Re: Amiga disks on a Mac?

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From: Jonas Thorell
Date: Wed, 17 Apr 1996 22:13

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>In article <koehler-1504961304260001@lem.iam.uni-bonn.de>,
>koehler@rhein.iam.uni-bonn.de (Kai Koehler) wrote:

>> Hi,
>>
>> Does anybody knows a tool which enables Macs to read Amiga-formatted
>> disks? I know one could use PC-formatted disks on both computers, but is
>> there a direkt way?

>None. It seems reading the AmigaDOS filesystem is too much to ask from
>both MacOS and Windoze/MSDOS... You'll have to settle for MSDOS disks that
>can be read by both Amigas/Macs or use Mac disks if you have a High
>Density floppy on your Amiga...

Neither Windoze or DOS fault. It's the crap diskdrive controllers they insist
on putting inside PC's. There's actually a driver for Linux/PC that claims it
can read Amiga FFS disks but it also says that it depends on your
diskdrive/controller.

--
                Amiga Owner Since '87 and proud of it!

     A1200 + Blizzard 1230-III (50 Mhz), 2+8 Megabyte RAM, 1 Gig HD,
                2x CD-ROM, SquirrelSCSI, Accex 28.8k Modem
                        (did I forget something??)

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Date: 17 Apr 1996 22:13:31 GMT
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