Amiga with external FDD from Mac

prowler · 06 May 2009, 19:02

Earlier today, in this thread (now closed):
http://eab.abime.net/showthread.php?t=44557
s2325 asked,

Quote:

Is it possible to connect external Macintosh 3.5' floppy disk drive to PC? How can I do it?

Jope replied,

Quote:

Buy a catweasel. This is not really Amiga hardware related..

before closing the thread.

I am happy to report that it is possible to connect an external Macintosh 3.5-inch floppy disk drive to an Amiga.

Details here on Aminet:
http://aminet.net/package/docs/hard/MacInterface

prowler

PS. I would have posted this information in the original thread, which would thus have become Amiga hardware related if it had not been closed so quickly.

s2325 · 06 May 2009, 20:08

Thank you. I can not buy Catweasel anywhere in my country.

prowler · 07 May 2009, 02:10

Hi s2325,

You're welcome!

Is it an 800K Macintosh drive?

If it is and you manage to get the drive hooked up to the Amiga, it may be possible to read Macintosh 800K disks in A-Max emulation and copy them to A-Max formatted disks, which are compatible with Amiga floppy drives.

prowler

prowler · 23 May 2009, 20:55

Hi s2325,

If you're still more keen to read Macintosh floppies on a PC than on an Amiga, then you have two choices really, and neither choice requires you to connect a Macintosh flopy drive to the PC.

The choice depends on which type of floppy disk you wish to read.

If you have 1.44MB Mac formatted floppy disks, then these can be read in a standard 1.44MB PC floppy drive with MacDisk, TransMac or MacDrive programs loaded.
MacDisk: http://www.macdisk.com/downlen.php3
TransMac: http://www.asy.com/scrtm.htm
MacDrive: http://new.mediafour.com/support/

The disks can also be read and imaged with Gemulator Explorer or HFVExplorer running, and images can be made of these disks using the RAWRITE2 command line disk imaging utility for DOS. I havec uploaded a copy of RAWRITE2 v1.1 to the Zone.

Genulator Explorer: http://www.emulators.com/download.htm (under 'Utilities and Drivers')
HFVExplorer: http://www.fenestrated.net/~macman/stuff/HFVExplorer/

If you have the older 400kB or 800kB GCR-encoded floppies, then these can be imaged using Disk2FDI Registered version:
http://www.oldskool.org/disk2fdi/

prowler

Jope · 24 August 2012, 07:54

Cleaned it up again, the mac discussion is now here:

http://eab.abime.net/showthread.php?t=65544

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06 May 2009, 20:08	#2
s2325 Zone Friend Join Date: Jun 2006 Location: Gargore Age: 44 Posts: 17,789	Thank you. I can not buy Catweasel anywhere in my country.

07 May 2009, 02:10	#3
prowler Global Moderator Join Date: Aug 2008 Location: Sidcup, England Posts: 10,300	Hi s2325, You're welcome! Is it an 800K Macintosh drive? If it is and you manage to get the drive hooked up to the Amiga, it may be possible to read Macintosh 800K disks in A-Max emulation and copy them to A-Max formatted disks, which are compatible with Amiga floppy drives. prowler

23 May 2009, 20:55	#4
prowler Global Moderator Join Date: Aug 2008 Location: Sidcup, England Posts: 10,300	Hi s2325, If you're still more keen to read Macintosh floppies on a PC than on an Amiga, then you have two choices really, and neither choice requires you to connect a Macintosh flopy drive to the PC. The choice depends on which type of floppy disk you wish to read. If you have 1.44MB Mac formatted floppy disks, then these can be read in a standard 1.44MB PC floppy drive with MacDisk, TransMac or MacDrive programs loaded. MacDisk: http://www.macdisk.com/downlen.php3 TransMac: http://www.asy.com/scrtm.htm MacDrive: http://new.mediafour.com/support/ The disks can also be read and imaged with Gemulator Explorer or HFVExplorer running, and images can be made of these disks using the RAWRITE2 command line disk imaging utility for DOS. I havec uploaded a copy of RAWRITE2 v1.1 to the Zone. Genulator Explorer: http://www.emulators.com/download.htm (under 'Utilities and Drivers') HFVExplorer: http://www.fenestrated.net/~macman/stuff/HFVExplorer/ If you have the older 400kB or 800kB GCR-encoded floppies, then these can be imaged using Disk2FDI Registered version: http://www.oldskool.org/disk2fdi/ prowler

24 August 2012, 07:54	#5
Jope - Join Date: Jul 2003 Location: Helsinki / Finland Age: 43 Posts: 9,910	Cleaned it up again, the mac discussion is now here: http://eab.abime.net/showthread.php?t=65544

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