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From: banksie@rata.vuw.ac.nz (Philip Banks)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.acorn
Subject: Re: high density discs.
Keywords: Mac
Message-ID: <1991Jun12.204316.15872@rata.vuw.ac.nz>
Date: 12 Jun 91 20:43:16 GMT
References: <1991Jun11.160020.8493@ira.uka.de> <1991Jun12.131735.15192@fwi.uva.nl>
Organization: Student,Victoria University
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In article <1991Jun12.131735.15192@fwi.uva.nl> aroest@fwi.uva.nl (Axel Roest (N)) writes:
>I would also rather be able to read Mac discs than IBM discs (ofcourse I want
>to read & write both if possible)
>

	  I suspect there are alot of people who do. The IBM ones are catered
	for with programs like !PCDir and !DosFS but those of us who wish to
	read Mac Disks have no such recourse.

>That may be true for HD mac discs, DD discs are definitely NOT standard MFM:
>De drive speed is changed according to the track being read.
>I know of no 'standard' disc drive where you can change the rotation speed.
>
>Let's make that Mac High Density format. There are still more Mac's around with
>normal (DD) disc drives than there are with high density drives.
>

	  Yes well if the High Desnity drive interface ,which I have good 
	rumors on its exsistance, can read MAC HD disks it would be a big start
	. Of course what would be *really* ideal is have not just a disk reader
	but an emulator as well. Even an emulation of say an SE would be very
	useful. I know for myself life would be alot easier if I could take my
	work home and run it there. Of course the emulator would *have* to 
	have things like :-

	 -use any and all spare memory in your arc. Hopefully this would mean
	4 Meg arc owners out there could pull tricks like RAM loading a system
	into the emulator to cut down on the number of disk swaps...
	 -Sound emulation that actually works (if sound emulation is put in
	at all) unlike the sound emulation of the PC emulator which is really
	abysmal.

	But this is very much on my dream list of things for the Arc. Does 
	anyone know what became of the Amiga emulator mentioned a few months 
	back in the BAU? This would be another useful thing to have...

	  Philip Banks


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