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Received: from Norway.EU.net (nic.eunet.no [193.71.1.2]) by nacm.com (8.6.10/8.6.9) with SMTP id DAA20050 for <executor@nacm.com>; Thu, 18 May 1995 03:07:19 -0700 Received: by Norway.EU.net with UUCP id AA24269 (5.65c/IDA-1.4.4/EUnet/NO for nacm.com!executor); Thu, 18 May 1995 12:05:09 +0200 Date: Thu, 18 May 1995 11:17:32 +0200 (MET DST) From: Arnt Gulbrandsen <agulbra@troll.no> To: "Clifford T. Matthews" <ctm@ardi.com> Cc: g.sightler@genie.geis.com, executor@nacm.com Subject: Re: Using MAC low-density disks. In-Reply-To: <m0sBbD5-000YbDC@mailhost> Message-Id: <Pine.LNX.3.91.950518105152.146A-100000@pentagram.troll.no> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-executor@nacm.com Precedence: bulk > 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. > > 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). The Amiga CPU can access the data on the floppy track as-is, and so if it wants to parse the track and pick out the sector data itself, it can. The PC uses the old 765 floppy controller, which has _no_ capability to give the PC all of the track, it _does_ track parsing to separate sectors