Re: Decoding a Disk

[st3b1@jetson.uh.edu (Fretz, David)]

In article <sundermm.185.0@columbia.dsu.edu>, sundermm@columbia.dsu.edu (MARC SUNDERMEYER) writes...
>	Yea, I know it's like a foriegn country for an Apple disk to be in 
>an IBM clone computer but...
> 
>	Is there some program out there in the world that will allow my 
>computer to read Apple or Mac disks and maybe by chance write to them? 
> 
> 
>	Otherwise,  I have to wait so I can purchace a Mac so I can work the 
>reverse way much easier.  :)
> 
I assume the computer you are refering to is the clone.  I know of two ways.
However, neither is a program.  A Trackstar is able to read Dos 3.3 and Prodos  
This is with the last version of the board.  I got the middle version which
only works with dos 3.3.  The converter hooks directly to the pc 5.25 drive and 
then the drive cable for the pc hooks to that.  There is also a seperate Disk II
connector that hooks up to the card to get around copy protections.  However
Diamond Computers doesn't seem to support this card very much these days.  I
got my card at some kind of fire sale without the disk.  Getting
the disk took around 10 calls before I could get anyone to admit they made 
the thing.
	The other card was made by Central Point.  I forget the name of the 
card.  It allowed the reading of HFS disks through the PC 3.5.  It also could 
read MFS but why?  Anyways with GSOS you can then read the "HFS" formated 
disks.  Another way of doing it, however, is to see if you can buy a 
PCTransporter for the Apple with drives.  Then read the pc disks directly to 
your desktop via the MSDOS FST in GSOS 6.0.1.  These last two are pretty much 
equal in simplicity.  Each of these products can read and write to their 
respective formats.   
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