Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!cs.utexas.edu!wuarchive!uunet!comp.vuw.ac.nz!actrix!tornado!sideways!patrick From: patrick@sideways.gen.nz (Pat Cain) Newsgroups: comp.sys.acorn Subject: Re: high density discs. Keywords: discs Message-ID: Date: 11 Jun 91 09:32:55 GMT References: <1991Jun4.062238.18778@rata.vuw.ac.nz> Organization: Sideways Bulletin Board, Lower Hutt, New Zealand. Lines: 22 banksie@rata.vuw.ac.nz (Philip Banks) writes: > Yes! Yes! Very much so. What would also be nice is a Macintosh disc > reader drive. A lot of tertiary institutions use Macs out this way and > it would be nice to transfer work to and from home easily. The ability to read high density PC discs would be useful to a lot more people than the ability to read Mac discs. Does anyone know if the high density drives in the Macs are custom Apple ones (like their 800k drive) or whether they are industry standard models? As long as they are standard drives then a high density drive for the Archimedes should be able to handle both PC and Mac formats with the appropriate software. BTW has anyone played the game Wing Commander on the PC? Seems to be really popular everywhere. Apparently it was written by Chris Roberts -- he wrote Strykers Run and Match Day for the BBC.. Is there any news of an Arch version? -- Pat Cain, PO Box 2060, Wellington, New Zealand. (patrick@sideways.welly.gen.nz)