Date   : Wed, 22 Feb 2006 14:51:10 +0000 (GMT)
From   : "F. Haroon" <haroonnet2002@...>
Subject: Re: Terminal Emulator/Arcade Problems

I also would please like to have a look at this comms firmware LPDFS -
I understand it must be the best one for the BBC around, unless there's
any better.

I certainly would be interested to know which one works over IP
addresses...

Thanks,
Fiaz.

--- Mike Tomlinson <mike@...> wrote:

> In article <060221215509@...>, Jonathan Graham Harston
> <jgh@...> writes
> 
> >Me please! What is it? LePidoptra DFS? :)
> 
> Lancashire Poly Disk(?) Filing System I think.  It's a ROM with five
> different terminal emulators, which allowed it to be used with the
> poly's PR1ME mainframe.  You chose the appropriate terminal emulation
> for the software you wanted to use.  The poly had many terminals
> (many
> dozen?) connected to the PR1ME through a Gandalf multiplexer, and the
> BBCs were useful as a cheap alternative to the high-priced single-
> emulation terminals.
> 
> The nice thing about it was *LPDFS, a filing system which allowed you
> to
> load and save files over the serial port. It was rather slow (I think
> the baud rate used was 4800), but it was popular for playing games at
> lunchtime.  
> 
> I don't remember how files were loaded after entering *LPDFS
> (*BBCGAMES
> comes to mind), but do remember that the ROM made a soft bleep from
> the
> speaker after loading so many bytes (1k?) via the serial port to let
> the
> user know things were working and the machine hadn't hung.
> 
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