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- >Jesse> In fact, the early MAC emulators for the Amiga did this rather
- >Jesse> well (of course, they had to shut off multitasking to do it :).
- >
- >Actually, it was the later mac emulators which did it... it took a
- >while for it to happen.
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- Actually, it was the middle emulators that did it, the later ones (Amax IV
- and Emplant) removed the feature so that they could support multitasking.
- :) (they did include little programs to convert them to disk files, though,
- if I remember correctly)
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- >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.
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