Date   : Fri, 09 Mar 2001 01:28:32 -0800 (PST)
From   : "F. Haroon" <haroonpd@...>
Subject: Re: Loading files in pcBBC

Can someone please tell me if there's now a quicker
way to get BBC disk images to run on PCBBC?  Also, is
there any way at all to transfer the images into real
BBC format on DFS disks?

Is there a latest version of BBC Explorer?  Please
help.

Fiaz.


--- Mark Usher <mu.list@...> wrote:
> > With some help from the folk in comp.sys.acorn
> I've managed finally to
> > get hold of the CRASH program. The file I have is
> the tokenised BASIC
> > file (ie. no line numbers or keywords).
> >
> > Is there a way to "import" this onto a pcBBC disk
> image? (Or an
> > alternative way to load it from a file directly
> onto the emulated
> > machine so that I can save it?)
> 
> You would make a .inf file for the program. This
> would be basically a text
> file name_of_file.inf containing $.CRASH FF8023
> Use BBC explorer to add this to a disc image and
> load into pcBBC
> 
> or
> 
> There is a program on the BBC lives web site that
> you can use to convert a
> tokenised basic file into ASCII. You can then create
> a .inf file for the
> ASCII file, use BBC explorer to add it to a disc
> image, load the disc image
> into pcBBC and *EXEC the ASCII file. Then save it
> back as a BASIC file.
> :-)
> 
> Mark
> 
> 


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