Topic: Reading Mac formatted floppies under Windows 98? (Read 8156 times)

IKV Nemesis D7L · « **on:** February 24, 2004, 07:49:55 pm »

Does anyone have a link to a free utility to read Mac floppies on a PC (windows 98)? Trying to solve a problem for a friend but I have no Mac experience.

At this time using a PC formatted floppy in the Mac and transferring the data from Mac formatted floppy to PC formatted is not possible.

Sirgod · « **Reply #1 on:** February 24, 2004, 08:01:17 pm »

amac emulation site maybe? Haven't done It with a Mac, but have success with a C64 and Amiga to PC in the past.

Sorry Bro, Never had to that myself.

Stephen

IKV Nemesis D7L · « **Reply #2 on:** February 24, 2004, 08:10:02 pm »

Quote:

amac emulation site maybe?

Stephen

I have looked at some. But they seem to write in a style that assumes you know that Mac already. Most that I looked are are very unclear as to what they actually do and what OS they support. As I don't have a Mac floppy to play with I can't even experiment myself.

Thanks for the effort. I am sure that someone in this crew has had to solve this already. Unfortunately for this, all my friends are PC centric (they followed me

).

Death_Merchant · « **Reply #3 on:** February 25, 2004, 12:03:20 am »

Holy cow,
Mac's haven't had floppies for what? 6 years now...

You say networking the Mac to PC (like using Thursby's DAVE) is not possible?

I'll dig through some old stuff in my office. I vaguely remember something called Mac-PC Link. Probably out of print....

TB613 · « **Reply #4 on:** February 25, 2004, 04:12:32 am »

There is a shareware program called Trans Mac that will do the job. I have considered buying it since I do have one Mac although it is pricey at $64.00 and I think that for myself getting a copy of Dave, also pricey by PC standards, would be more useful since there is a PCI slot in the old Performa 6360 that I have..

Death_Merchant · « **Reply #6 on:** February 25, 2004, 11:07:41 pm »

Thursby DAVE has a demo also.
All you'd likely need is a crossover ethernet cable

Maxillius · « **Reply #7 on:** February 26, 2004, 04:48:06 pm »

OS X reads and writes for windows, just depends on the application that's supposed to read them. My PC-formatted zip disk works fine on the mac I'm on now

Death_Merchant · « **Reply #8 on:** February 26, 2004, 05:03:44 pm »

True enough,
I assumed the Mac in question was not running Mac OS X.

No stock Mac that had a floppy drive is capable of running Mac OS X.

LOL... OK.
I did manage to get Mac OS X running on an old PowerMac 8500 with a G4 accelerator card

However, the hacked unix driver for the floppy never did work quite right.....

Clark Kent · « **Reply #12 on:** February 26, 2004, 09:37:12 pm »

I never thought I'd see soemthing like this in here.
Sadly, this shouldn't be as hard as it is. Macs have been able to format and read floppy disks since system 7 (early to mid nineties). Most mac programs like clarisworks (now appleworks) also have the option to save files in a PC format (including the mac version of MS office programs). While Macs no longer come stadnard with floppies, even the most recent mac OS (OS X) still has the floppy dirvers built in, so you can still make floppy disks if you choose to have a drive (usually an external USB one).
that should clear up the problem for future use. There are mac emulation programs out there- I've seen them, I just can't remember where. Windows tends to not bend over backwards to be compatible with media from other sources like most companies do. Usually, when trying to go from one to the other, I try to make sure things are kosher from the Mac end.
CK

IKV Nemesis D7L · « **Reply #13 on:** February 29, 2004, 01:18:20 am »

The TransMac demo worked. Thanks a lot guys.

Sirgod · « **Reply #14 on:** February 29, 2004, 01:46:31 am »

That's Cool Nemesis, I'm glad you figured out how. I actually forgot all about Print shops, Like Kinkoes.

Stephen

Bonk · « **Reply #15 on:** February 29, 2004, 12:18:39 pm »

My experience with mac floppies is that the mac only recognises its own floppy filesystem about 30% of the time (and you can't eject the disk when it does not... get that paperclip out...) floppies are dreadfully unreliable, mac formatted floppies even worse... you are lucky to have recovered the data. (This may be my experience only due to the age of mac systems that use floppies...)

IKV Nemesis D7L · « **Reply #17 on:** February 24, 2004, 07:49:55 pm »

Does anyone have a link to a free utility to read Mac floppies on a PC (windows 98)? Trying to solve a problem for a friend but I have no Mac experience.

At this time using a PC formatted floppy in the Mac and transferring the data from Mac formatted floppy to PC formatted is not possible.

Sirgod · « **Reply #18 on:** February 24, 2004, 08:01:17 pm »

amac emulation site maybe? Haven't done It with a Mac, but have success with a C64 and Amiga to PC in the past.

Sorry Bro, Never had to that myself.

Stephen

Death_Merchant · « **Reply #20 on:** February 25, 2004, 12:03:20 am »

Holy cow,
Mac's haven't had floppies for what? 6 years now...

You say networking the Mac to PC (like using Thursby's DAVE) is not possible?

I'll dig through some old stuff in my office. I vaguely remember something called Mac-PC Link. Probably out of print....

TB613 · « **Reply #21 on:** February 25, 2004, 04:12:32 am »

There is a shareware program called Trans Mac that will do the job. I have considered buying it since I do have one Mac although it is pricey at $64.00 and I think that for myself getting a copy of Dave, also pricey by PC standards, would be more useful since there is a PCI slot in the old Performa 6360 that I have..

Death_Merchant · « **Reply #23 on:** February 25, 2004, 11:07:41 pm »

Thursby DAVE has a demo also.
All you'd likely need is a crossover ethernet cable

Maxillius · « **Reply #24 on:** February 26, 2004, 04:48:06 pm »

OS X reads and writes for windows, just depends on the application that's supposed to read them. My PC-formatted zip disk works fine on the mac I'm on now

Death_Merchant · « **Reply #25 on:** February 26, 2004, 05:03:44 pm »

True enough,
I assumed the Mac in question was not running Mac OS X.

No stock Mac that had a floppy drive is capable of running Mac OS X.

LOL... OK.
I did manage to get Mac OS X running on an old PowerMac 8500 with a G4 accelerator card

However, the hacked unix driver for the floppy never did work quite right.....

Clark Kent · « **Reply #29 on:** February 26, 2004, 09:37:12 pm »

I never thought I'd see soemthing like this in here.
Sadly, this shouldn't be as hard as it is. Macs have been able to format and read floppy disks since system 7 (early to mid nineties). Most mac programs like clarisworks (now appleworks) also have the option to save files in a PC format (including the mac version of MS office programs). While Macs no longer come stadnard with floppies, even the most recent mac OS (OS X) still has the floppy dirvers built in, so you can still make floppy disks if you choose to have a drive (usually an external USB one).
that should clear up the problem for future use. There are mac emulation programs out there- I've seen them, I just can't remember where. Windows tends to not bend over backwards to be compatible with media from other sources like most companies do. Usually, when trying to go from one to the other, I try to make sure things are kosher from the Mac end.
CK

IKV Nemesis D7L · « **Reply #30 on:** February 29, 2004, 01:18:20 am »

The TransMac demo worked. Thanks a lot guys.

Sirgod · « **Reply #31 on:** February 29, 2004, 01:46:31 am »

That's Cool Nemesis, I'm glad you figured out how. I actually forgot all about Print shops, Like Kinkoes.

Stephen

Bonk · « **Reply #32 on:** February 29, 2004, 12:18:39 pm »

My experience with mac floppies is that the mac only recognises its own floppy filesystem about 30% of the time (and you can't eject the disk when it does not... get that paperclip out...) floppies are dreadfully unreliable, mac formatted floppies even worse... you are lucky to have recovered the data. (This may be my experience only due to the age of mac systems that use floppies...)

IKV Nemesis D7L · « **Reply #34 on:** February 24, 2004, 07:49:55 pm »

Does anyone have a link to a free utility to read Mac floppies on a PC (windows 98)? Trying to solve a problem for a friend but I have no Mac experience.

At this time using a PC formatted floppy in the Mac and transferring the data from Mac formatted floppy to PC formatted is not possible.

Sirgod · « **Reply #35 on:** February 24, 2004, 08:01:17 pm »

amac emulation site maybe? Haven't done It with a Mac, but have success with a C64 and Amiga to PC in the past.

Sorry Bro, Never had to that myself.

Stephen

Death_Merchant · « **Reply #37 on:** February 25, 2004, 12:03:20 am »

Holy cow,
Mac's haven't had floppies for what? 6 years now...

You say networking the Mac to PC (like using Thursby's DAVE) is not possible?

I'll dig through some old stuff in my office. I vaguely remember something called Mac-PC Link. Probably out of print....

TB613 · « **Reply #38 on:** February 25, 2004, 04:12:32 am »

There is a shareware program called Trans Mac that will do the job. I have considered buying it since I do have one Mac although it is pricey at $64.00 and I think that for myself getting a copy of Dave, also pricey by PC standards, would be more useful since there is a PCI slot in the old Performa 6360 that I have..

Death_Merchant · « **Reply #40 on:** February 25, 2004, 11:07:41 pm »

Thursby DAVE has a demo also.
All you'd likely need is a crossover ethernet cable

Maxillius · « **Reply #41 on:** February 26, 2004, 04:48:06 pm »

OS X reads and writes for windows, just depends on the application that's supposed to read them. My PC-formatted zip disk works fine on the mac I'm on now

Death_Merchant · « **Reply #42 on:** February 26, 2004, 05:03:44 pm »

True enough,
I assumed the Mac in question was not running Mac OS X.

No stock Mac that had a floppy drive is capable of running Mac OS X.

LOL... OK.
I did manage to get Mac OS X running on an old PowerMac 8500 with a G4 accelerator card

However, the hacked unix driver for the floppy never did work quite right.....

Clark Kent · « **Reply #46 on:** February 26, 2004, 09:37:12 pm »

I never thought I'd see soemthing like this in here.
Sadly, this shouldn't be as hard as it is. Macs have been able to format and read floppy disks since system 7 (early to mid nineties). Most mac programs like clarisworks (now appleworks) also have the option to save files in a PC format (including the mac version of MS office programs). While Macs no longer come stadnard with floppies, even the most recent mac OS (OS X) still has the floppy dirvers built in, so you can still make floppy disks if you choose to have a drive (usually an external USB one).
that should clear up the problem for future use. There are mac emulation programs out there- I've seen them, I just can't remember where. Windows tends to not bend over backwards to be compatible with media from other sources like most companies do. Usually, when trying to go from one to the other, I try to make sure things are kosher from the Mac end.
CK

IKV Nemesis D7L · « **Reply #47 on:** February 29, 2004, 01:18:20 am »

The TransMac demo worked. Thanks a lot guys.

Sirgod · « **Reply #48 on:** February 29, 2004, 01:46:31 am »

That's Cool Nemesis, I'm glad you figured out how. I actually forgot all about Print shops, Like Kinkoes.

Stephen

Bonk · « **Reply #49 on:** February 29, 2004, 12:18:39 pm »

My experience with mac floppies is that the mac only recognises its own floppy filesystem about 30% of the time (and you can't eject the disk when it does not... get that paperclip out...) floppies are dreadfully unreliable, mac formatted floppies even worse... you are lucky to have recovered the data. (This may be my experience only due to the age of mac systems that use floppies...)

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