Re: A-Max Stuff

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From: logan shaw
Date: Tue, 16 Oct 1990 18:15

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In article <DD03q7w163w@valnet> joseph@valnet.UUCP (Joseph P. Hillenburg) writes:
>Then how the hell did Simon Douglas make the A-max II+ read Mac disks off 
>a standard Amiga drive?

This is how I understand all of this...

Amax II+ is a card that plugs into your Amiga >=2000.  The drives actually get
hooked up through the A-Max board in addition to the Amiga floppy controller when
you install it, so AMAX II+ is able to control your drive hardware directly and
thus can pulse your drive motor so as to achieve variable speeds.  (Apparently
this is how it worked in the _original_ Macintoshes).  In other words, it's not
the Amiga drives that are actually the factor that prevents you from reading
Mac disks, it's the Amiga floppy controller.

If I'm wrong on some of this, it's because I interpolated most of it from the
AMAX II ad in the front of an AmigaWorld.

>-Joseph Hillenburg
>
>UUCP: ...iuvax!valnet!joseph
>ARPA: valnet!joseph@iuvax.cs.indiana.edu
>INET: joseph@valnet.UUCP

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