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- From: Jason.Price@launchpad.unc.edu (Jason Price)
- Subject: Re: Is it possible to get an Amiga to read an MS-DOS formatted disk ?
- Message-ID: <1993Jan11.154013.16098@samba.oit.unc.edu>
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- Date: Mon, 11 Jan 1993 15:40:13 GMT
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- >> As the subject line says , Is it possible to get an Amiga to read IBM
- >> formatted disks ?. And if so how do I go about doing it ?. Any advice
- >> would be appreciated. Thanks.
- >Yepp, it's not only possible, it's totaly transparent too. Just get a
- >copy of MultiDOS (should be available anywhere...) and your Amy will
- >never notice the difference...
- >CrossDOS is another product that does the same (included in Release
- >2.1 and 3.0 of AmyOS:-)
-
- Although, MultiDOs does seem to crash my A500 512/chip 512/fast, 2.0. But
- only sometimes, when I do alot of closing windows. But I've never tried using
- it on 1.3 either.
-
-
- Jason Price
- pricej@v3.hanscom.af.mil
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