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- From: farren@shore.net (Mike Farren)
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.misc,comp.sys.amiga.games
- Subject: Re: Can a MAC read Amiga floppies?
- Date: 22 Mar 1996 09:39:42 -0500
- Organization: Focus Studios
- Message-ID: <4iue3e$6d@northshore.shore.net>
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- fmlazar@ritz.mordor.com (Frank Lazar) writes:
-
- >farren@shore.net (Mike Farren) wrote:
-
- >> >unfortunately, no - but thanks to its amazing versatility, the Amiga can
- >> >read Mac floppies.
- >>
- >> Not the 800K ones, it can't.
-
- > Not neccesarily true, in addition to using emulators, there was also Mac
- >to-Disk which connected an Apple 800k drive to an Amiga floppy port.
-
- Well, that's not the Amiga reading Mac disks, then, is it? At least, not
- without some hardware kludge to allow a real Mac floppy drive to be
- connected. What you can't do is put an 800K Mac floppy into an Amiga's
- floppy disk drive and read it. Not reliably, anyhow, and mostly not
- at all. The variable speed of the original Mac floppies makes it
- so.
-
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