Date : Wed, 21 Jul 1999 17:19:00 +0100
From : Chris Richardson <chris@...>
Subject: Re: Making disks from disk images
Hi all!
The software to write a disc image directly to a BBC disc now exists and
will shortly be available.
You just need the serial link and Stuart McConnachie's PCBBC. You will
have to wait a while until Stuart is happy that the software is bug free
before he releases it, but I am using/testing it at the moment and it
works a treat. For more info see:
http://chroma.media.keele.ac.uk/8bs/filecon.htm
(down at the bottom of the page)
Chris
Jonathan Graham Harston wrote:
>
> Jon Bloomfield <Jon.Bloomfield@...> wrote:
> > There was a thread recently concerning the generation of disk image
> > files from BBC disks.
> >
> > Has anyone out there tried to go in the other direction? I have just
> > been given a BBC Master, with a disk drive, but there was no software
> > with it. I'd like to try and create some disks from the images in the
> > software archive.
>
> "A.J.Dawson" <A.J.Dawson@...> wrote:
> > I am also in the same situation, I have a number of images of disks that
> > I would like to use on my BBC B+, but at the moment have no idea how to
> > get the images onto BBC disks! If anyone out there can offer any help
> > that would be greatly appreciated!
>
> The BACKUP program supplied with HADFS will do this, as I mentioned in a
> previous message:
> > available at:
> > http://mdfs.net/Apps/DiskTools/BACKUP
> >
> > On running, you are prompted for source and destination drive numbers.
> > At these prompts you can also enter filenames, so you could, for
> > example, copy the disk in drive 0 to a file on an ADFS disk with:
> >
> > Source drive: 0
> > Dest. drive: -adfs-:1.$.DFSImage
>
> So to copy an image to a disk, you would do something like
>
> Source drive: -adfs-:1.$.DFSImage
> Dest drive: 0
>
> Mike Tomlinson wrote:
> > So the obvious (to me) way forward would be to produce software which
> > would send the image down the PC's serial port, writing it sector-by-
> > sector to a fresh disc in the Beeb. This would require software for
> > both ends of the link.
> > I don't think such software exists, does it?
>
> I can give it a go. It would be an extension of some existing software.
>
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