Any BBC B experts on here?

[virtvic]

I recently got a BBC B Master Compact and have no disc drive for it.

Is there a way of burning a 'game' eeprom to fit in the rom sockets inside the machine and can be played?

I am a total noob with this thing, btw...

 

[bonehead]

I am sure when I bought mine back in the day it needed a dfs chip installed in order to use a disc drive. I told my dad I only wanted a cassette player as no one had any docs to copy, then found out ibwas the only one without one!!!!!

I still have it in a drawer at my dads. Would love to play Frac on it again someday.

Hope that helps.

 

[cmonkey]

Retroclinic's your man for all things BBC related. What he doesn't know about them isn't worth knowing. Drop him a message.

 

[virtvic]

It has ADFS enabled already (on the rom, I presume)

I'll get in contact with retro clinic - thanks!

 

[grobda]

easy/cheap way for much beeb goodness is one of these;

http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/Acorn-BBC-Micro-B-Master-MMC-solid-state-disk-drive-/221850370209?hash=item33a75000a1

stardot.org.uk is the best forum for beeb stuff (imo).
grobda2015-08-17 11:42:08

 

[virtvic]

Cheers Grob!

I found that exact one myself last night. I *may* treat myself to one

 

[grobda]

if you're after a cheaper more fiddly option you can hook up an ADFS beeb to a standard PC 3.5 floppy using a 44 pin cable without the twist, you will need to set the drive select jumper to drive zero (PCs are set to 1 by default).

you can then use omniflop on a pc to write disks that the beeb can read (ssd/dsd images). if your pc has a floppy

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if you want even more faff there's a serial transfer program that uses the PC with the beeb as a slave to write disk images, but i've lost the website. it may be one of thiose linked here.

oh and http://www.stairwaytohell.com/ has all the games. some are available as rom images but ive never tried games from rom.

grobda2015-08-17 12:40:33