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From: Andreas Kohlbach <sep14.5.ankman@spamgourmet.com>
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Subject: Re: [Q] Reading Amiga disks on a Mac
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Your Name wrote on 13. September 2014:
>
> In article <87egvfi6nr.fsf@usenet.ankman.de>, Andreas Kohlbach
> <sep14.5.ankman@spamgourmet.com> wrote:
>> Your Name wrote on 13. September 2014:
>> >
>> > I probably already know the answer to this, but has anyone managed to
>> > work out a way to read Amiga floppy disks on a Mac?
>> 
>> What Mac and Amiga models are we talking about?
>> 
>> From what I know it only works the other way round: Amiga can read PC,
>> Mac and Atari ST 720 KB disks.
>> 
>> <http://www.lemonamiga.com/help/faq_crossplatform.php>
>> 
>> If you have the two machines close together you might be able to connect
>> them with a (null modem?) cable and share files and directories to copy
>> them over without using floppies.
>
> Unfortunately I no longer have a (working) Amiga, but do have a huge
> pile of floppy disks.
>
> You can get hardware add-ons that reportedly work with Windows, but
> they're a bit expensive.

What floppy hardware do you have there anyway? If it's just a PC there's
nothing to do. You would need to purchase other hardware then. Why not an
Amiga then anyway?

But if your floppies contain wide known software you might even find a
dump in the internet and download that as floppy image.
-- 
Andreas

I wish my grass was emo. Then it would cut itself.