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- From: wilesaj@uhura.aston.ac.uk (AJ WILES)
- Subject: Re: MultiFs & Apple Macs
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- Date: Fri, 20 Nov 1992 13:45:40 GMT
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- manar hussain (mhussain@nyx.cs.du.edu) wrote:
- : Jayce was correct regarding low density Mac discs - the only way to read
- : these on an Arc would be to have a Mac disk drive. However the high density
- : Mac format does not have this problem - indeed all ' superdrives' as they
- : are called come with AFX allowing the Mac to read PC disks.
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- It is possible to read low density Mac discs on a standard drive, there is
- a Mac emulator for the Atari ST which does it using the standard ST drive.
- Apparently its a bit fussy about the quality of your drives but it does work.
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- Adrian
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