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Title: Transferring better than life 1 to physical Disk?
Post by: tjohnson on 13:07, 10 February 20
Hi all , I offered to help transfer some software to physical disk for ComSoft6128 but have been unable to copy "Better than Life 1".  The first disk seems to have a weird structure after track 7 and the 2nd disk had the same odd format throughout.


Does anyone have any idea how to do this or is it a lost cause?


Cheers Trevor
Title: Re: Transferring better than life 1 to physical Disk?
Post by: Bryce on 18:29, 10 February 20
Never tried, but I might have some time tomorrow and I'll try it out.

Bryce.
Title: Re: Transferring better than life 1 to physical Disk?
Post by: Bryce on 14:26, 11 February 20
Nope, whatever I try gives me an error on track 7.

Bryce.
Title: Re: Transferring better than life 1 to physical Disk?
Post by: ComSoft6128 on 14:49, 11 February 20
Thanks for trying, appreciated. :(
Title: Re: Transferring better than life 1 to physical Disk?
Post by: Bryce on 14:57, 11 February 20
If you have a HxC, the hfe files on CPCRulez work fine. You just can't copy them to real media.

Bryce.
Title: Re: Transferring better than life 1 to physical Disk?
Post by: tjohnson on 20:15, 11 February 20
Thanks for trying, it seems to have an odd disk format, in glad it wasn't just me that had issues with this.  Thanks Trevor
Title: Re: Transferring better than life 1 to physical Disk?
Post by: Nich on 21:21, 11 February 20
Quote from: Bryce on 14:57, 11 February 20
If you have a HxC, the hfe files on CPCRulez work fine. You just can't copy them to real media.

I haven't tried this myself, but the program Punishment that was included with issue 3 of Better Than Life may be able to copy the HFE files to a real 3" or 3½" disc. It was programmed specifically for copying BTL.
Title: Re: Transferring better than life 1 to physical Disk?
Post by: gerald on 21:40, 11 February 20
Just tested cpc-power dsk image to a 3 1/2" floppy using CPCdiskXp.
Working fine.
What did you try ?
Title: Re: Transferring better than life 1 to physical Disk?
Post by: tjohnson on 22:58, 11 February 20
Quote from: gerald on 21:40, 11 February 20
Just tested cpc-power dsk image to a 3 1/2" floppy using CPCdiskXp.
Working fine.
What did you try ?


Good point no I forgot about that will try that!  Thanks
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