f87-sir@nada.kth.se (Sigurd Ruschkowski) (04/16/91)
My girlfriend has just got an Amiga 2000 to program a utility for the Defense Department and as I have a Mac it would be nice to be able to read Macintosh diskettes from the Amiga so we for ex can use an Apple printer for text files. Is there a program that can make the Amiga to read Macintosh diskettes? Sigge Ruschkowski Sweden
mattij@tuura.UUCP (Matti Joutkoski) (04/18/91)
f87-sir@nada.kth.se (Sigurd Ruschkowski) writes: >My girlfriend has just got an Amiga 2000 to program a utility >for the Defense Department and as I have a Mac it would be nice >to be able to read Macintosh diskettes from the Amiga so we for >ex can use an Apple printer for text files. >Is there a program that can make the Amiga to read Macintosh >diskettes? No it is not, because of physical construction of the MAC-floppy. It is basicly similar than those old Commodore 1541-format floppys, that we have more sectors in the upper sectors that lower. Amiga floppy-drive can not read the because of physical impossibility. Amiga drives, like MS-DOS drives have equal number of sectors in every tracks. But there is AMAX, where is support for ORIGINAL MAC-drives via external plug, and by this system we can read/write MAC-disks by Amiga. -- --------------------------------------------------------------- Matti Joutkoski, mattij@yj.data.nokia.fi, tel. + 358-0-5673866. ---------------------------------------------------------------
tjehl@wilgus.intel.COM (Timothy Jehl) (04/19/91)
In article <1152@tuura.UUCP>, mattij@tuura.UUCP (Matti Joutkoski) writes: |> f87-sir@nada.kth.se (Sigurd Ruschkowski) writes: |> |> |> >My girlfriend has just got an Amiga 2000 to program a utility |> >for the Defense Department and as I have a Mac it would be nice |> >to be able to read Macintosh diskettes from the Amiga so we for |> >ex can use an Apple printer for text files. |> |> >Is there a program that can make the Amiga to read Macintosh |> >diskettes? |> |> No it is not, because of physical construction of the MAC-floppy. |> It is basicly similar than those old Commodore 1541-format floppys, |> that we have more sectors in the upper sectors that lower. Amiga |> floppy-drive can not read the because of physical impossibility. |> Amiga drives, like MS-DOS drives have equal number of sectors in |> every tracks. |> |> But there is AMAX, where is support for ORIGINAL MAC-drives via |> external plug, and by this system we can read/write MAC-disks |> by Amiga. |> |> -- |> --------------------------------------------------------------- |> Matti Joutkoski, mattij@yj.data.nokia.fi, tel. + 358-0-5673866. |> --------------------------------------------------------------- A small addendum to the above, and this is from memory of literature for AMAX, is that the AMIGA disk drive is capable of reading a small range of the MAC disks (I believe those tracks near the middle of the media). This means that if a disk is formatted as a small MAC disk (about 300k capacity, if I remember correctly), the disk can be read by both types of disk drive. This formatting can be done with AMAX supplied software. After one disk is formatted, I believe MAC disk copy will create identically formatted disks. Quick disclaimer in asbestos suit: I've never tried this, since I bit the bullet and bought a MAC drive when I got AMAX. However, the manual seems to say it can be done. Of course, someone would need to develop the software to convert file formats back and forth, but I suspect that something like this exists in public domain. Final note: If you've got modem software, just ship the files across the RS232. Slow but workable. Tim
chucks@pnet51.orb.mn.org (Erik Funkenbusch) (04/20/91)
f87-sir@nada.kth.se (Sigurd Ruschkowski) writes: > >My girlfriend has just got an Amiga 2000 to program a utility For the defense department? they use amigas? >for the Defense Department and as I have a Mac it would be nice >to be able to read Macintosh diskettes from the Amiga so we for >ex can use an Apple printer for text files. > >Is there a program that can make the Amiga to read Macintosh >diskettes? hmm.. if your mac has a "Super Drive" , that is, is a High Density 1.44 meg drive, then you can use the apple file exchange to convert the file to IBM format, then convert the file to Amiga format on the Amiga with Dos-2-Dos, crossdoss, msh, or any number of the other utilities. OR, if you have a mac external drive (or you can buy one) you can buy Mac-2-Dos and directly convert them. however the Mac drive is a bit of an oddball and uses a variable speed, the Amiga drives are only capable of reading about 1/3 of a mac disk. so you need to buy a mac drive to use with Mac-2-Dos. > >Sigge Ruschkowski >Sweden p.s. Don't use comp.sys.amiga, or comp.sys.amiga.tech, they were supposed to have gone away a long time ago.. continually using them only perpetuates them further. please re-direct to comp.sys.amiga.misc UUCP: {amdahl!tcnet, crash}!orbit!pnet51!chucks ARPA: crash!orbit!pnet51!chucks@nosc.mil INET: chucks@pnet51.orb.mn.org