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Reading MAC 800k disks



Cliff,
 
 >Well it certainly won't happen between now and when 2.0 comes out.
 >Even then I'm not sure that the PC has the same sort of control over
 >the floppy disk that the Amigas did.  After 2.0 comes out we'd
 >probably be willing to pay some $$ to get this functionality, but I'd
 >also guess that just a simple program to read 800k Mac disks on a PC
 >would also generate some revenue, which then begs the question "if
 >it's doable, why hasn't someone done it?"  Specifically, why hasn't
 >someone written a program for the PC which reads an 800k formatted
 >floppy (writing is much less important).
 
Yeah, but the amount of profit such a device would make probably wouldn't be
worth the time and effort necessary to make it work (assuming that it is
possible on a PC).  That and the mere fact that it _TOTALLY_ precludes the
use of multitasking may be difficult to deal with (many people would keep
hollering "why doesn't it run in Windows?"  <G>).
 
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