16 Mar
2012
16 Mar
'12
9:23 p.m.
Actually correction...this is how I made my BBC disks from disk images.
Reading disks are easier and (from memory) all three options mentioned have
worked for me.
Terry (Tez)
On Sat, Mar 17, 2012 at 10:02 AM, Terry Stewart <terry at webweavers.co.nz>wrote:
Here is how I read my BBC disks
http://www.classic-computers.org.nz/blog/2011-12-31-disk-from-images-bbc.htm
Terry (Tez)
On Sat, Mar 17, 2012 at 10:20 AM, Dave Dunfield <dave12 at dunfield.com>wrote:
On another
mailing list that I am on, someone was expressing the
desire to retrieve data off some old BBC Micro floppies to see if it
would be possible to get some of the software running on a Raspberry
Pi. They do not own any machine with a floppy interface.
My BBC's don't have drives, and I don't have any software disks - so I
don't have a way to test this ... but ...
According to the all-knowing google, the BBC disk system used an
Intel 8271 and later an WD 177x controller - the 8271 does IBM 3740,
and the WD is certainly capable of it (so hopefully they kept the
format the same).
So it seems to me that there is a reasonable chance that these disks
could be read with ImageDisk - granted he'll need a DOS/floppy capable
PC (or a friend with one), but it might be worth a try.
Dave
PS: If anyone does read BBC disks, I'd love copies for the archive.
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