Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!cs.utexas.edu!ut-emx!ccwf.cc.utexas.edu!lshaw From: lshaw@ccwf.cc.utexas.edu (logan shaw) Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.tech Subject: Re: A-Max Stuff Message-ID: <38323@ut-emx.uucp> Date: 16 Oct 90 18:15:16 GMT References: <14678@brahms.udel.edu> Sender: news@ut-emx.uucp Reply-To: lshaw@ccwf.cc.utexas.edu (logan shaw) Organization: The University of Texas at Austin Lines: 27 In article joseph@valnet.UUCP (Joseph P. Hillenburg) writes: >Then how the hell did Simon Douglas make the A-max II+ read Mac disks off >a standard Amiga drive? This is how I understand all of this... Amax II+ is a card that plugs into your Amiga >=2000. The drives actually get hooked up through the A-Max board in addition to the Amiga floppy controller when you install it, so AMAX II+ is able to control your drive hardware directly and thus can pulse your drive motor so as to achieve variable speeds. (Apparently this is how it worked in the _original_ Macintoshes). In other words, it's not the Amiga drives that are actually the factor that prevents you from reading Mac disks, it's the Amiga floppy controller. If I'm wrong on some of this, it's because I interpolated most of it from the AMAX II ad in the front of an AmigaWorld. >-Joseph Hillenburg > >UUCP: ...iuvax!valnet!joseph >ARPA: valnet!joseph@iuvax.cs.indiana.edu >INET: joseph@valnet.UUCP ====================================================================== "Up rode the knight to the tower | Logan Shaw The mean old queen was takin' a shower. | lshaw@ccwf.cc.utexas.edu She was mean, but she was clean - | Home: (512) 476-2749