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From: crs@cpsc6a.att.com (Chris (The Home of the Killer Smiley) Seaman)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga,comp.sys.amiga.tech
Subject: Re: Can I read/write Mac disks on my Amiga drive?
Keywords: amiga macintosh disk drive
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Date: 5 Feb 90 18:55:36 GMT
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terry@helios.ucsc.edu (Terry Ricketts) writes:
< rhp@INEL.GOV (Robert Powell) writes:
< < [ Questions about reading/writing Mac disks on an Amiga... ]
< 
< 	Unfortunately the Mac drive has a variable speed. Thus you cannot
< write more than a few tracks on any other computer before running into one
< that needs a speed change. It is for this reason that Amax needs a real
< Mac drive to read or write Mac format disks. Another choice is Mac-Dos from
< Central Coast Software which also uses a real Mac drive to do the transfer.

I have long been aware of the variable speed problem regarding Mac/Amiga
transfers, but I have recently read something that has me thoroughly
confused.  While 'checking out the competition', I read a review of a
package for the Atari ST that claims to read Mac disks in the Atari
internal drive, and execute Mac software via emulation.  I don't recall
the name of the package, but apparently it consists of nothing more than a
cartridge (there is no Mac drive required).  So, how have they done this?
I also remember a utility for the IBM world that claimed to copy Mac disks
in a PC drive, though I never tested it myself.

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