Re: Apple 3.5" drive questions

["Redskull" <redskulldc@DESPAM.yahoo.com.au>]

"GarberStreet Enterprises" <willy46pa@comcast.net> wrote in message
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>
> > "uncopyable" disks -- it came out in the late 1980s, and apparently
didn't
> > sell too well, so good luck finding one); another is the CatWeasel
series
> of
> > boards (http://www.jschoenfeld.com/indexe.htm), which I haven't tried
> myself
> > but purport to read every disk format you can throw at them. CatWeasel's
> > somewhat Amiga-centric (the PC software is very limited in
functionality),
> > but so far I haven't seen anything else like it that's actually in
> > production.
>
> I read about the CatWeasel, and from what I have gathered they aren't even
> close to being able to read any disk on the PC, and you have to just about
> write the software yourself to make it work.
>
> Bill @ GarberStreet Enterprises
> http://garberstreet.netfirms.com

As mentioned, the software for the PC side is fairly limited.
The easiest option is to run WinUAE (Amiga emulator) on your PC.
The latest versions of WinUAE support the Catweasel card plugged into
your PC using the drivers on the Amiga side.

The Amiga catweasel drivers supports read/write of both 5.25 Apple disks,
aswell as 3.5" Prodos or MAC formatted disks with no problems at all.

Works great here on my WinXP box.

Cheers,
Red