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From: cp46@sdcc15.UUCP (Hartford)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga
Subject: Re: Reading MAC disks ?
Message-ID: <363@sdcc15.UUCP>
Date: Wed, 21-Oct-87 03:06:43 EDT
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Posted: Wed Oct 21 03:06:43 1987
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References: <4028@well.UUCP> <2488@cbmvax.UUCP> <984@dclemans.mntgfx.MENTOR.COM>
Reply-To: cp46@sdcc15.UUCP (Hartford,Stephen)
Organization: University of California, San Diego
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Keywords: MacIntosh, diskette

In article <984@dclemans.mntgfx.MENTOR.COM> 
	dclemans@mntgfx.MENTOR.COM (Dave Clemans) writes:
>
>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.
>

I spoke with the folks from Data Pacific at a recent Atari show in
Glendale, CA, and they assured me that they had a version of their Mac
emulator working (sort of) on the Amiga, with the Amiga drive
reading and writing Mac formatted diskettes! No box necessary!

The monochrome display, however, won't be as nice as it is on the ST,
where many people use the super-high resolution monochrome monitor already.
The Amiga version will have two options: 1) interlace, and 2) leave out
every other scan line. I'm not quite sure how this second method would
work, but that's all I could get out of them. Apparently, they don't
want to talk about it until its ready to be released. (I can't
understand why not :-)

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