Re: ADT (Apple Disk Transfer) 1.22 Ported to the Amiga

[agmsmith@dragon.achilles.net (Alexander G. M. Smith)]

supertimer@aol.com (Supertimer) wrote on 10 Feb 2000 06:36:02 GMT:
>Ok, how about giving us the reverse!  I'd like to see an
>Amiga FST for reading and writing Amiga file system
>disks on the IIGS.  It would be especially useful to IIGS
>Zip drive users since the Zip drive is a hardware that
>can be used by both the Amiga and the IIGS.  Zip
>drives are quite common to IIGS users.

Probably a bit of overkill.  I'd have to get a GS, learn to
program it then write the FST.  I doubt that the GS hardware
can even read Amiga floppy disks (they have a custom format
which gets 880K on a 720K floppy).

It would be easier to just write your ZIP disks using an
MS-DOS file system on the Amiga and read it with an MS-DOS
file system on the GS (I assume that one exists).  For that
matter, the same trick would work with floppy disks if the
GS can read MS-DOS format floppies.

Or perhaps set up networking over the serial port (PPP),
and use Samba (Microsoft SMB networking compatible)
software on both sides to share disk drives.  Nah, too
much work, I like the ZIP disks idea better :-).

- Alex