Copying BB4CPC.

[Bryce]

Hi all,
     I'm trying to copy BB4CPC from a HxC to a real 3in drive on my CPC+. However, using Disckit3 it gets as far as track 10 and then gives me an error message "media has been changed" or something like that. The HFE file works fine, so I assume it's just a strange format. Can anyone recommend a method to copy BB4CPC to a real 3in disk?

Bryce.

[CraigsBar]

Hi all,
     I'm trying to copy BB4CPC from a HxC to a real 3in drive on my CPC+. However, using Disckit3 it gets as far as track 10 and then gives me an error message "media has been changed" or something like that. The HFE file works fine, so I assume it's just a strange format. Can anyone recommend a method to copy BB4CPC to a real 3in disk?

Bryce.

I'll post you one but xexor works on it.

[Bryce]

Actually I'm making it to post to someone else. I'll give it a go with xexor myself first. Thanks for the tip. I have Discology too, does it work with that?

Bryce.

[cngsoft]

BB4CPC isn't really protected, you can manually copy the files DISC and BB4CPC.BAS (hidden) inside it; in fact you only need BB4CPC.BAS to run the game, it's bootable on its own; DISC simply shows the loading screen and runs BB4CPC.BAS. The DSK looks nonstandard because I wrote a tool to clip the unused tracks off the resulting DSK file, that's all.

Please use the DSK at http://cngsoft.no-ip.org/bb4cpc.zip because the newest version is always there (June 2014 at the moment).

^{(that being said, why anyone would use DISCKIT3 when there are generic file and disc copiers in less than 5 kB escapes me)}

[mr_lou]

It's really awesome that you keep improving BB4CPC.

Hats off to you.

[Bryce]

BB4CPC isn't really protected, you can manually copy the files DISC and BB4CPC.BAS (hidden) inside it; in fact you only need BB4CPC.BAS to run the game, it's bootable on its own; DISC simply shows the loading screen and runs BB4CPC.BAS. The DSK looks nonstandard because I wrote a tool to clip the unused tracks off the resulting DSK file, that's all.

Please use the DSK at http://cngsoft.no-ip.org/bb4cpc.zip because the newest version is always there (June 2014 at the moment).

^{(that being said, why anyone would use DISCKIT3 when there are generic file and disc copiers in less than 5 kB escapes me)}

Cool, I'll give that a go then. The reason I use Disckit 3 is because I regularly boot to CPM when using the CPC, so the disc was there under my nose when I wanted to copy/format or whatever. Still never understand why AmsDOS didn't include a format command.

Bryce.

[pelrun]

Disckit 3 doesn't understand any disc that isn't a perfect DATA, SYSTEM or VENDOR format. It's not a smart tool, but then again it was written before we really had any sort of funny-format discs around.


The lack of an AMSDOS format command always seemed a little weird to me, but I wonder if part of the reason was to make it hard to accidentally wipe a disc by accident. Just having a formatting tool on one of my discs backfired when my little sister ran it not knowing what 'format this disc? (Y/N)' meant...