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Reading MAC 800K disks



 >Jesse> In fact, the early MAC emulators for the Amiga did this rather
 >Jesse> well (of course, they had to shut off multitasking to do it :).
 >
 >Actually, it was the later mac emulators which did it... it took a
 >while for it to happen.
 
Actually, it was the middle emulators that did it, the later ones (Amax IV
and Emplant) removed the feature so that they could support multitasking.
:)  (they did include little programs to convert them to disk files, though,
if I remember correctly)
 
 >Cliff> Even then I'm not sure that the PC has the same sort of
 >Cliff> control over the floppy disk that the Amigas did.
 >
 >I'm not sure either... as far as I know, it is impossible for the vast
 >majority of PC drives to read Amiga disks.  (And as an owner of both,
 >I have a vested interest in that!  If I'm wrong, PLEASE correct me!)
 >If I understand correctly, it's hinges on some capability that most
 >manufacturers didn't include to reduce prices.
 
Actually, I don't know for sure, but I am almost sure that the PC could read
Amiga disks with the proper program.  I don't know this for sure, though.  I
know that they won't read normally, but I would think that they could if you
had a program for the PC to make them do it.  In fact, I think that the
Amiga emulator for the PC did just that.
 
||||| Jesse D. Sightler |||||


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