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  1. Newsgroups: comp.sys.atari.st
  2. Path: sparky!uunet!charon.amdahl.com!pacbell.com!mips!apple!constellation!a.cs.okstate.edu!cummins
  3. From: cummins@a.cs.okstate.edu (CUMMINS JOHN WILLI)
  4. Subject: Re: Gemulator
  5. References: <2867@isgtec.isgtec.com> <1992Jul23.051640.12245@ucsu.Colorado.EDU> <2884@isgtec.isgtec.com>
  6. Message-ID: <1992Jul26.190816.12243@a.cs.okstate.edu>
  7. Organization: Oklahoma State University, Computer Science, Stillwater
  8. Date: Sun, 26 Jul 92 19:08:16 GMT
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  11. In article <2884@isgtec.isgtec.com> ken@isgtec.com (Ken Newman) writes:
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  13. >
  14. >Darek Mihocka has informed me in email that the Gemulator board will
  15. >support reading MAC disks, but using different techniques. He claimed
  16. >that IBM drives can read MAC disks directly (software only required).
  17.  
  18. Oddly.. this does seem to be true... since the "new mac superdrives" appear
  19. to be "normal hi density drives" Hence, if you have a hi-density (1.44 meg)
  20. drive in your Mac Emulation box... Fancy GCR goodies are not required unless
  21. perhaps you need to read 800k mac floppies.  Don't know how to get around that
  22. one!
  23.  
  24. So while GCR limits you to 800k disks... the PC goodies for reading mac disks
  25. limit you to 1.6 (2Meg?) disks.
  26.  
  27. jc
  28.