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>You can read and write MAC 800k floppy disks by plugging a MAC disk drive >in to the Amiga external floppy port and using AMIA s/w available from UU i did not know that. will it also work with a mac high density drive? i've tried looking for 800k mac drives, but they seem to have disappeared from the market. i can only find high density mac drives and they are quite expensive. >The minimum memory requirement is 2 meg of fast ram, 4 meg for system >7… and I'd at least double those for any serious use (but that's only i can get my amax4 to work with my 4 megs of fast ram. writenow, the lean & mean mac word pro :), works fine with system7.1 and maccim will tolerate it. i even have a few extensions working too. 🙂 it's a tight squeeze, but it will work. it would love to have 16 megs of fast ram, but that isn't really practical for me considering the expense of SC ZIP chips. 🙁 i have other things i want to blow money on…. 🙂 >I'm not sure what you mean. I have a HiDensity Amiga floppy drive in my >A3000 and have no problem reading or writing HiDensity floppy disks in it >using either board. i do not know if i said something backwards, or you read it backwards but i can read mac high density floppies without any problems. it's the 800k floppies that prove to be the problem. the amax2+ would not always read them via a 3000's high density drive. it would read 800k mac floppies from a low density amiga drive, but might chew them up if you use the amiga high density drive. so far the amax4 does not appear to have this problem, though it does seem a litle pickier when it comes to 800k mac floppies than it is with 1.44mb mac floppies. >Emplant MAC emulation on my A3000/25 with 8 meg of fast memory and a 16 >color ECS screen moves at a relatively ok speed. I can imagine it really >flies when an 040 and a 24 bit board are employed. you have not lived until you have clicked on a folder and then waited until the window was drawn on an amax4 16 colour ecs screen. 🙂 now you've gone and done…. 🙂 i've been tempted to get an emplant before, now i really want one. 🙂 if only i could find someone to pass this amax4 to so i could buy an emplant…. 🙂 what, you mean you haven't sold a kidney so you could buy a 24-bit card? 🙂 now if only i could find a 3000T/040 for a reasonable price…. 🙂 priorities, priorities…. 🙂 bob – 1:226/600.3@fidonet.org – zooming by in his TIE Interceptor on AutoPilot