. CrossDOS
- came standard with OS 2.1. If you have a high density drive in the Amiga,
- you can use the 1.44MB MSDOS floppies. If it's just double density, you
- can still use the 720K.
-
- Your PowerMac should have PC-Exchange which allows access to MSDOS 1.44MB
- or 720K. You could transfer the files on the MSDOS disks between any of
- the three systems.
-
- A better solution if you could afford it would be (providing the Pentium
- has a SCSI controller) to use either a SyQuest or Zip drive. These will
- work on any of these three systems with SCSI. This would allow between 95
- to 127 megs of data on each cartidge at a time for greater efficiency.
-
- If you need more details on setting this up, I could try and help. I've
- done lots of strange things, like transferring a PC zip archive from my
- Mac HD partition directly to a 1.44MB PC floppy on my Amiga. :-)
-
- > Jeffrey Greenhouse
- > greenh49@wharton.upenn.edu
- --
-
- Steve Edford
- sledford@iglou.com
-