At 2:43 am +0100 7/8/99, Diggory Gray wrote: >Ah, yes question - if I got a disk drive (sore point for iMAC owners), could I >retrieve stuff from original SAM disks?
I doubt it. I don't know about any Mac software which will read Sam's native disk format. You *might* be able to save files using KE_Disk onto a 720K FAT (PC) floppy disk, and read those - that's what I usually do. BUT I've heard reports that the USB SuperDrive will not read Double-density disks. Then again, I've heard reports that that only applies to Mac DD disks and that PC DD disks are okay.[1] So try before you buy. >Ooo, another: How do I get things like TD0 and others bits to DSK format >for SIMCoupe? >(No PC handy) Tricky. TD0 files are almost dead in the water - most PCs can't read those either, these days. For other files, I have a program (quickly hacked together in C, most of which should be totally cross-platform except calling the Open and Save dialogue boxes) which can transfer files to and from a .dsk image. I guess I should upload it to mnemotech.ucam.org or somewhere... Andrew [1] Which would make a certain amount of sense, because Mac DD disks use a weird position-dependant sector size which has to be supported in hardware, wheras Mac HD disks do not,and PC disks do not. PS. You have a very nice cat, but might I draw your attention to that fact that sig files, by convention, are limited to four lines... > /\ /\ > / \ / \ > / \___/ \ >| | >| . . | > | Y | > \ \_^_/ / > \ / > / \ > / \ >/ \ >| | Y | | >| | | | | >| | ^ | \__ >\__(...)_(...)___ \ > \ | > _____/ | > / ______/ > \/ -- -- Andrew Collier ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) -- My other -- http://mnemotech.ucam.org -- .sig is a -- Part 3 Materials Science, Cambridge -- PDF file --
