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From: scotty@l5comp.UUCP (Scott Turner)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga
Subject: Re: Reading Mac disks on the Amiga
Message-ID: <131@l5comp.UUCP>
Date: Sun, 17-May-87 05:17:59 EDT
Article-I.D.: l5comp.131
Posted: Sun May 17 05:17:59 1987
Date-Received: Tue, 19-May-87 06:27:41 EDT
References: <8705150540.AA04612@cogsci.berkeley.edu>
Reply-To: scotty@l5comp.UUCP (Scott Turner)
Organization: L5 Computing, Edmonds, WA
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Summary: Disk-2-Disk uses motor pulsing.

In article <8705150540.AA04612@cogsci.berkeley.edu> bryce@COGSCI.BERKELEY.EDU (Bryce Nesbitt) writes:
>A product called "disk-2-disk" claims to read and ->write<- Commodore
>4040/1541/1571 disks on the Amiga using the A1020 5 1/4 drive.	The
>Commodore 5 1/4 inch disks are are similar to Mac disks in many ways:
>There apparent success may be a result of:
>
>1> Tricky programming.
>2> Magic twoggling of Paula. (tsk, tsk.)
>3> Magic inherent in the A1020 disk drive.
They use the motor pulsing trick I spoke of. :-) And they are VERY persistant,
creative, helpful people.

And while I'm talking about Central Coast, if you buy their Dos-2-Dos product
make sure you get version 1.5 or greater. Previous versions were rather naive
in their handling moving the head around. This has been corrected in 1.5, and
I now use this product to move messyDOS stuff Amiga <--> Zenith 181. Works
great and my Z-181 has 5.25" capabilities. (If you want messyDOS why not get
something out of it you can't get from your Amiga like being a laptop?)

Scott Turner
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