Date   : Mon, 29 Aug 2005 15:46:03 +0100
From   : "Ian Wolstenholme" <BBCMailingList@...>
Subject: Re: BBC B+ ADFS

Well, well, well! Would you believe it was the drive after all!!

I am most surprised because it is the drive I always use with the
Domesday Machine when that is up and running and I have never had
any problems with it.  Clearly I hadn't used it with ADFS before.  It
must be a very low density drive which can't cope with ADFS but works
with DFS.

I changed the drive and it even works with DFS 2.0j.

The reason I was trying ADFS in the B+ was because I wanted to have
a go at running all my favourite BBC games which don't work on the
Master.  I have them on an ADFS compilation disc and wanted to see
how they coped with the B+.

In the end it was a pointless exercise because all the games crashed
as soon as they loaded, no doubt due to the increase in PAGE caused
by having ADFS in there!

However I did manage to find my DFS disc with some of the games on
and I was quite surprised to find that most of them didn't work on the
B+, ie. Banjax, Jetpac, Boffin, Zalaga.  Repton 2 ran for a bit but then
seemed to go to "Bad program" every time the monster came out of the
egg!

Best wishes,


Ian

----- Original Message -----
From: Dom Wright
To:  <bbc-micro@...>
Sent: Mon, 29 Aug 2005 05:59:35 +0100
Subject: Re: [BBC-Micro] BBC B+ ADFS

"Ian Wolstenholme" wrote:To: <bbc-micro@...>

> Which version of ADFS should I use in a BBC B+?  I have tried 1.30
> but it doesn't seem to work.
> 
> The B+ I am using is an ANB53 model with 1770 disc interface and
> DFS 2.0j.
 
My B+ works fine with DFS 2.26 and ADFS 1.30.

Dom