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Apple II Technical Note UniDisk 3.5 4: Accessing Macintosh Disks

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Apple II Technical Note UniDisk 3.5 #4, Accessing Macintosh Disks, is a three-page Apple Developer Technical Support note written by Mike Askins (May 1985) and revised by Matt Deatherage (November 1988).

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It states that the Apple UniDisk 3.5 disk format is essentially the Macintosh format, lists three differences (524-byte against 512-byte blocks, single-sided MFS disks, and 2:1 against 4:1 interleave), and shows how to read Macintosh blocks through SmartPort.

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A programming note: no hardware or service information.

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Download: Apple II Technical Note UniDisk 3.5 4 Accessing Macintosh Disks.pdf