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Re: Transferring files between Mac and Amiga with floppy disc
« on: August 07, 2008, 04:26:16 AM »
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persia wrote:
Is there such a thing as a Mac floppy?  I've been working with Macs for about 5 years and have never seen one...




Yeah, the only floppy your going to see with a Mac these days will likely be a USB floppy, but you are dating yourself as a young whipper-snapper!  :lol:

All us old-timers remember the old Macs that all came with floppy drives as standard equipment, but to read a Mac floppy on an Amiga you needed a program called CrossMac.

Modern Macs can all read PC formatted floppies as far as I know and if you have AmigaOS3.1 or above, it should have CrossDOS included which I believe can format a floppy in 720kb, or 1.44mb PC capacity depending on if you have a DD or HD Amiga floppy drive.  So format the floppy disk in the Amiga and use it to transfer your files to/from the Mac.
How are you helping the Amiga community? :)