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From: tope@enea.se
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Subject: Re: Amiga emulation for MSDOS
Message-ID: <1991Mar2.142728.6018@ericsson.se>
Date: 2 Mar 91 14:27:28 GMT
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In article <19333@cbmvax.commodore.com> daveh@cbmvax.commodore.com (Dave Haynie) writes:
>In article <1991Feb26.122709.10312@vaxa.strath.ac.uk> cadp16@vaxa.strath.ac.uk writes:
>>In article <5236@vela.acs.oakland.edu>, hastoerm@vela.acs.oakland.edu (Moriland) writes:
>
>>But does anybody know of any programs for the PC that will read amiga disks?
>
>It is impossible for most, if not all, PCs, to read standard-format Amiga 
>disks.  The floppy controllers they use just can't deal with unsectored
>formats.  That's why MS-DOS formatted disks are used for interchange; they're
>the only thing that PCs, Amigas, Mac IIs, Suns, etc. can all read.
>
>
>-- 
>Dave Haynie Commodore-Amiga (Amiga 3000) "The Crew That Never Rests"
>   {uunet|pyramid|rutgers}!cbmvax!daveh      PLINK: hazy     BIX: hazy
>	"What works for me might work for you"	-Jimmy Buffett

How about the possibility for a Mac with superdrive to read/write
AMAX disks? Is it possible?

Tommy Petersson
tope@enea.se <----