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From: ali@rocky.STANFORD.EDU (Ali Ozer)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga
Subject: Re: Viewing Mac images on the Amiga
Message-ID: <978@rocky.STANFORD.EDU>
Date: 21 Jan 88 19:12:49 GMT
References: <1885@cadnetix.UUCP>
Reply-To: ali@rocky.UUCP (Ali Ozer)
Organization: Stanford University Computer Science Department
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In article <1885@cadnetix.UUCP> childs@cadnetix.UUCP (David Childs) writes:
>I am looking for some means to view Mac images on an Amiga.  It seems
>that the best way to do this is to modem(Null or whatever) the image
>over to the Amiga, or IBM (360k floppy) and then convert it to an iff
>image.

Check out MacView from Fish disk 35 (also 32, but version in 35 comes with
sample pictures). It takes MacPaint pictures, displays them on the Amiga
(in either 320x200 or 640x400, with scroll gadgets in both cases). You also
have the option of saving the images as IFF files.

And yes, you can transfer files from the Mac to the Amiga, using kermits
at both ends and a null modem cable. Of course, you have to make sure
you have the appropriate modes set so that the kermits do not screw up
your binary files. (Tom Rokicki and I once transferred many bytes of source
from the Mac to the Amiga, and it worked wonderfully. Of course, all the
files we transferred were text files...)

Ali Ozer, ali@rocky.stanford.edu