Date   : Thu, 09 Sep 1999 07:40:10 -0700 (PDT)
From   : FARAZ CHOUDHRY <razzledazzler2@...>
Subject: Re: The full emulator

> You can use BBC Explorer to create a disk image from
> a PC file:
> http://www.nvg.ntnu.no/bbc/util/BBCExplorer-2.zip
> Alternatively use my DISKMGR program included with
> the full package.

I would have thought that all BBC files are the same whichever it loads
into, the real thing or the emulator.  Otherwise why is an emulator an
emulator if it cannot load/save BBC files like the real thing?  Why the
need for conversion to and from actual BBC file to PC BBC file?

> >Can the program read off PC disks as well as BBC
> ones?
> No, BBC disks are in a proprietary Acorn format, PC
> disks use FAT.

I suppose I would need to serial link a downloaded PC file into a Beeb
then put into BBC disk, yeah?  Anyway, my friend has connected a 5.25"
drive to a PC and I have PCBBC installed on his computer.  Now I hope
to run some "raw" BBC programs on the emulator from my DFS formatted
disks.  Isn't it as simple as that?

                                    F. H. Choudhry
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