Date   : Mon, 25 Sep 2006 23:25:28 +0100
From   : jgh@... (Jonathan Graham Harston)
Subject: Re: how do I tranfer rom image to physical disc

>Message-ID: <BAY105-F36671B2E8E9BC94183B3DAD1260@...>
 
"salahdin mahmud" <tbkc@...> wrote:
> I want to do the above in Win XP, using omniflop. Then blow the image on to
 
You can't do that with OmniFlop. OmniFlop lets you read and write
*disk*images* to and from disks.
 
To transfer a *file* (regardless of what it is) to a physical disk
you need a disk filing system, or a disk filer, or a disk image
manipulation application which will give you a *disk* image that
you can write to a physical disk.
 
Have a look for things like PCDFS, BBC Explorer, DFS Explorer,
etc.
 
> I added the extension .ssd to the image eg word.ssd and loaded this in
> beebem as a preliminary test. typed *cat and the emulator crashed.
 
I'm not surprised if you tried to DFS CAT a ROM image!
 
Well, actually I *am* surprised if the emulator crashed. I would
expect a nonsense display, something like:
 
LesWOrfD (9A)
Drive 0       Option 1 (LOAD)
Dir. :0.$     Lib. :0.$
 
7.khkkas      A.crno    L
A.rd ql   L   k.8* laX
 
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