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Joseph Waldvogel wrote:
> 
> >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.  

Wrong.

>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.

Any Mac with Sys 7.5.x can read 720K Mac-disks,altough they can't format any
their selfs.

> 
> 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.
> 

Well, an even easier way still is to use a pocket (2.5") harddrive (scsi) that
you can move between your Amiga and any Mac. I use one myself with a 40 MB
capacity. Then I can use my favorite programs like FileMaker and Excel 5.0 that
doesn't reside on the hostsystem and use the laserwriter on that network.

> 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.

/Dennis