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Received: from relay1.geis.com (relay1.geis.com [192.77.188.2]) by nacm.com (8.6.10/8.6.9) with ESMTP id SAA04900 for <executor@nacm.com>; Thu, 18 May 1995 18:07:11 -0700 From: g.sightler@genie.geis.com Received: by relay1.geis.com (1.37.109.11/15.6) id AA001565624; Fri, 19 May 1995 01:07:04 GMT Message-Id: <199505190107.AA001565624@relay1.geis.com> Date: Fri, 19 May 95 00:25:00 UTC To: executor@nacm.com Subject: Reading MAC 800K disks X-Genie-Id: 4941536 X-Genie-From: G.SIGHTLER Sender: owner-paper@nacm.com Precedence: bulk >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 |||||