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Old 01-06-2004, 11:15 AM   #1
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Default Catweasels, Windows and Mac disks?

Red plays with these more than me, and he is unavailable today so hopefully someone in here can answer a question.

I have a customer who wants a Catweasel ISA or possibly PCI/MK3 to use with NT or 98 to be able to read Mac floppies.

My question is do either of these support mac 800K floppies via Windows? If so which one and which version of Windows? Thanks in advance.
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Default Re: Catweasels, Windows and Mac disks?

I remember reading in Amiga Format that Windows support for the ISA card was a little weak, but I'm not entirely sure. That may have only been for reading Amiga floppies, though. And those problems may have been corrected by now.

I've got a MK3/PCI in my AmigaOne, but I haven't tested any of its floppy compatibilities yet.

The MK3 driver CD is pretty vague, but there are definitely drivers for the card for 2K and 9x. The only operating documentation on the CD is in German, so I can't tell what formats are usable. Maybe Jens Schoenfeld could help clear things up...

EDIT: From the Individual Computers website:
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Even the 800KByte disks from older Macintosh computers can be used in standard 1,44MB drives, although the original drives have rotated their disks at variable speeds. You can get a complete overview over the supported formats in the technical data. Even if the format you desire is not yet supported, it only requires a driver update to get new features out of the controller.
I think this is going to be a manual upgrade....
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