Date   : Sun, 05 Oct 2003 08:15:00 -0700
From   : Angus Duggan <angus.duggan@...>
Subject: archiving floppies and ROMs

Jules Richardson writes:
>Hiya,
>
>What other utilities (other than FDC and Xfer) are there available to save BBC
>floppy data onto a PC? FDC doesn't appear to like any of my PC disk hardware
>unfortunately, and looking at the Xfer documentation it implies that it
>transfers individual files rather than a whole disk image - ideally I'd rather
>back up an entire self-contained disk image than have to worry about lots of
>seperate files.

XFer can transfer whole disc images, but only single/double sided Acorn
format discs, on machines that support 8271 controllers or controller
emulation.

>Additionally, it'd be nice to be able to be able to back up ROMs from the BBC
>to a PC via a serial link - is there any software around to do this?

Save them to disc, then transfer them...

a.