Date   : Fri, 26 Feb 1999 13:00:27 +0000
From   : "Dr . David Alan Gilbert" <dg@...>
Subject: Re: BBC to PC Transfer

At 11:47 AM 2/26/99 -0000, Fraser, Colin J wrote:
>I've tried everything I can find to read BBC disks directly on my PC with no
>luck.
>I have an old Archimedes 310 in a cupboard that hasn't been powered up in
>years because the mouse got lost.
>IIRC the Archie will read and write DFS, ADFS and 720k MSDOS disks.
>
>Is that right ?

Yes - although you need some extra software to access the MSDOS discs
(although it 
came with RiscOS 3).

>And if so, is there any software that will create a disk image from a BBC
>disk on an Archimedes that I can then transfer to the PC on a FAT disk ?

Yes !Zap editor; it can read discs raw and create an image.

Dave