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From: kudla@pawl.rpi.edu (Robert J. Kudla)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga
Subject: Re: Reading MS-DOS Disks on the Amiga
Message-ID: <1989Oct2.130815.11700@rpi.edu>
Date: 2 Oct 89 13:08:15 GMT
References: <20254@usc.edu>
Organization: Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, Troy, NY
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In-Reply-To: acliu@skat.usc.edu's message of 2 Oct 89 12:38:07 GMT
In <20254@usc.edu> acliu@skat.usc.edu (Alejandro Liu) writes:
Alejandro> Hi,
Alejandro> I was wondering, is there any PD package for the amiga that would
Alejandro> let the standard amiga 3.5 drive read MS-DOS disks?
There are at least two (there are actually more but the other ones
I've seen really suck). PCPatch will modify a running copy of PCCopy
(from the Extras disk) to use the internal drive. CrossDos is
available in a read-only version for free; it installs, I believe, as
a device driver and you can treat ms-dos disks as AmigaDos-compatible.
A full version is available for I don't recall how much, it was
something like $50 I think, and there are ads in most of the new
issues of Amiga magazines (I know I saw one in AC). I haven't tried
Crossdos; don't recall where to get it. PCPatch works pretty well,
except there are some AT&T 386 machines here I can't get it to work
with even if I format to 720k (or 360k for that matter).
PCPatch is available, I believe, on one of the Fish disks.
--
Robert Jude Kudla
What noisy cats are we.