Date   : Tue, 14 Apr 2009 14:46:47 +0100
From   : zeem.uk@... (Alex Taylor)
Subject: Writing BBC Disc Images on Linux

2009/4/14 Jules Richardson <jules.richardson99@...>:

> (Hmm, what CP/M release was it, though? Mention of '720K floppies' implies
> 3.5" media, which presumably puts it at something late in the CP/M game -

Correct! An Amstrad PCW running CP/M Plus.

> maybe they were running a 'bastardised' CP/M which no longer used the 128 byte
> sector size at all)

I believe that the disk format's almost the same as MS-DOS. There's
even a utility called MSODBALL which does some magical trickery to
allow a disk to be converted between CP/M and MS-DOS to allow file
transfer.

-- 
Alex Taylor