18 Jan
2003
18 Jan
'03
9:09 p.m.
Pete,
Well, someone else has offered to copy Disc 1 for me.
I've also found a
few other people who have ARM Evaluation Systems, so once I get a good Disc
1, I'll put the set of six on my website (and if anyone from any of the
Beeb sites wants to make a copy, that's fine by me). Any suggestions as to
format to use for the images?
I expect you know far more about this than I do! "Pete's own undocumented image
format" is probably not a good idea :-)
Other than that anything that has some supporting documentation available would
seem sensible - it'll always be possible to convert between formats then.
I get lost trying to remember all the issues regarding writing to discs in
different machines (wish there was a website that collected all that
information together, for various platforms) - I can't for the life of me
remember if it's possible to write to beeb discs with a PC, which would
probably be my preferred option. My BBC Master can emulate an XT so maybe
there's something on that side that can take a PC format 5.25 disc and write
out to a beeb disc. I have no idea...
I'm more concerned about the disc set being archived somewhere than delving in
and playing around with my ARM unit now though - same goes for other systems.
I've already got machines that are non-runners at present because the software
has gone and is unobtainable :-(
so 50 or 100 seem likely
numbers for the quantity of ARM Development Kits made to fit Beebs.
hmm, mine was pretty late then if they did only make 50. Mine came from Kent
uni; I have no idea what it was doing there, but the same place sourced quite a
few bits of beeb equipment. Maybe they did some official product testing or
something.
cheers
Jules
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