Date   : Mon, 17 Aug 2009 10:43:21 +0100
From   : philb@... (Phil Blundell)
Subject: MDFS at September Show

On Mon, 2009-08-17 at 10:24 +0100, Ian Stocks wrote:
> I think your right, any star "*" commands just appears to get thrown at 
> the server. The Comments or help in !AwServer openly admits that it's 
> not expected to work with the ATOM (and possibly Systems). Some commands 
> on !AwServer like *TIME & *DATE sort of work (some sort of buffer size 
> problems show up). *SAVE & *LOAD just say "Not Implemented" when you try 
> to use them.
> 
> Would be nice if there was a fileserver that supported *SAVE & *LOAD for 
> loading games at the show. (Must go and see the AtomMMC guy at the show, 
> can't expect the disc pack to last forever)

I'm pretty sure both the MDFS (and in fact all SJ servers) and the Acorn
server line implement the full command line decoding protocol.  So the
Atom ought to work fine with any of those.

I think there are a few bootleg copies of Acorn level 4 floating around
on the Internet; could try one of those and see if it works any better
than awServer.  Alternatively, if I remember right, awServer is written
in BASIC anyway so it ought to be fairly easy to add the missing code.

p.