Gettng Amiga floppies to Macs

[amiga_3k]

Dana:

May I suggest option #3? It's the one I'm using.

I've got an Apple 9600/300 with the standard internal ZIP drive. A few months ago I got me an A2000 again (after years of absence) and shoe-horned a few bits and pieces from a retired Apple 8600/250. Initially I wanted to take the internal SCSI ZIP of that unit and fit it into the Amiga but decided to opt for an second hand external ZIP SCSI drive, which came with media :-). Using CrossMAC on the Amiga-end I can read and write Mac formatted ZIP disks making the transfer of files rather straightforward and quick. Disadvantages? Yes. Which? Longfilenames. But that can be worked-around by packing files into a ZIP archive, securing the longfilenames.

[amiga_3k]

Dana:

Just re-read your initial post: 70-ish Apples? My wife should read this :-) She thinks I'm a lunatic with an A2000, A4000T a couple (three or four) of 1st series iMacs and the Big Box 9600.

Oh, you might need to do some fine-tuning on CrossMAC. On my A2000 diskchanges of the ZIP drive are not recognized correctly, making the machine freeze-up. A quick re-boot is enough to solve it. I'm positive that a neet solution to this problem exists but as it takes only like 10 to 20 secs for the kick2.0 A2000 to fully re-boot it would probably take a lot of re-boots to justify the research time for that solution.