raymond@math.berkeley.edu (Raymond Chen) (05/18/91)
[This document is archived at the comp.sys.ibm.pc.misc archives at math.princeton.edu:pub/rjc/csip.] # A database of disk conversion questions S: Converting disks MS-DOS <-> Amiga Q: hz241pi@unidui.uni-duisburg.de (Andreas Pietras) 15 Feb 91 Q: wsineel@win.tue.nl (Eelco Vriezekolk) 18 Feb 91 R: jap@convex.cl.msu.edu (Joe Porkka) 18 Feb 91 >I doubt that it is physically possible to read Amiga disks on an IBM. >The Amiga floppy controller in custom. >As for the reverse direction, you can run on the Amiga either >CrossDos (Commercial) or MessyDisk (or Messydos?) (PD/shareware) Q: bcarb@KSP.Unisys.COM (Brian Carb) [access Amiga disks from PC] 8 Mar 91 Q: technews@iitmax.iit.edu (Kevin Kadow) 27 Apr 91 S: Converting disks MS-DOS <-> Apple // series Q: tony4@stretch.cs.mun.ca (Anthony H. Galway) 17 Mar 90 Q: v097pba8@ubvmsa.cc.buffalo.edu (Ken F Morton) 2 May 90 R: fordke@ingr.com (Keith Ford) 7 May 90 >A board called the Trackstar. I'll be glad to send you info. Q: rep@odin.icd.ab.com (Robert E. Pappenhagen) 29 Jun 90 R: fordke@ingr.com (Keith Ford) 2 Jul 90 >The Trackstar board would do it for you. If you would like more info, >I can send it to you. R: drp@vpnet.chi.il.us (Douglas Pokorny) 20 Jul 90 >The Central Point Software options board lets you read Apple disks. R: pitonyak@navajo.cis.ohio-state.edu (Andrew Pitonyak) 28 Jul 90 >Beware that the Central Point board supports only 800K disks. R: akm@spencer.cs.uoregon.edu (Anant Kartik Mithal) 25 Jul 90 >Micro Solutions, DeKlab Illinios makes a card that sits between the >original floppy drive card and the floppy drive, and allows the floppy >to read and write Apple II disks. > [ Also, don't forget that Macs with FDHD drives can use Apple File > Exchange to convert the data. ] Q: JKT100@psuvm.psu.edu (Kurt Tappe) 25 Oct 90 Q: johnk@cygnus.la.locus.com (JOHN KIM) 5 Dec 90 R: berger@atropa.stat.uiuc.edu (Mike Berger) 10 Jan 91 >Central Point Systems Copy II PC Options Board Q: miyaoka@afcsa.af.mil (Les Miyaoka) 8 Feb 91 Q: jwm712@unhd.unh.edu (Jonathan W Miner) [followup promised] 21 Feb 91 R: ebergman@isis.cs.du.edu (Eric Bergman-Terrell) 25 Feb 91 >There is an apple mac drive that reads MS-DOS 3.5" disks. R: fordke@ingr.com (Keith Ford) 25 Feb 91 >I have two new Trackstar boards that plug into your pc and give you complete >Apple //e coprocessing abilities. More info available upon request. R: SRPDBRS@trev.dsir.govt.nz (Bruce Sinclair) 8 Mar 91 >The PC transporter ($400) plugs into your apple II to downgrade it to >an IBM style machine. You do (I think) need extra floppy drives however. R: kgallagh@digi.lonestar.org (Kevin Gallagher) 16 Mar 91 >Cross-Works claims `You can exchange AppleWorks data files with the most >popular MS-DOS programs: Microsoft Works, Lotus 1-2-3, WordPerfect, >dBase III & IV.' For $100, you get a 19.2K cable which can connect to a >//e, //c, //cPlus, or a //gs on one end and a IBM PC, XT, AT, PS/2 & >compatibles. SoftSpoken, P.O. Box 18343, Raleigh, NC 27619. (919)870-5694 S: Converting disks MS-DOS <-> C64/C128 Q: zavdi@ctt.bellcore.com (Zavdi Lichtman) 14 Mar 90 R: srt@maui.cs.ucla.edu (Scott Turner) 8 May 90 >C64 uses a different encoding scheme that cannot be read by a PC. >Alternatives: (1) use a modem connection and (2) use a C128, a 1571 >drive, and a program called Big Blue Reader. R: hau@mentor.cc.purdue.edu (Robert Piskac) 9 May 90 >I have a C64 with a 1581, 1571 disk drive. I have no problems >converting from IBM to CBM or CBM to IBM format. R: mfrohman@digi.lonestar.org (Matthew Frohman) 10 May 90 >The Commodore 1571 disk drive (double sided drive) has the ability to >recognize over 150 different disk formats. I found a program that >will read an write to a disk that has been formatted on an IBM. R: mroussel@alchemy.chem.utoronto.ca (Marc Roussel) 30 Aug 90 >[Big Blue Reader] requires either a 1571 or 1581 disk drive. >(It WILL NOT work with the 1541.) R: cybrspc!roy@cs.umn.edu (Roy M. Silvernail) 31 Aug 90 >[Big Blue Reader has] 2 versions, one for the 64 and one for the 128. Q: zoroaster@oak.circa.ufl.edu 22 Jan 91 Q: w165045@rosie.ucdavis.edu 19 Feb 91 R: krey@i30fs1.ira.uka.de (Andreas Krey) 19 Feb 91 >IBM disk drives can only read FM/MFM. Commodore's formats require special >designs. You can read IBM from C128, though. R: mark@urz.unibas.ch (G. Mark) 21 Feb 91 >There exist a package for PC consisting of a special cable and >program. With this package you can connect your PC to a VC-1541 (C64) >disc drive. One end of the cable goes to the PC parallel port other end goes >to the VC-1541 (C64) disc serial port. The program reads/writes C64 discs. Q: roy%cybrspc@cs.umn.edu (Roy M. Silvernail) 27 Apr 91 >3.5" disks (not 5.25") S: Converting disks MS-DOS <-> Coleco Adam Q: asw@mbunix.mitre.org (Wong) 19 Jun 90 S: Converting disks MS-DOS <-> CP/M R: broy@umaxc.weeg.uiowa.edu (Barbara Roy) 4 May 90 >UNIFORM converts in either direction. Micro Solutions, >125 South 4th St, Dekalb, Illinois 60115. (815)756-3411. Q: gcw20877@uxa.cso.uiuc.edu (George Wang) [Epson CP/M80] 29 Jan 91 S: Converting disks MS-DOS <-> DEC Rainbow RX50 Q: MAUKONEN@ucf1vm.cc.ucf.edu (Chris Maukonen) 21 Jun 90 S: Converting disks MS-DOS <-> HP (9153) Q: paz@mlb.dmt.csiro.au (Paul Zemancheff) 21 Oct 90 R: dlow@hpspcoi.HP.COM (Danny Low) 22 Oct 90 > FILE/SWAP-PC from: A Gentle Wind, 186 Partridge St, Albany, NY 12203; 518-482-9023 > Oswego Software, 507 North Adams, Oswego, Illinois 60543, 312-554-3567 S: Converting disks MS-DOS <-> IBM System 36 Q: joe@acmis.cmis.co.at (Johannes Rupp) 24 Apr 91 S: Converting disks MS-DOS <-> Macintosh R: akm@spencer.cs.uoregon.edu (Anant Kartik Mithal) 25 Jul 90 >Micro Solutions, DeKlab Illinios makes a card that lets you connect >a standard Mac drive, and you can then read and write mac disks on a pc. Q: bpm@psuecl.bitnet 6 Sep 90 R: dsew@uhura.cc.rochester.edu (David Sewell) 6 Sep 90 >Deluxe Option Board, from Central Point Software allows you to read and >write Mac formatted disks, and has software for file translation. >1-800-888-8199. R: royce@scor_az.resp-sci.arizona.edu (Royce Robbins) 6 Sep 90 >Micro Solutions, Inc. 132 West Lincoln Hwy., DeKalb, IL 60115 (815) 756-3411 >makes a board/software/drive combination that would be an external drive to >your existing system. R: umcarls9@ccu.umanitoba.ca (Charles Carlson) 7 Sep 90 >[Deluxe Option Board] will read/write Mac 800k disks, but not 1.44. >If you have a Mac with the 1.44 Superdrives, you can get an init called >DOS Mounter which supposedly allows you to insert a PC DOS disk and use >it just as if it were a Mac disk. >[See also the Apple File Exchange program that comes with your Mac.] >Failing that, there is a program by Data Viz called MacLink Plus. R: justinlh@idsvax.ids.com (Justin Langseth) 9 Sep 90 >You need the Copy II PC Option Board. R: dan@rna.UUCP (Dan Ts'o) 9 Jan 91 >Central Point Software's COPY II PC Deluxe Option Board can read and >write 800K (and 400K I think) MAC disks using the PC's 3.5" drive. R: garrison@zodiac.rutgers.edu [summary] 10 Jan 91 >Apple File Exchange (AFE) comes free with all new Macs; you need a SuperDrive. >DOS Mounter (Dayna Design) mounts PC disks directly to the desktop. > IBM disks look just like Macs with directories turned into folders etc. > a working demo version of the program is on vega.hut.fi (FREE!!). >PC Access: sounds similar to DOS Mounter (but costs money). >MacLink Plus: translates application formats for AFE. >DataViz ($135) translates loads of stuff. > >COPY-II-CARD (Central Point) driver/controller package ($120). Expensive > but nice. Does more than just read Mac disks. R: pwilliam@axion.bt.co.uk (Philip Williams) 14 Jan 91 >I use dyna file; it plugs into the SCSI drive and makes >IBM disks appear on the Mac desktop. works just fine... Q: sland@motcid.UUCP (Stephen Shortland) 28 Jan 91 Q: pgt@hpfcso.FC.HP.COM (Paul G. Tobin) 21 Feb 91 Q: 6500boo@ucsbuxa.ucsb.edu (William Bushing) 20 Mar 91 Q: noring@vaxr.llnl.gov (Jon Noring) 21 Mar 91 Q: mjl@unix.cis.pitt.edu (Michael J Lewinter) [read Mac from PC] 22 Mar 91 R: dewhirst@kuhub.cc.ukans.edu (Peter) 23 Mar 91 >A Mac with "SuperDrive" can read/write MS-DOS (720K) disks with Apple File >Exchange. Or you could just hook up the serial ports. R: berger@atropa.stat.uiuc.edu (Mike Berger) 23 Mar 91 >The easiest way with standard equipment is to buy a Central Point Systems >Copy-II-PC Options Board for around $ 100. Q: kline@unix.cis.pitt.edu (William E Kline) 4 Apr 91 R: Aaron.Roydhouse@comp.vuw.ac.nz (Aaron Roydhouse) 5 Apr 91 >CopyIIPC Deluxe Option Board, Central Point Software Inc., 9700 S.W. >Capitol Highway, Portland, Oregon 97219. (503)244-5782. >NOTE: It does not read high density Mac II disks, nor does it work on all >brands of 3.5" drive. Notably it does not work with the Mitsubishi >mechanism. R: gmurray@ibmpcug.co.uk (G Murray) 6 Apr 91 >If the MAC disks are the newer high density type then the PC should be >able to read them directly. Or you can get a board/software by >MicroSolutions called either MatchMaker or MatchPoint. One of these allows >a PC to access an Apple II disk, the other allows reading/writing of MAC >disks, but I can't remeber which is which. R: nyet@nntp-server.caltech.edu (n liu) 7 Apr 91 >If your Mac has a superdrive, there's an init called initPC (i think) that >allows the Mac to do the writing in PC format for either HD or 720. R: c60b-1eq@web-1e.berkeley.edu (Noam Mendelson) 7 Apr 91 >If your Mac has superdrive, you can use the Apple File Exchange. Q: magid@sandstorm.Berkeley.EDU (Paul Magid) 8 Apr 91 Q: glennm@rover.enet.dec.com (Glenn Meyer) 21 Apr 91 Q: khioe@mona.Jpl.Nasa.Gov (Kent Hioe) 9 Apr 91 S: Converting disks MS-DOS <-> Sinclair Spectrum Q: p515dfi@mpifr-bonn.mpg.de (Daniel Fischer) 9 May 90 S: Converting disks MS-DOS <-> TRS-80 Model I Q: rwolkoys@megatek.UUCP (Ron Wolkoys) 14 Jan 91 S: Converting disks MS-DOS <-> whatever Q: uunet!frith!upba!tssi!nolan (Michael Nolan) 9 May 90 >Try XenoCopy-PC from XENOSOFT, 2210 Sixth Street, Berkeley CA >94710-2210, (415) 644-9366