etxtomp@eos.ericsson.se (Tommy Petersson) (02/04/91)
I'm looking for info on transfering Mac programs to an Amiga with A-Max. Since it seem to take a while before A-Max II+ is out, I'm thinking of buying a used copy of A-Max offered at a reasonable price. I don't like the idea of tanking over all programs on a serial cable, and I'm don't want to buy a Mac drive (then I rather wait for A-Max II+). Is it possible to write MS-DOS 720K floppies on an ordinary Mac IIci? If so, will this destroy the resource fork of Mac programs, and only be useful for text files (as the A-Max full disk transfer program seems to do)? It seems like it at least would be possible to write a program similar in function to lhwarp. This should on the Mac side make a compressed 800K disk in a file, with all resource information intact. After a transfer with a Mac2Dos program (or directly to A-Max format), a sister program could dewarp the file to an A-Max formatted diskette. Is this possible? Otherwise, the solution is cable or the 1/3 disk method. How well does it work, is it a real pain to move 30 disks this way? Tommy Petersson etxtomp@eos.ericsson.se