Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!clyde.concordia.ca!uunet!tut.cis.ohio-state.edu!pacific.mps.ohio-state.edu!ohstpy!miavx1!jwwalden
From: jwwalden@miavx1.acs.muohio.edu (Darc Tangent)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac
Subject: Re: Can Mac read Amiga floppies?
Message-ID: <1196.26125dfe@miavx1.acs.muohio.edu>
Date: 30 Mar 90 00:11:58 GMT
References: <23158@unix.cis.pitt.edu>
Distribution: all
Lines: 22

In article <23158@unix.cis.pitt.edu>, bdest@unix.cis.pitt.edu (Benoit Desjardins) writes:
> does anybody know if there is a way to read Amiga floppy format on a Mac
> FDHD drive?  Is there a PD soft that can do that?  It it physically
> possible?  Please mail your reply to: benoit@speedy.cs.pitt.edu
-- 

    I have not heard of any software that allows the FDHD to read Amiga
floppies, but it should be physically possible.  The Amiga uses IBM type drives
and can read and write IBM format 720K 3.5" disks (Amiga floppies are 880K
so are slightly different, but the basic drive is the same).

[][][][][][][][][][][][][][][][][][][][][][][][][][][][][][][][][][][][][][][][]
[]                                                                            []
[] Darc Tangent    d(arctan(u)) = du/(1+u^2)   jwwalden@miavx1.acs.muohio.edu []
[]                                                                            []
[] "I am made from the dust of the stars, the oceans flow in my veins."       []
[]                                    - RUSH, Presto                          []
[]                                                                            []
[] "Reading legal mush can turn your brain to guacamole!" - Amiga RKM         []
[] "Objective truth is a social disease." - Nietzsche                         []
[]                                                                            []
[][][][][][][][][][][][][][][][][][][][][][][][][][][][][][][][][][][][][][][][]