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From: mattij@tuura.UUCP (Matti Joutkoski)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.tech
Subject: Re: Can the Amiga read Macintosh diskettes?
Message-ID: <1152@tuura.UUCP>
Date: 18 Apr 91 06:38:09 GMT
References: <1991Apr15.180915.3975@kth.se>
Organization: Nokia Data Systems Oy
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f87-sir@nada.kth.se (Sigurd Ruschkowski) writes:


>My girlfriend has just got an Amiga 2000 to program a utility
>for the Defense Department and as I have a Mac it would be nice
>to be able to read Macintosh diskettes from the Amiga so we for
>ex can use an Apple printer for text files.

>Is there a program that can make the Amiga to read Macintosh
>diskettes?

No it is not, because of physical construction of the MAC-floppy.
It is basicly similar than those old Commodore 1541-format floppys,
that we have more sectors in the upper sectors that lower. Amiga
floppy-drive can not read the because of physical impossibility.
Amiga drives, like MS-DOS drives have equal number of sectors in
every tracks.

But there is AMAX, where is support for ORIGINAL MAC-drives via
external plug, and by this system we can read/write MAC-disks
by Amiga.

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