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From: etxtomp@eos.ericsson.se (Tommy Petersson)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.emulations
Subject: Mac to Dos Was: Re: Amiga to Mac,IBM,Atari
Message-ID: <1991Feb4.123404.14764@ericsson.se>
Date: 4 Feb 91 12:34:04 GMT
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I'm looking for info on transfering Mac programs to an Amiga with A-Max.

Since it seem to take a while before A-Max II+ is out, I'm thinking of
buying a used copy of A-Max offered at a reasonable price. I don't
like the idea of tanking over all programs on a serial cable, and I'm
don't want to buy a Mac drive (then I rather wait for A-Max II+).

Is it possible to write MS-DOS 720K floppies on an ordinary Mac IIci?
If so, will this destroy the resource fork of Mac programs, and only
be useful for text files (as the A-Max full disk transfer program seems
to do)?

It seems like it at least would be possible to write a program similar
in function to lhwarp. This should on the Mac side make a compressed 800K
disk in a file, with all resource information intact. After a transfer
with a Mac2Dos program (or directly to A-Max format), a sister program
could dewarp the file to an A-Max formatted diskette.

Is this possible?

Otherwise, the solution is cable or the 1/3 disk method. How well does
it work, is it a real pain to move 30 disks this way?


Tommy Petersson
etxtomp@eos.ericsson.se