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Apple II <-> Commodore 64/128 disks?
- Subject: Apple II <-> Commodore 64/128 disks?
- From: wmcbrine@clark.net (William McBrine)
- Date: 1997/08/01
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.apple2
- Organization: Clark Internet Services, Inc.
The Apple II FAQ states that Apple disks are incompatible with IBM PC
drives, and vice versa, because Apple drives use GCR encoding, where PC
drives use MFM. This got my attention, because the Commodore 64's 1541
drive also uses GCR -- and the 128's 1571 drive is a dual mode drive, so
it can exchange data with PC drives. (The MFM mode was originally meant
for use with CP/M, but can work with MSDOS disks, too.)
Is there any software for the Apple II OR C64/C128 to enable one system to
read and/or write the others' disks?
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