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- From: adamh@spots.ab.ca (Adam Hough)
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.misc
- Subject: Re: Can a MAC read Amiga floppies?
- Date: 22 Mar 1996 14:55:10 GMT
- Organization: Achilles Internet Services, Ottawa, ON
- Message-ID: <832.6654T1207T2462@spots.ab.ca>
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- > 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.
- >Alas, the software tended to break on post 1.3 machines. There are
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- Before they decided to remove support for it, the AMIA section of Emplant's
- disk transfer tool worked really well with the old AMAX cartridge under
- 3.0 on my 4000. It certainly had no problems reading the old Mac 800k
- disks. Besides, other than really, really old software (which no doubt isn't
- System 7 compatible) I've not actually had to use the old 800k floppy on
- either Macs or emulated Macs for some time now.
-
- Regards,
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- Adam Hough Under-employed computer bum
- Internet: adamh@spots.ab.ca *THIS MESSAGE REFLECTS MY VIEWS ONLY*
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