Date   : Tue, 07 Sep 1999 05:59:49 -0700 (PDT)
From   : FARAZ CHOUDHRY <razzledazzler2@...>
Subject: Re: Macintosh -> BBC disk image transfer

Man, you shouldn't have got rid of your A310.  All you would need to
have done then was if you had a 8-bit format floppy of any size, use
the Acorn Internet software to download the BBC stuff onto it!  I
personally also think Acorns are better than Apples!

Anyhow, I didn't know there was a BBC Emulator for Apple Mac.  I would
imagine though that the files are unaltered in compatibiliy with actual
Beebs and so just serial link to it.  A 65x02 file is the same, I would
imagine, whichever it's loaded into, any emulator or the real thing.  I
can't see why people must write programs specific for an emulator, it's
stupid.

                                    I hope that helps,
                                    F. H. Choudhry


--- James Woodman <jrw@...> wrote:
> 
> Hi, I'm new here.  And I've got a question:
> 
> Has anyone managed to transfer BBC disk image files
> (from the Internet)
> back onto a BBC disk?  Without a 5.25" disk drive or
> a PC?
> 
> I've got an Apple Mac, which has been my only
> computer since I got rid of
> my A310 in 1995.  Today I picked up a free BBC B+
> with two floppy drives,
> but I don't have any software for it.  There seems
> to be a lot of stuff
> available out there, but it's all designed for
> people with emulators.
> 
> The most sensible way seems to be to use the Mac to
> send the raw data of
> the file over a serial link, then write a program on
> the BBC that will
> write that directly to disk.  Is that likely to
> work?  Are the image files
> exact copies of the original disk?  If so, can
> anyone point me in the
> direction of some documentation for OS_Word &7F (or
> whichever one it is
> that I might need...)?
> 
> I apologise if this has been dealt with before on
> the list, but I can't
> find anything in the archives or on any of the web
> sites I know.  Lots of
> people seem to have come up with ways of getting
> programs from PCs to
> BBCs, but I can't find anything about Apple Macs.
> 
> Thanks for the help,
> 
> James Woodman
> jrw@...
> 
> 

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