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Re: Reading MAC 800K disks



Ive got the amiga emulator, but it needs a workbench disk. Which i dont have.

>  >Cliff> Even then I'm not sure that the PC has the same sort of
>  >Cliff> control over the floppy disk that the Amigas did.
>  >
>  >I'm not sure either... as far as I know, it is impossible for the vast
>  >majority of PC drives to read Amiga disks.  (And as an owner of both,
>  >I have a vested interest in that!  If I'm wrong, PLEASE correct me!)
>  >If I understand correctly, it's hinges on some capability that most
>  >manufacturers didn't include to reduce prices.
>  
> Actually, I don't know for sure, but I am almost sure that the PC could read
> Amiga disks with the proper program.  I don't know this for sure, though.  I
> know that they won't read normally, but I would think that they could if you
> had a program for the PC to make them do it.  In fact, I think that the
> Amiga emulator for the PC did just that.
>  
> ||||| Jesse D. Sightler |||||
> 


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