Date   : Tue, 07 Sep 1999 08:39:56 -0500 (CDT)
From   : James Woodman <jrw@...>
Subject: Re: Macintosh -> BBC disk image transfer

On Tue, 7 Sep 1999, FARAZ CHOUDHRY wrote:

> Man, you shouldn't have got rid of your A310.

True.  But then I should never have got rid of my BBC A, or all the
programs I had for it...

> I personally also think Acorns are better than Apples!

No contest, I agree.  But the A310 was old, only had a floppy drive and
1Mb of RAM, and I needed a new computer.  The Mac was a lot cheaper than a
RiscPC.

> Anyhow, I didn't know there was a BBC Emulator for Apple Mac.

It's a shareware one called "Horizon".  I've never actually had anything
more complicated than "Granny's Garden" running on it: it uses an odd
header format to store the load/exec addresses of files, which I never
seem to get right.

> I would imagine though that the files are unaltered in compatibiliy
> with actual Beebs and so just serial link to it.

That's tomorrow's project.  Don't suppose you've got any advice about
soldering 8-pin mini-DIN connectors, have you?  The pins are far too close
together, and don't have any solder buckets (or whatever the indent things
are called) -- they're just spikes.

> A 65x02 file is the same, I would imagine, whichever it's loaded into,
> any emulator or the real thing.

I'll try it and see when I get the lead sorted out.

Cheers,

James.