Date   : Thu, 28 Dec 2000 19:28:48 +0000
From   : Ben Newsam <ben@...>
Subject: Re: VFS: (BBC Video Disk) : Doomsday Project

In message <NDBBLJBHMLDLHLFBCMJMMEPCCBAA.C.J.Thornley@...
uk>, Chris Thornley <C.J.Thornley@...> writes
>Hi,
>       Does anybody have any documation on the VideoDisk Player you could hook 
>up
>to the BBC. I belive it was used for the doomsday project. The player as far
>as Ican rember was a heft beast with BNC A/V Outputs, SCSI, RS232 control
>ports.
>       Does anyone have a rom image of the Video Disk Filesystem rom (I belive
>this could be fitted to a BBC Master) and know if it used specially
>formmatted video disks? or what you could instruct it to do either via the
>scsi or RS232 port?

One of my BBC Masters has a vast (50 way!) ribbon cable sticking out of
the back, and I believe it contains some ROMs to do with video disks.
I'll have a look. Mind you, I still haven't hooked up a serial
connection to a PC so it will be a while before I can e-mail a ROM
image.
-- 
Ben