reading apple ii disks with PCs: it WORKS !!! - test-drb@ccmp.vtda.org

5 Jan 2004

On Jan 5, 19:43, Gene Buckle wrote:
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  > On Jan 5, 15:02, Gene Buckle wrote:
 > > Me, I want to know how they make an FM/MFM drive read a GCR disk...
...
  >
 > It's not a drive issue, it's a controller issue.  The bits on the disk
...
  > are just bits on a disk...  just alternating
magnetic poles.  There's
...
  > nothing strange or different about the heads or
amplifiers on an Apple,
...
   Commodore, or
Amiga drive.
 
 :r/drive/controller/ 
Not sure what you mean... I meant exactly what I wrote.  Ah, did you
mean that you meant "controller" instead of drive?  Then you need to
read the docs that accompany the software :-)
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