Date   : Thu, 30 Oct 2003 20:15:18 -0000
From   : "Darren T. Brown" <darren@...>
Subject: Treat Me Like A Fool! writing images to a drive

I am trying to work out how to write the images to a 5 1/4 drive too. Nobody
seems to know.

The drive is now in my PC (big ugly think in my Nokia type case! lol) I can
format the drive to BBC format- and copy stuff from my PC onto the floppy.
But how do we make a disk image file into a real disk?

Once I have done this bit succesfully I'll do a full breakdown of
instructions

Darren


----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Andrew Hancock" <Andrew.Hancock@...>
To: <bbc-micro@...>
Sent: Thursday, October 30, 2003 5:59 PM
Subject: RE: [BBC-Micro] Treat Me Like A Fool!


> Greetings Newbie!
>
> One method would be to extract the files from the Disc Image using
> BBCIM.exe, and then use a software program called XFER to transfer the
> programs to the Master. You will need to build a serial cable to do this.
>
> Unless you have a 5.25" floppy drive in a PC to write the image to. Does
you
> Master have a 3.5" floppy drive?
>
> Regards
>
> Andrew
>
>
>
>
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: John Martland [mailto:johnmartland@...]
> > Sent: 30 October 2003 17:15
> > To: bbc-micro@...
> > Subject: [BBC-Micro] Treat Me Like A Fool!
> >
> > Hi Everyone!
> >
> > I'm new to the forum but have come here because at the age of 35 I'm
about
> > to relive my youth and desperately need your help!
> >
> > I grew up using a Model B in the mid-80s.  Thats long since gone and so
> > I've
> > just bought a standard Master system because I basically want to replay
> > some
> > of the games that kept me up till all hours many moons ago.
> >
> > Games like Zalaga, Starship Command and of course Elite immediately
spring
> > to mind but I'm rambling!
> >
> > I found a few sites from which you can download virtually the entire BBC
> > catalogue of games.  Sites like 'The BBC Lives'
> > (www.nvg.ntnu.no/bbc/index.php3), 'The BBC Games Archive'
> > (www.beebgames.com) and 'Stairway to Hell' (www.stairwaytohell.com).
> >
> > Unfortunately though, I am to be considered a fool when it comes to the
> > manner in which you would successfully download the games you want.  I'm
> > viewing these sites via a 1mb Broadband connection on an Inspiron 8200
> > Dell
> > Lap Top (powerful as you like) and have no idea how I download them to
the
> > Lap Top and then transfer them on to 5.25" floppy in such a way that
they
> > will be 'boot'able on the Master.  I hope I'm making sense here... I
> > basically need to be guided right through the process of taking a game
> > from
> > a web site to my Lap Top and then from the Lap Top to my BBC in a
> > 'boot'able
> > format on 5.25" disc.
> >
> > Can anyone please help me... ideally by providing a step by step fools
> > guide
> > to successfully getting 'say' Elite up and running on my Master?
> >
> > Any help would be appreciated and please dont think you are teaching me
to
> > suck eggs.... treat me like a fool and show me the way!
> >
> > Cheers
> > John
> >
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