Date   : Wed, 05 Jul 2000 01:16:34 MET
From   : "A.J.Wijma" <A.J.Wijma@...>
Subject: Re: Re BBC serial filing system

Hello members of the bbc-mailinglist,

A couple of weeks ago I subscribed myself at this list. I'm a 
student in the Netherlands and I own a BBC. It's a plain BBC B, 
but I added some SRAM as semi-sideways ram to load rom-
images into it.

For lacking a disk-system and the difficulties to get one, I once 
decided to write a userport filingsystem ROM. It's not complete, 
but it's able to load and save programs at 'high'-speed. My 386dx33 
and BBC are able to achieve a transferrate of 12 kilobytes/s (that 
as fast as a single density floppy disk).

The programs are written in BBC basic/assembler and Borland 
Pascal 7. It can be downloaded at

http://www.cpedu.rug.nl/~n0909270

The file is called USER.ZIP, and contains the sources, 
executables, the game hopper and my routines to put it in SRAM. 
It's lacking (good) documentation. Questions will be answered.

Take your advantage of it (or not) and if you try it, let me know what 
you think of it,

Greetings, Ate