Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!bonnie.concordia.ca!uunet!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!uakari.primate.wisc.edu!zazen!uwvax!astroatc!nicmad!madnix!ruth!rat From: rat@ruth.UUCP (David Douthitt) Newsgroups: comp.os.cpm Subject: Re: CP/M disk formats (was Re: CPM to DOS exchanger) Message-ID: Date: 30 May 91 11:46:22 GMT References: <1991May22.042049.8842@trl.oz.au> Organization: The Breakfast Club BBS - a future UseNet-FidoNet Gateway Lines: 29 a.guillaume@trl.oz.au (Andrew Guillaume) writes: > On a related subject, I thought I might ask a similar question. I have an > Apple //c, with an Applied Engineering card which gives me CP/M capability. [snip] > Anyway, I was interested in finding out whether there existed a program that > would enable me to read any cp/m disk format from any other machine. Eg, I > would love to be able to read stuff written on a disk formatted on a Kaypro, > or an Osborne, and have the inverse possible, like giving a Kaypro owner one > of my diskettes formatted on the Apple. Unfortunately, the Apple II diskette goes beyond mere data incompatibility and is physically incompatible with the IBM diskette. To read an Apple diskette in an IBM PC (or vice versa) an adapter is required. For the IBM PC, several Apple II emulator boards exist, including the Trackstar board, which will support Apple II diskettes. Imagine watching your IBM boot off of an Apple II DOS 3.3 Master! (I seen it, I did!) For the Apple II, Applied Engineering makes a IBM PC emulator board which will support the IBM PC disk format in an external drive. I've not tried this product, but I hear good things. In addition, there is a product called MatchPoint-PC, which will read PC diskettes in your Apple drive. But it's not an emulator. Sorry couldn't be of more help..