Date   : Tue, 16 Nov 2010 11:37:39 +1100
From   : awilliams@... (Alan Williams)
Subject: Beeb Networking - and another thing

Recently I successfully attached a 5.25 drive to a pc and made BBC DFS
and ADFS floppy discs with this arrangement.  Now I have a pile of
images and I started to think about what to do with them.  Firstly I am
hacking some hasty php which will enable on line browsing and viewing
and downloading of the content.  It will let you view the files as hex
dumps, basic, or text at the moment.  Though the content I have tends to
lend its self to View and WordPac viewers too.  I intend it to read DFS,
ADFS, L2 and L3 images.

Secondly I was thinking of writing a UDP sector server and using this in
conjunction with Phil's Econet to Ethernet bridge.  

It may then be possible to get the BEEB to read from remotely stored
disk images.  This would need some hacking of the DFS to redirect the
sector read requests, in much the same way as the goMMC does.

This doesn't quite give the remote public fileserver but it might be a
start.  I also contemplated running !awServer under BRANDY on
Linux/FreeBSD etc but I haven't contemplated that enough to work out how
barking mad that might be.  I suspect that the alternative, AUND would
be found to support only the FS functions required by Archimedes NetFS
and not by BBC NFS.

I started to think that a web site you could join and upload your disk
images either as private or public would be a interesting extension of
the stuff I am doing.   I don't have the time for that though.

Ok back to work now.

Alan