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- From: nggilber@cca.rockwell.com (Neal G. Gilbertson)
- Subject: Re: Can a MAC read Amiga floppies?
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- Date: Fri, 22 Mar 1996 18:39:27 GMT
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- In article <4iue3e$6d@northshore.shore.net>, farren@shore.net (Mike Farren) writes:
- > 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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-
- Here's what I do, going either way.
-
- Run cross dos and save files to PC formated disk.
- Remove disk.
- Insert in mac.
- Open window of disk move files to mac disk.
- (of course you have to have a: "read/write PC disk" function running in the
- Mac too. FSK? It's = to cross dos on the Amiga.)
-
- Reverse process for going other way.
-
- Files often have to be converted to work before and/or after import.
-
- I use it all the time and it works like a charm!!
-
- NG
-