Date   : Mon, 13 Sep 1999 09:39:15 -0700 (PDT)
From   : FARAZ CHOUDHRY <razzledazzler2@...>
Subject: Re: The full emulator

I see you have your 8-bit machine linked to your Risc's h/d  -  does it
share access with your Risc PC then using ADFS or something?

OK, lets see.....in what way can PCBBC be remotely useful then?  Don't
know Iain if you actually know of the product but I was asking Stuart
the author, questions about loading and saving stuff using the
emulator.  But I'm asking everybody who uses it also hence I'm making
sure everyone gets this message.  Tell me, what am I supposed to do
with BBC files downloaded off the Internet using a PC then?  I'm
confused now  -  how many conversion processes are needed to get the
file read into the emulator, and then read also into the real thing? 
OK, I see I need to serial link it into a real thing.  Basically what's
being said here that the DOS-sed BBC files have none of the load/exec
address info required for the emulator, or the emulator doesn't look
for such information because it's being run on a PC.  C'mon, a modern
PC has megabytes of RAM to allow for as much as poultry 512K memory
mapping, and what happens to the BBC file when put onto a PC?  Then I'm
told BBC disks are too low density to be read into the modern PCBBC? 
No.....

Surely such incompatibilities shouldn't exist if PCBBC is supposed to
be the ultimate BBC emulator for the PC, else I may as well serial link
the darn file into the actual thing and converting it anyway, which I
don't have the means to yet do which is why I want the emulator in the
first place.  I have a reason for wanting to view and run some BBC
files on a PC I have access to.

                                                   F. H. Choudhry
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