Date : Thu, 23 Jan 2003 04:52:04 +0000
From : jgh@... (Jonathan Graham Harston)
Subject: Re: ARM Evaluation Kit and disk images
pete@... wrote:
> six) and have been promised a copy of the one that's corrupt. To make
> these available to others who might want them in the future, I was thinking
> of putting the disk images on a website. What's a good format to use? It
> has to be something that preserves the file attributes (load address, exec
> address, etc). The only thing I can think of is a spark archive, but that
> can't be handled by a BBC Micro (as far as I know). And an Archimedes or
> RISC PC doesn't usually have a 5.25" drive. Any suggestions?
Uncompressed ZIP archive of the files themselves, then they can be
extracted on a BBC with
BBCZip (http://www.mdfs.net/Apps/Archivers/BBCZip/),
Archiver (http://www.mdfs.net/Apps/Archivers/Archiver) or
Sprow's UnZip (http://www.sprow.co.uk/).
Create it with an archiver on any Acorn platform, ensuring the archives
are uncompressed, with, eg BBCZip, Archiver, Spark, InfoZip, etc...
So far, I don't know of any ZIPper that can deal with compressed archives
on the 8-bit platform, but all the many 8-bit ZIPpers and UNZIPpers can
deal with uncompressed archives.
> We've been trying to guess how many were made. So far, all the serial
> numbers we know of are below 1000050. Does anyone else want to own up to
> owning one?
I would love to have one if anyone's got one spare. I've got a spare 32016
copro.
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