Re: AppleII Disk read by Amiga?

[spector@vax2.concordia.ca (Mitchell Spector)]

In article tvdm@urix2.uni-muenster.de (Timm von der Mehden) writes...
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>Does anyone have an idea, how to read AppleII-Disks with a C=Amiga? 

	I've no idea if it's possible to read 3.5" 800k/1.44mb ProDOS
disks on the Amiga, but I have seen it access 143k GCR diskettes (both
DOS 3.3 and ProDOS). It requires an Amiga model 1020 5.25 drive and a
program such as "Fruit ][ Friend" for example. It works with 40 and 80
track disks. The same drive will also apparently read C=64 and IBM 5.25
floppies, which is probably the reason the drive is so massive! ;-)

	On a note of interest, Applied Engineering used to advertise
their IIgs/Mac 3.5 drives as functional on the Amiga. I've no idea 
if any hardware modifications were used or special software drivers
present, but it's made me curious whether Apple drives work on the 
Amiga or visa versa. My brother's Amiga 500 can read IBM 720k MFM
disks from it's 3.5 floppy drive FYI, so it's quite possible it may
be able to read Apple II 1.44mb disks (as they're MFM encoded). ProDOS
and HFS disks with GCR encoding may be a different story though...

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Mitchell Spector
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