Date   : Sun, 18 Feb 2001 08:38:14 +0000
From   : Mike Tomlinson <mike@...>
Subject: Re: 62-File disc images

In article <INEBINJGPKFAHFODGMHCMEMGCAAA.r.gellman@...>,
Richard Gellman <r.gellman@...> writes

>Does anyone know how the smeg I can copy the files from a Watford 62-file
>disc onto another 1770 DFS/ADFS compatible disc?
>(BeebEm now has ADFS Disc support at present, but is currently unreleased).
>
>I have a disc image Acrnsoft1.ssd which is a Watford 62-file DFS disc, and
>only reads 31 of 47 files under the Acorn 1770 DFS.

It can be a pain in the bum :)

BBC Explorer (on nvg.org) will read Watfraud 62-file discs.  Tom Seddon
also had a utility, DCONV, for copying files, which would recognise
Watford discs.

Alternatively, fire up BBC Explorer, and break up the 62-file disc image
into two 31-files - move some files from drive 0 to drive 1.
(tedious...)

When I used a real Beeb w/Watford DFS and I had requests for, um,
backups of my game discs, I used a dual drive and copied the B.* (basic
files) and M.* (machine code files) to the other side of the destination
disc and altered the menu/loader program to load the game code from that
side instead.  Thus side 0 of the disc would contain $.*, and side 1
would contain B.* and M.*.  This worked fairly well but was still a
pain.

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