Date   : Sun, 07 Dec 1997 12:56:54 GMT
From   : Chris Thornley <osu036@...>
Subject: Re: Amcom DFS S/N A7820

The Amcom dfs, are you runing from rom or disc image? If your runing it from
disc image close the write enable 
switch on your swr unit as it writes back to inself disabling functions as
it sees it to be a copy. The major 
incompatibillity with this dfs is that you can not use coloured tittles on
acorn dfs disc as the dfs uses a upper 
bit in the tittle string to signify runnig in extended mode so anything out
of the ordinary in a disc tittle willl 
confuse it. Is page different in this dfs? I belive reves does not run with
this dfs for that reason.

All the links on the keyboard do is change the startup mode, select auto
boot, and the speed of the disc drive in 
(ms) to cope with newer faster models.

On Sat, 06 Dec 1997 19:39:49 +0000 Crispin Boylan wrote:

> From: Crispin Boylan <viewtronix@...>
> Date: Sat, 06 Dec 1997 19:39:49 +0000
> Subject: [BBC-Micro] Amcom DFS S/N A7820
> To: bbc-micro@...
> 
> HI!
> I have the Amcom DFS S/N A7820, which I recently acquired, but I cannot get
> it to be compatible with my old Acorn DFS stuff!
> 
> I know that this is a compatible dfs, as long as you don't run it in 62
> file Amcom mode, but I still cannot get it to work with commands like *RUN
> and */ which I know it should be able to do!
> 
> I don't have a manual, so can someone please offer me one, or help with it!
> I've heard you have to change some links on the keyboard, so I've installed
> a DIL package onto the holes for the links, can someone please tell me what
> to set these to, at the moment they're all off.
> 
> Thanks!
> 
> 
> See ya!
> Crispin Boylan
> viewtronix@...
> http://easyweb.easynet.co.uk/~viewtronix
> "If there's a bright centre to the universe, we're on the planet that is
> furthest from it" - Luke Skywalker
> 

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