Date   : Sat, 17 Jun 2000 14:43:34 +0100
From   : Mike Tomlinson <mike@...>
Subject: Transferring BBC floppies to PC

I received the following email recently - can we cover what is and isn't
possible in terms of getting BBC discs transferred to a PC for this chap
(he is subscribed to this list)?

In particular, (for me), is there any software available for the Beeb
which will read a disc sector-by-sector and squirt it down to a PC,
creating an image file over a serial link?

Sorry to cover old ground again.

>I was wondering if you could
>spare a moment to comment on a news post you wrote a while back.
>
>QUOTE
>>Do they enable one to read BBC-B floppy disc files using a PC floppy
>>disc drive,
>
>No, the PC floppy controller has difficulty reading the single density discs
>produced by the Beeb. It can be done by creating an 'image file' using
>another application, then pointing the BBC emulator at the image file.
>
>> or to connect a Beeb floppy drive to a PC port?
>
>I've done this successfully when my 1.2Mb drive wouldn't read some BBC
>discs.
>
>Mike Tomlinson
>/QUOTE
>
>Specifically - do I understand correctly - that you can connect a BBC floppy
>drive *directly* to a PC's floppy disk controller - and it works?
>
>Presumably you then need some software in order for the PC to be able to
>understand the contents of the disks?
>
>We're (my school, that is) is anxious to be able to run some of it's BBC
>software on PC's via emulation - but the problem we've got is transfering
>the data from the floppies onto a PC.

-- 
Mike Tomlinson
mike@...