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AMIA

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#77464From: Jim Drew/UUIMar 23, 1994 2:28 AM
Attention EMPLANT owners! Utilities Unlimited International, Inc. is pleased to announce another breakthru in emulation technology… 'AMIA' AMIA (Amiga<>Mac Interface Adapter) is a tiny interface that allows you to use MAC floppy drives on your Amiga! AMIA plugs into the last external disk drive in your system (or into the Amiga disk drive port, if no external drives are used) and allows any MAC or MAC compatible low density floppy drive to be attached. Unlike previous 'hacks', AMIA was designed with multitasking in mind, and because of this, you will be able to read/write/format disks right from Workbench! AMIA is affordably price at $59.95 and we are taking orders now. This product will be available in approximately 30 days.
#77497From: Donovan WattsMar 23, 1994 3:12 PM
Finally! I'll be ordering one for sure. ..DonovaN
#77542From: Denny Atkin [COMPUTE/AmiMar 23, 1994 10:46 PM
Jim, Are you going to do an interface for Amiga drives as well?
#77609From: Jim Drew/UUIMar 24, 1994 11:54 PM
Yes, Denny. 🙂
#77676From: Steve Bennett/SYSOPMar 25, 1994 9:19 PM
>>Are you going to do an interface for Amiga drives as well?<< >>Yes, Denny. :-)<< Jim, You lost me… an interface for Amiga drives that does what?
#77692From: Jim Drew/UUIMar 26, 1994 3:19 AM
Michael, I designed a half-height Zorro board that lets you connect your stanard Amiga floppy drives to it to allow reading/writing of virtually any disk format known, including Macintosh 800K format. The board is also capable of duplicating magnetic flux transitions in real time, making it ideal for backing up copy-protected disks. Another neat feature is the ability to use standard IBM high density drives with the Amiga using this board. You could also use 2.88 drive guts and get 3.52 megs of storage on a single floppy!
#77706From: Steve Bennett/SYSOPMar 26, 1994 8:48 AM
Jim, So, how come you didn't do this two years ago? <g> Great news… and congratulations. BTW… does this means that I could run the cable from my current internal CBM HiDensity floppy to your AMIA board instead of to the A3000 motherboard floppy connector and be able to read/write all of these floppy formats?
#77854From: regis rampnouxMar 28, 1994 8:30 AM
Does we need MAC floppy for this ? I have yet an 800K Mac drive : can I use it ?
#77643From: Steve Bennett/SYSOPMar 25, 1994 12:50 PM
Outstanding Jim! Congratulations!!