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*SNIP*

> > >
ftp://ftp.iele.polsl.gliwice.pl/pub/software/emulators/emul8.bydnet.com.
> > > pl/Macintosh/HFSexplorer111.zip
> > 
> > Downloading as soon as I finish typing this.
> 
> Do tell if it *does* let you work with 800K Mac discs - I'm told that it
> does, but I'm not sure I believe it.
> 

Well, I have quickly tried it out but it seems to insist on formatting to
around 1.4Mb even if you select the 800kb option.  A dialogue box appears
effectively saying changing to 1.4Mb (or thereabouts anyway).

It then says this isn't a Mac volume or something like that after it
finishes. So I suppose it just writes garbage to the disk.

This was with an old blank DD 1Mb floppy, but I wasn't really paying much
attention to the program, just clicking the options.  It does appear to
work with HD disks, but that's no good with my SE!

I wonder if this 'error' could be because the PC's BIOS is telling the
program it's a 1.4Mb drive.  So I shall play some more over the weekend by
installing my old DD 3.5" disk drive (off my ZX Spectrum would you
believe!) to the PC and seeing if that works.  And I'll look at the
instructions/help file as well!

I shall raid work's Power PC (which has the Stuffit program installed on
it) next week to create some disks for the SE - I've got all the necessary
now from the Apple website.

Thanks to everyone for the help so far.

- Matt.