Date   : Sat, 12 Nov 2005 13:29:02 +0000
From   : Jules Richardson <julesrichardsonuk@...>
Subject: Re: Transferring hundreds of floppies to a PC

Gary Partis wrote:
> I have many PCs of various specs, but non want to read my old floppies.
> Also, my Master has died (does work for more then 20 seconds at a time)....

20 seconds is a long time - which presumably implies it's a chip that's 
failing by overheating, rather than a voltage problem that's causing the 
PSU to shut down (that would happen in < 1 sec I would expect)

Check for the tops of any chips getting obviously hot. RAM would be an 
obvious culprit - although I've never heard of it shutting a machine 
down, just causing system crashes; depends what you mean by it dying 
after 20 secs!

You may find one chip that's obviously running way too hot and is a 
likely fault...

> If anyone has either a BBC micro with a 1770 FDC and ADFS; or a Master for
> sale; for a reasonable price; just let me know coz I want one!

Where are you? You may find someone local and so avoid all that hassle 
of postage!

> As an aside, I must thank the guys who wrote the BeebEm Win32 app. It is
> fantastic! It even has 65c02 copro support (most my titles were developed
> using the copro!) ;-)

I haven't tried the copro support (although a back-burner project would 
be adding other copros at some point - I'd love to be able to emulate an 
ACW, or a Torch 7xx series say). But the core emulator side of it is 
fantasitc (I got into trying to complete Repton 2 after all these years 
and found at the end I'd missed one piece of earth somewhere grrrr! :)

cheers

Jules