Re: Looking for MS-DOS translator for IIgs

[daver@drift.winternet.com (Dave Roberts)]

dempson@actrix.gen.nz (David Empson) writes:
[really informative post]
>A fourth possibility is a PC Transporter.  It pulls some tricks to
>allow an Apple 3.5 Drive to read and write 720k MS-DOS disks, albeit
>slowly.  If you decided to get a PC Transporter, I'd recommend getting
>another disk drive for it, and leaving your existing Apple 3.5 Drive
>connected to the IIgs disk port.  A 3.5" drive connected to the PC
>Transporter is _very_ slow at accessing Apple disks, and is not
>compatible with some software (particularly copy protected software,
>demos and games which don't run under GS/OS or standard ProDOS-8).

	One other annoyance, disks formatted and written to by
the PCT on an Apple 3.5" drive show up as having bad sectors
on clones. Kinda a pain when you have that 5 page report on disk
and go to print it out on the school's laser printers but it
can't be read :(
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Dave J. Roberts [daver on IRC - #appleiigs]                /|
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