Date   : Wed, 14 Nov 2001 10:49:23 -0000
From   : Daniel Luton <DLuton@...>
Subject: Re: Archimedes help...

I didn't know one of the emulators came with a tool to do this.  I will take
a look (I guess it's either Archie or Red Squirrel, I've not come across any
others).

Cheers for the help, and by the way, what a fab machine the A3000 is!

Dan

-----Original Message-----
From: Thomas Harte [mailto:t.harte@...]
Sent: 13 November 2001 15:44
To: List, BBC
Subject: Re: [BBC-Micro] Archimedes help...


>  ... and was wondering if anyone knows of a way to transfer ADF disk
>  images from the PC back to original Archimedes disks?

The traditional answer, if you have access to DOS (or one of the stupid
Windows releases - 95/98/ME), is to use FDC. You are lucky, since ADF images
are of ADFS discs, which are MFM (double density) encoded and can certainly
be written by any PC, OS allowing, you can buy today.

If you're in Linux it should be possible to set up a /dev entry and just cp
to that, by means of the fdutils package. However, don't ask me for details,
because the documentation doesn't seem to match even slightly with the
package!

If you have one of the real 32bit Windows releases (XP, 2000, NT) then
you're probably stuck for now. But I'm sure someone, somewhere is working on
it!

Actually, one of the Arc emulators comes with a tool for disc->ADF and vice
versa which gets rid of all the confusing FDC stuff, doesn't it?

-Thomas





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