Date   : Fri, 14 Sep 2001 08:41:54 +0100
From   : Daniel Luton <DLuton@...>
Subject: Re: Transfering data from the disk images to the real

There is a way but it involves using older 5.25" disks in the PC, I believe.
Personally, I would recommend using XFERc with a custom-made serial link
cable from PC->BBC, and you can transfer the disc images (after you've
extracted the files, I use BBC Explorer to do this) directly to the BBC's
own drive, where you can boot them like normal using SHIFT+BREAK.

It took me about an hour to make the cable, and it worked first time (even
though the wires on the BBC end are just shoved into the RS423 port!).
Failing this, you could use a cassette port cable wired to a CD player, and
extract UEF tape images to WAV files, burn them to audio CD, then load them
like you would if they were real tapes (they take forever to load though!).

That's what I would suggest anyway.

Dan

-----Original Message-----
From: Victor Rozanov [mailto:vrozanov@...]
Sent: 13 September 2001 21:43
To: bbc-micro@...
Subject: [BBC-Micro] Transfering data from the disk images to the real
floppy question.


Hello all,

I might be having very stupid question.
May be it has been answered a hundred times already.
But could you please kindly tell me is there any program
around which can write the BBC disks on the PC disk drive
from the common BBC disk images? I want to get the real
disks on my real BBC but I want to download the BBC software
from the internet archives.  Also I want to know if it is possible
to get the 3" floppy drive working with the BBC and will it work 
with the software from my first question. I would really appreciate 
for any information related to these  issues.

Unfortunatelly I can not subscribe to this mailing list ( I have mail
undeleverable 
message from majordomo@...)  so could you please reply to my e-mail
address vrozanov@... 

Thank you in advance.

Best Regards.

Victor.