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Received: from polaris.ncs.nova.edu (polaris.ncs.nova.edu [137.52.232.11]) by nacm.com (8.6.10/8.6.9) with SMTP id WAA09168 for <executor@nacm.com>; Thu, 18 May 1995 22:44:02 -0700 Received: by polaris.ncs.nova.edu (5.0/SMI-SVR4) id AA01030; Fri, 19 May 1995 01:38:23 -0400 Date: Fri, 19 May 1995 01:38:22 -0400 (EDT) From: Fred Salerno <salernof@polaris.ncs.nova.edu> X-Sender: salernof@polaris To: g.sightler@genie.geis.com Cc: executor@nacm.com Subject: Re: Reading MAC 800K disks In-Reply-To: <199505190107.AA001565624@relay1.geis.com> Message-Id: <Pine.SOL.3.91.950519013753.932B-100000@polaris> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII content-length: 954 Sender: owner-paper@nacm.com Precedence: bulk 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 ||||| >