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From: pfr654@csc.anu.oz
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga
Subject: Re: AMax
Message-ID: <736.25289c02@csc.anu.oz>
Date: 3 Oct 89 11:46:10 GMT
References: <89091711024424@masnet.uucp>
Organization: Computer Services, Australian National University
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In article <89091711024424@masnet.uucp>, geoffrey.birt@canremote.uucp (GEOFFREY BIRT) writes:
>   I head so many different things about this program that i think I'm 
> going to kill the next person. Here is the question: "Do you or do you 
> not need a Mac drive to use AMax?" Some say yes because you need it to 
> format a disk.  
>   Well anyway can some body please help me!! 
> 
> Geoffrey Birt
> 3100 Kingston Rd. #42
> Scarbrough ONT. CANADA
> M1M 3T4
> 
>  
> ---
>  * Via ProDoor 3.1aR 

No, you don't need a Mac drive to run Amax. Its just that the Amiga disk format
is different from the Mac disk format, such that you can't just swap the disks
from a Mac to the Amax and use it. However, if you have access to a Mac drive,
it can be connected to the Amax, then the disk can be copied from the Mac
format to the Amax format disk in the internal drive, and then the Mac disk
does not need to be used any more. Alternatively, you could download all of the
Mac stuff you were planning to use from bulletin boards etc and load them
directly onto the Amax disks. The Amax = a Macintosh with a different disk
drive, and therefor different drive format.

Hope this helps.
Phil Ryan
Australian National University
pfr654@csc.anu.oz