[geeks] Macintosh 400k disk help

Geoffrey S. Mendelson gsm at mendelson.com
Fri Nov 24 00:36:20 CST 2006


On Fri, Nov 24, 2006 at 01:08:10AM -0500, James Fogg wrote:

> Oddly, there's some PC software that will force a standard 1.44M PC
> floppy drive to write the 400K MacIntosh format. Google for it.

I had a Copy II board that went between the floppy drive and the controler
for copying copy protected PC disks that would read and write Mac disks.

I wonder if this will do it without hardware.

Mac disks are GCR (group coded recoding), PC disks are MFM.

Geoff.
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