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From: lphillips@lpami.wimsey.bc.ca (Larry Phillips)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga
Subject: Re: A-Max Drives
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Date: 30 Apr 89 16:00:51 GMT
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In <366@nadia.UUCP>, agnus@nadia.UUCP (Matthias Zepf) writes:
>In article <4341@alvin.mcnc.org> raw@mcnc.org (Russell Williams) writes:
>>	Can anybody tell me what the problem is with not having a mac drive to
>>hook up with A-Max?  From what I have read, although the amiga drive can only
>>read 1/3 of the Mac disk, you can transfer a mac disk to an amiga disk by
>>copying it in three passes.  Then you have the whole mac disk on an amiga disk.
>>So why would this be a problem in compatibility?  (Copy protection of Mac disks
>>aside.)

>I think this was a joke of you, wasn't it? You must the mac is writing
>(and reading) a disk at three diffent rotating speeds (depending on
>the track number). The amiga drive can only simulate one of this three
>speeds. So you can only read 1/3 of the mac disk, but it will every
>time the same 1/3 of the mac disk!! 2/3 are absolut unreadable!
>By the way, I'm waiting for this A-Max to buy here in Germany...

Why would you think this is a joke? You use a Mac to copy a Mac disk's contents
to three Mac disks. The contents go on the first third of each output disk. The
Amiga is capable of reading the first third of a mac disk. Read in each of the
three disks to the Amiga, putting the contents onto one Amiga disk.

This is indeed what you would do to get software from the Mac to the Amiga to
run Amax.

-larry

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