from PC to Amiga using disks

[Neo]

If you get a CDROM that is not from the stoneage you would be able to read CD's written on a PC as long as you use the standard ISO modes.

Unfortunatly, if you use the standard CD filesystem with the Amiga you can only read PC CD's with DOS 8.3 names.

For floppys I suggest FAT95 from aminet. CrossDOS that is included in AmigaOS suxx!

[kvasarnomad]

do you have to run the program crossdos in the comodites drawer on extras disk to crossdos to work?

and if i buy a cd-rom drive do they come with the drivers on disks(silly question).
i have seen there are external cd drives with their own power source, but do you have to open the amiga or have it in a tower to have them installed

[Abou27]

No, you don't need to run CrossDOS in commodities drawer just to be able to access PC disks.  Just run PC0 or PC1 from DosDrivers drawer on either Workbench: or Storage: disks.  As said before, format as 720k on PC rather than Amiga.


I was also enquiring about CDs on the Amiga recently and got many helpful replies. :-)

http://www.amiga.org/forums/showthread.php?t=5862