Date   : Sat, 17 Jan 2004 15:59:17 GMT
From   : Jon Ripley <beeb@...>
Subject: [Announce] BBC Hard Drive Package Update

I would like to announce recent updates of the BBC Hard Drives package
which contains twenty-two preformatted ADFS hard drives for use with
emulators.

ADFS is capable of supporting up to four 512Mb hard drives giving a
total storage capacity of 2Gb of data.

The hard drive images are provided in the following sizes: 2Mb, 4Mb,
8Mb, 16Mb, 20Mb, 24Mb, 32Mb, 40Mb, 48Mb, 56Mb, 64Mb, 80Mb, 96Mb, 100Mb,
128Mb, 192Mb, 200Mb, 256Mb, 300Mb, 320Mb, 400Mb and 512Mb. In total this
packages contain 2.83Gb (2898Mb) of data compressed to less than 15Kb.

The Package is available in three formats:
 o A RAR archive containing each individual image (as a RAR archive).
 o A ZIP archive containing each individual image (as a ZIP archive).
 o A self extracting archive (for MS Windows) containing each individual
   image (as self extracting archives).

They can be found here at my web site:
http://www.stryker.freeserve.co.uk/8bit/HardDrives/

One feature sadly lacking from many BBC Microcomputer emulators is 1Mhz
bus support with Hard Drive interface emulation, this unfortunately
means that while floppy disk images and audio tape images are usually
supported hard drives are not.

These downloads will be useful for anyone who is using a emulator that
includes a hard drive interface.

I hope that the availablity of ADFS formatted hard drive images will
encourage emulator authors and maintainers to implement the necessary
code to support their use.

Jon R.
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