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From: dclemans@mntgfx.MENTOR.COM (Dave Clemans)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga
Subject: Re: Reading MAC disks ?
Message-ID: <984@dclemans.mntgfx.MENTOR.COM>
Date: Mon, 19-Oct-87 11:35:31 EDT
Article-I.D.: dclemans.984
Posted: Mon Oct 19 11:35:31 1987
Date-Received: Wed, 21-Oct-87 00:38:00 EDT
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Organization: Mentor Graphics, Beaverton OR
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Keywords: MacIntosh, diskette
Summary: another method to read MAC disks


Data Pacific, the company that did the Mac emulator for the Atari ST, has come out
with a product that lets Mac disks be read on the ST.  With appropriate driver
software that box should work fine on the Amiga.

What their hardware is is a small Z80 based computer system that sits on the
floppy drive "bus" and looks at the raw data lines as they come off the drive.
Then some other processing is done (correcting for speed differences, etc.?)
and then the fully decoded Mac disk data is sent to another port (on the ST I think
they use the parallel port, but I'm not sure).

dgc