Date   : Mon, 27 Apr 2009 11:57:34 +0100
From   : alun.rhys.jones@... (Rhys Jones)
Subject:  Domesday Preservation

2009/4/27 Joel Rowbottom <joel@...>:
 > Hi all --
 >
 > I've dropped my brother a rather extensive mail outlining the  
situation,
 > and I'll relay whatever he comes back with.
 >
 > On another note, has anyone else got a dump of the data in separate  
files
 > from Community N & S? If so, please can you drop me a line since I  
see
 > little point in me duplicating this part of the project, and might  
as well
 > just get on with doing the photos.
 >
 > Cheers
 >
 >
 > j

What a coincidence - having acquired a working domesday setup, I've  
just finished dumping off the data from the Community N & S disks, and  
the National also, as an easter project of sorts. Ian's site was  
invaluable in getting the kit up and working!

The setup was to follow the Camileon process of hooking up the LV-ROM  
to a Linux box via scsi, and to parse the data to save each file from  
the disks. I've also written the frame grabbing serial code to loop  
through the images one by one, with each frame being grabbed and saved  
with the index number. The images from the N&S disks and one side of  
the National have been grabbed this way, but the quality is only so- 
so, but could be down to the capture card used.

The next step was to work on the emulator - the plan being on  
compiling Beebem to flash, and adding an emulation layer for the LV- 
ROM, to give a domesday emulator in a browser. I've reached Beebem  
compiling with Adobe's Alchemy, but not linking with the flash SDL  
library yet.

The disk data is approx. 200Mb per side, and the images are around  
800k each.

Hwyl,
Rhys