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- To: "Clifford T. Matthews" <ctm@ardi.com>
- Cc: g.sightler@genie.geis.com, executor@nacm.com
- Subject: Re: Using MAC low-density disks.
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- > 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).
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- 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.
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- 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
-