Date   : Mon, 17 Aug 2009 14:54:06 +0100
From   : mfirth@... (Michael Firth)
Subject: MDFS at September Show

Phil Blundell wrote:
> 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.
>
>   
I guess adding the code would be easy for someone that it proficient in 
RiscOS programming, just understanding the amount of BASIC that's 
presumably there I expect would be rather challenging for a novice.

I'm planning to have my L4 A3020 at the show, and can bring a Level 3 CF 
card for use with a Beeb / CoPro.

Presumably Level 2 isn't more likely to work than level 3? I could 
certainly find and bring a copy of Level 2, but to get it doing anything 
useful will presumably require a disk drive (unless its calls are legal 
enough to be fooled into thinking the DataCentre is a disk drive)

Regards

Michael