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Phil,
From the Feb. 2000 issue of SOS...

http://www.ataricentral.com
http://www.incontrolinternet.co.uk/atari/index.html
http://www.sak.nu/
http://www.holmerup.com/

and the usual, trusty stand-bys...

http://www.harmony-central.com/Software/Atari/
http://www.hitsquad.com/smm/atari/

Jon


--- In AN1x-list@egroups.com, Phil <accession@o...> wrote:
> <***Sorry to everyone for the boring (ie. irrelevant) OT thread at the
> moment.> :-)))
> 
> Hi Peter,
> 
> A post I recieved on the Atari topic from another list said:
> 
> "...Yes.  PC will read Atari disks formatted on Atari TOS 1.04 or higher if
> you used the standard built in formatter.  I know midifiles and notator SL
> and logic files come out ok.  So do .TXT files, JPG, GIF and other picture
> files.  Files that are application dependent don't work of course."
> 
> 
> So I can only assume that Atari made a change for the outwards compatibility
> later down the track.
> 
> Cheers,
> 
> Phil
> 
> 
> 
> 
> 
> 
> From: "Peter Korsten" <peterk@i...>
> Reply-To: AN1x-list@egroups.com
> Date: Thu, 26 Oct 2000 01:11:21 +0200
> To: <AN1x-list@egroups.com>
> Subject: Re: [AN1x-list] Re: OT: Atari to PC File Convertor
> 
> 
> From: "Phil" <accession@o...>
> 
> > Thinking about it more, I've realised that something like a standard MIDI
> > file is well, a standard MIDI file. So my next question was "Can a PC read
> > Atari formatted disks?" and the answer apparently is "Yes".
> 
> Er, the answer is "no". An Atari can read and write MS-DOS formatted disks,
> however, since the only difference between MS-DOS and Atari formatted disks
> is the media decriptor byte (indeed, one byte on the entire disk).
> 
> I have no doubt that various tools and/or patches exist on the Atari
> platform to fix this, and perhaps more modern PC operating systems can read
> Atari disks.
> 
> - Peter
> 
> 
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