Date : Mon, 08 Sep 1997 17:49:49 +0200
From : Robert Schmidt <rsc@...>
Subject: Re: Beebdos
chris jubb wrote:
>
> Dear Conor & Robert,
> I appreciate the efforts that you have made to keep the world of the
> BBC
> Micro alive.
> I used to use Beebdos in the late 80's. I never got it to work very
> well but
> always thought it was my computer illiteracy that was at fault. Now
> I've
> grown older and my computer confidence has increased but I still find
> Beebdos, as found on ' The BBC lives' website a no-goer. I've tried
> different PC's and different disks from a BBC but no joy. All of the
> disk
> drives on the PC's are the 1.2Mb variety.
> I still use a BBC for patient testing at Moorefields Eye Hospital and
> need
> to transfer files regularly to a PC. Until now I've transferred via an
> Archimedes with a 5.25" drive attachment but now I'm loosing control
> of that
> drive.
> I would be grateful if you could offer any advice.
> Yours sincerely
> Chris Jubb
(I've sent a copy of this reply to the BBC micro mailing list, which you
might like to join.)
You can find information about transferring files between a BBC and a PC
at http://www.nvg.ntnu.no/bbc/xfer-conv.html .
Using Mark de Weger's XFer seems to be the currently easiest, most
foolproof way to transfer files, but you will have to make a serial
communications cable. (I think Wouter Scholten is also developing a
similar program.)
Reading BBC disks on a PC seems to be quite unreliable, because so few
PCs are still in existance with the legacy floppy controller required to
read the low density data. I don't know how Beebdos compares to Wouter
Scholten's hacked FDC - maybe you could try using FDC on your BBC disks
to produce disk images, then use his bbcim program to split them up into
individual files.
--
Robert Schmidt <rsc@... >
Software Developer / Vingmed Sound tel +47 67124237 fax +47 67124355
Private tel +47 22606076 WWW http://www.nvg.unit.no/~rsc
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