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- From: fgd3@nifty.UUCP (Fabbian G. Dufoe, III)
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.applications
- Subject: Re: CD Roms readable on a PC ?
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- References: <jechawke.722092383@unix2.tcd.ie>
- Date: 19 Nov 92 18:23:58 EST
- Organization: Fabbian G. Dufoe, III
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- In article <jechawke.722092383@unix2.tcd.ie> jechawke@unix2.tcd.ie (Lone Rider) writes:
- >Does anyone know if I can read a CD-Rom for the Amiga (eg FISH disks)
- >on an IBM PC ? (the PC has a Soundblaster Pro CD-Rom drive)
- >I can't afford to buy a CD-ROM drive for the Amiga, so I figured
- >maybe it would be possible to stick the CD into the PC's CD-Rom
- >drive and copy the files I want to an 800k 3.5" and then use
- >dod2dos or similar to read them on the Amiga.
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- It should work, unless the CD-ROM uses some special extensions to the
- file system (I don't think the Fish disks do). But you'll only get 720K on
- the floppy disks you put in the PC, not 800K.
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