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Received: from sloth.swcp.com (sloth.swcp.com [198.59.115.25]) by nacm.com (8.6.10/8.6.9) with ESMTP id WAA24899 for <executor@nacm.com>; Tue, 16 May 1995 22:01:47 -0700 Received: from iclone.UUCP (uucp@localhost) by sloth.swcp.com (8.6.9/8.6.9) with UUCP id XAA04940; Tue, 16 May 1995 23:04:50 -0600 Received: by mailhost (nextstep Smail3.1.29.0 #11) id m0sBbD5-000YbDC; Tue, 16 May 95 22:59 MDT Message-Id: <m0sBbD5-000YbDC@mailhost> Date: Tue, 16 May 95 22:59 MDT From: ctm@ardi.com (Clifford T. Matthews) To: g.sightler@genie.geis.com Cc: executor@nacm.com Subject: Re: Using MAC low-density disks. In-Reply-To: <199505170327.AA082011227@relay1.geis.com> References: <199505170327.AA082011227@relay1.geis.com> Sender: owner-executor@nacm.com Precedence: bulk >>>>> "Jesse" == g sightler <g.sightler@genie.geis.com> writes: Jesse> Actually, it would be possible to do this without the MAC Jesse> floppy drive, if someone was willing to put the many hours Jesse> necessary into it. <g> Seriously, it is VERY timing Jesse> sensitive (which rules out the possibility of running it Jesse> under any mulitasking OS), but it can be done with the Jesse> right amound of hacking/patience. Jesse> In fact, the early MAC emulators for the Amiga did this Jesse> rather well (of course, they had to shut off multitasking Jesse> to do it :). Well it certainly won't happen between now and when 2.0 comes out. Even then I'm not sure that the PC has the same sort of control over the floppy disk that the Amigas did. After 2.0 comes out we'd probably be willing to pay some $$ to get this functionality, but I'd also guess that just a simple program to read 800k Mac disks on a PC would also generate some revenue, which then begs the question "if it's doable, why hasn't someone done it?" Specifically, why hasn't someone written a program for the PC which reads an 800k formatted floppy (writing is much less important). --Cliff ctm@ardi.com