Date   : Thu, 06 Oct 2005 22:12:49 +0100
From   : Sprow <info@...>
Subject: Re: Real Machine or Emulator

On 06 Oct, Jules Richardson <julesrichardsonuk@...> wrote:
> A. J. Davis wrote:
> > Get a 3.5" Commodore Amiga external disk drive from Ebay.  You can get 
> > one for around a fiver.  It's then quite a simple process to modify it 
> > to work on the BBC (instructions on my site)
> > 
> > Then you can use the ONMIDISK or OMNIFLOP programs on the PC to write 
> > disk images back to 'real' floppies.  The benefit of a 3.5" drive is 
> > that there are so many on Ebay in very good condition for cheap prices 
> > because there were plenty of Amigas around.  There's also a very good 
> > chance you already have a 3.5" drive in your PC to write the disks.
>
> Presumably that still requires your PC to be able to write FM format 
> floppies?

The purists can do it the other way round by getting the beeb to write the
PC format instead
 http://www.sprow.co.uk/bbc/dosfs.htm
has details.

I got a 32Mbyte MMC from ebay this week for £2.99 including postage, which
should keep my GoMMC quiet for a bit!

Unrelated, I occasionally get emails from "bbcmicro@...", is this
an alias for the correct address with the hyphen in it?
Sprow.