Date   : Fri, 04 Jun 1999 00:53:46 +0100
From   : "Gary Davies" <gary.davies@...>
Subject: Re: BBC software to grab DFS disc images

----- Original Message -----
From: Steven Flintham <steven@...>
To: <bbc-micro@...>
Sent: 02 June 1999 22:17
Subject: [BBC-Micro] BBC software to grab DFS disc images


> b) Has anyone got a program already written which will run on a BBC
> and create a file on one drive which is the disc image of a disc in
> another drive? It doesn't have to be anything fancy, but if I don't
> have to write it myself I stand less chance of getting the format
> wrong and having to munge all my images to make them compatible with
> emulators later on.

Hi Steven!

I've got a program which I did myself (12 lines of BASIC and nothing
spectacular) which I've been using to do a similar job, it simply reads the
tracks from one side of a DFS disk, writing them to a file on another drive,
then I Xfer the file onto the PC which can be read by BeebEm. Obviously you
can't save an entire 80 track disk to a file but I've yet to come across a
disk which was entirely full so no problem. It uses *SECTLOAD which is
supplied by a ROM called MEGAROM, but if you've got sideways RAM should be
no problem... To do double sided disks I simply make two images then create
a double sided image within BeebEm and BACKUP the single sided images to the
correct side etc...

Anyway, if you can't find anything better, let me know!...
Regards,
Gary...