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PC disk support?

    06-Mar-90 11:42:17
Sb: #24355-PC disk support?
Fm: Syndesis 76004,1763
To: John M. Dlugosz 74066,3717
Yes, you asked about C code to support a PC file system on a foriegn machine. I recall seeing an ad in C Journal that had something like that, for a very cheap price, on the order of $100 or so. I think I even called them, once, and had a hard time getting through to a technical person. The name Crosby comes to mind for the company name. There are at least three MS-DOS file systems available for the Amiga, one a commercial product, one PD, one unreleased. I think the unreleased one was written mostly in C, by a group of developers who traditionally release source code to their tools. There are two or three other utilities for the Amiga that can read and write MD-DOS disks, but they aren't drop-in file systems. So you might want to keep an eye peeled for Amiga / 68000 file systems. Was it you, or Al Stevens, who recently in a recent column called the Amiga an "amazing and wonderful system"? Gee, maybe the Amiga people here are having *some* effect. 🙂