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From: valentin@cbmvax.commodore.com (Valentin Pepelea)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga
Subject: Re: Thinking of buying an Amiga.
Message-ID: <11247@cbmvax.commodore.com>
Date: 2 May 90 06:17:14 GMT
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In article <8478@sbcs.sunysb.edu> mrose@libserv1.ic.sunysb.edu (Michael Rose) writes:
>
> Now if I do get the Amiga, I am going to give my brother my Mega

Don't do that, give it to your worst enemy instead.  :-)

> and I would like to be able to exchange
> wordprocessor files between the two machines without a modem.  Is there
> anyway for the Amiga to read a MS-DOS disk (compatible with ST)?

Yes, there is a DOS-2-DOS package that will allow you to read and write
MS-DOS disks.

> Will  it require a bridge board?  Does the Amiga need a new 3 1/2 or can you
> use the regular Amiga drive to read a 720k disk?

You don't need any additional hardware to read and write 3.5 inch disk. You
may add a 5-1/4 inch drive to read and write those antiquated PC disks if
you really insist.

> A friend of mine
> told me that the Amiga use variable speed drives like on the Mac (yuck!),

He is wrong.

>I had heard from somewhere (don't remember where) that there was an
>Atari ST and STe emulator on a card for the Amiga.  Is this true?  Who
>makes it?  How compatible is it?

Readysoft makes a Mac emulator, just like Spectre for the ST. Everybosy
says it's better though.  :-)  There is no ST emulator to my knowledge.
The number of Amigans that would like to run ST software is rather, um,
restrained.

Valentin
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