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Offline Speelgoedmannetje

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Re: Can I make Amiga floppies on a Mac?
« Reply #14 from previous page: October 06, 2008, 08:29:37 PM »
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Re: Can I make Amiga floppies on a Mac?
« Reply #15 on: October 06, 2008, 08:55:37 PM »
Realy you need a Amiga Dos disk to be able to transfer ADFs to floppys - Have you got any Games,Apps or Coverdisks that boot through AmigaDos maybe Dpaint?

Edit:Although if youve got Kickstart 1.3 your still probably gonna need CrossDos - Strangley PPaint and a few other Dos discs have the CrossDos library.
 

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Re: Can I make Amiga floppies on a Mac?
« Reply #16 on: October 06, 2008, 11:13:34 PM »
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There was an update of the driver software in september 2007, but it looks like there still is no mac driver available.
Maybe the card can work in a mac with a pc emulator, if there is a pc emulator on the mac that is capable of accessing pci slots directly?


Catweasel ain't cheap.  I bet it costs more than what he got his 500 for.  :)

Will the pci catweasel work in a mac running UAE?  (is there a mac version of UAE?)

Sparing that, for PCs, ubuntu linux will boot to a desktop right off the cd.  I'm not sure if there's a mac version of ubuntu, but maybe yellowdog does the same thing.  From there, you could use modprobe to load the linux catweasel drivers into the kernel.  That should work.  Lots of money and time just for a workbench disk.  It's probably better just to buy a set off of ebay.

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Re: Can I make Amiga floppies on a Mac?
« Reply #17 on: October 13, 2008, 04:50:42 PM »
maybe you could try amiga explorer.
i think its $14. install it on  a PC, connect to the amiga via serial port, and install the client on the amiga side. hmmm, workbench floppy disk required i guess, but at least it can push the client software to the amiga over the serial link... i don't know if there is a MAC version...

but then you can drag and drop ADF files to and from the amiga floppy drive.

i just hope with all that lint you mentioned its ok! you may need a drive head cleaner... :-)

A500, A600, A1200x3, A2000, A3000, A4000 & a CD32.
and probably just like the rest of you, crates full of related "treasure" for the above XD