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From: gab@notecnirp.Princeton.EDU (Gavin Bell)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga
Subject: Reading MacDisks on Amiga
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Date: Thu, 7-May-87 19:27:04 EDT
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I've read several people who stated that, since the Mac drives spin
at variable rates and the Amiga drives at fixed rates, that it was not
possible to read Mac Disks with the Amiga drive.
   Well...  one way to get around this is to read in data faster or
slower, depending on what track you are on.  This is how the Commodore
1541 drives manage to squeeze 170k on a single density 5 1/4" disk, putting
more sectors on the outer tracks of a disk and reading the bits at a faster
rate (the drive spins at a constant 300 rpm).
   So, a program to read Mac disks on an Amiga seems not-impossible-- I
would try to write such a beast, but don't yet even have a C-compiler
for my 'miga.
   Am I missing something?