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.
Quote from: Bryce on 09:29, 12 September 14
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.
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.
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 (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)
It's really awesome that you keep improving BB4CPC.
Hats off to you.
Quote from: cngsoft on 11:44, 12 September 14
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 (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.
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...