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>In article <420.6679T1104T165@crl.com>, joewald@crl.com (Joseph Waldvogel)
>wrote:

>> The only computers that can read Amiga formated disks are AMIGA'S!
>> The Amiga can read Amiga, PC,and MAC Disks with the right software.  The
>> Mac can read Mac and PC Disks, so there you go, use PC Formated disks! High
>> Density of course.

>High Density? My good old Amiga has only 880K drives. So which tool can I
>use to  read Mac disks on an Amiga?

I use CrossMAC and have a High Denisty drive it my A1200 so I don't have these
type of problems to worry about, but according to the Docs.

You can use Low Density IBM 720K formated Floppys on your Amiga. CrossDOS
works great for this and is part of AmigaDOS 2.04+ or something like that.
If you have system 7.5+ Installed on Shapeshifter you can use the PC Exchange
program, which is basically like CrossDOS on the Amiga.  So you can transfer
that way,  Or you can use 720K Mac formated Floppys.  SHapeshifter will
support that, but you'll need the 720K Disk Formater System Extention on a
real mac to be able to read/write that size of disk.  I'm not sure, as I
havn't tryed it, but with Shapeshifter running, you should be able to access
that 720K Mac disk on your Amiga also.

You just can't read/write the Standered 800K Mac formate without a real Mac
drive, and you can't plug one of them into Shapeshifter wijthout something
like AMAX's hardware.

Whatever the case your not going to be able to read any Standered Low Density
Mac Disks.  The Easyest thing to really do is just buy one of them High
Density DELL drives.  You can then Read/Write/Format/Access just like a Amiga
Floppy and to access High Density Amiga,MAC, and IBM Disks.  The easyest way
to transfers files from a Real mac to your system is with high Density
floppys.  Software on the Mac usually comes on High Density Disks unless it's
on CD-ROM.  System software is on High Density Disks or CD-ROM.

I mean if you really want to use Shapeshifter, it's the best way to go, and
you have the added benifet of access then High Density IBM disks also.