Date   : Sat, 17 Jan 2004 16:23:46 +0000
From   : Richard Gellman <splodge@...>
Subject: Re: [Announce] BBC Hard Drive Package Update

Hard drive support will be in the next version of BeebEm (due out 
spring-ish).

Dave Moore (stairwaytohell.com) has kindly offered hosting space. I'm 
currently finalising the details, but there should be *something* soon.

-- Richard Gellman

(P.S. Yes, I *PROMISE* I'll sort out the speed/timing issues)


Jon Ripley wrote:

>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.
>  
>