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- >>>>> "Jesse" == g sightler <g.sightler@genie.geis.com> writes:
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- Jesse> Actually, it would be possible to do this without the MAC
- Jesse> floppy drive, if someone was willing to put the many hours
- Jesse> necessary into it. <g> Seriously, it is VERY timing
- Jesse> sensitive (which rules out the possibility of running it
- Jesse> under any mulitasking OS), but it can be done with the
- Jesse> right amound of hacking/patience.
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- Jesse> In fact, the early MAC emulators for the Amiga did this
- Jesse> rather well (of course, they had to shut off multitasking
- Jesse> to do it :).
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- Well it certainly won't happen between now and when 2.0 comes out.
- Even then I'm not sure that the PC has the same sort of control over
- the floppy disk that the Amigas did. After 2.0 comes out we'd
- probably be willing to pay some $$ to get this functionality, but I'd
- also guess that just a simple program to read 800k Mac disks on a PC
- would also generate some revenue, which then begs the question "if
- it's doable, why hasn't someone done it?" Specifically, why hasn't
- someone written a program for the PC which reads an 800k formatted
- floppy (writing is much less important).
-
- --Cliff
- ctm@ardi.com
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