Emax

Connecting a floppy drive to any Mac with OSX is a piece of cake.  
Connect it to a USB port and BANG! it shows up on the desktop.  LaCie 
makes one and it reads and writes Double Density disks.  The hardware 
isn't a problem, there's just no software for OSX.On Nov 8, 2005, at 
7:05 AM, poeml@cmdline.net wrote:

> On Tue, Nov 08, 2005 at 12:07:03AM -0000, djfiorucci wrote:
>  > Would one of you look at converting the EMX to a windows or Mac OSX
>  > program the source code is in the files section and the author Mike 
> Prudence
>  > has given his permission for anyone that wants to convert it.
>
>  Problem with a MacOS X version is that the (current) machines do not
>  have a floppy drive at all...
>  Older machines may be able to read/write the format -- I don't know. I
>  suppose they do.
>  If they are able to do it, the next question is whether there is 
> support
>  in the operating system for it, and how it is used. But using a 
> machine
>  with MacOS X likely means using a machine without floppy, and using a
>  machine with floppy means OS9 or older, and I have no experience of
>  programming in that environment.
>
>  For Windows, most machines are still equipped with a floppy, and there
>  is probably a way to write 800K disks... however a (very quick) google
>  search doesn't yield much.
> http://www.wilcom.com.au/support/truesizer/faq_display.cfm?id=283
>  doesn't sound promising. Maybe XP just doesn't support it.
>
>  I thought about a linux-on-a-floppy (or on CD) which could be booted 
> on
>  a windows machine, and which could contain the needed tools to access
>  images on the harddisk and write floppies. It could be more convenient
>  than booting DOS and doing it there.
>
>  Anyway, it would be cool to have a low-level library to
>  format/read/write disks which works on more than one OS, which could 
> be
>  used by EMAXLIB or other programs (like a simple port of good old 
> EMX).
>
>  Peter
>  --
>  the tasty can of spam imitated the tasty can of spam
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