Floppy disc drive cleaning
The cleaning kit from CJE micro’s has arrived!
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refurbish
Cassette player repair
The belts arrived, and out of the 50 supplied, a good bundle were the right size; I scraped clean the belt wheels, and fitted a new belt:
Cassette players
Ok, so next form of media . . . cassette tapes! That veritable source of games from the 1980’s, when a C15 was useful - yes, 15 minutes on a “compact cassett...
Mouldy floppies
Now to examine the floppy discs - I tried another disc, which as far as I could tell looked fine. Pop it in, and . . . this time, not so good. Disc fault wen...
Loft mining
The loft has been raided; one BBC Master 128k, one Opus Challenger 3in1 and a bundle of 5.25” discs and (gasp) cassettes.
data transfer
Vertigo disc retrieval
Now had the time to clean the discs (with Isopropyl alcohol) and remove mould/dust/grot; I’ve fed them through DDOS2ADFS (and fixed a few bugs :) ).
Finally! DDOS2ADFS utility
For those people struggling with a treasure trove of Opus DDOS format floppy discs. . .
DDOS transfer to ADFS
I then dug around the utilities I’d found when hunting for a Tape2Disc utility, opting in the end for J.G.Harston’s TreeCopy.
TAPE -> ADFS (Part 2)
So, TAPE2DISK utility required; simple spec: Can be left to run automatically, lifting data from a tape and storing it on disc (well, a GoTEK!) Won’t ne...
TAPE -> ADFS (Part 1)
Finally, now to use the GOTEK (as purchased from RetroClinic). I wanted to read from TAPE and store on the USB stick - in this case, a nice opportunity to us...
game sources
Vertigo Electron Cassette Version Released
Electron cassette version sources are added to the BBC Master & BBC ‘B’ disc sources on the GitHub repo!
Vertigo BBC ‘B’ Cassette Version Released
BBC ‘B’ cassette version sources are added to the BBC Master & BBC ‘B’ disc sources on the GitHub repo!
Vertigo BBC ‘B’ Disc Version Released!
BBC ‘B’ disc version sources are added to the BBC Master sources on the GitHub repo!
Vertigo Sources Released!
I’ve extracted and ported the code from the Vertigo Master backup disc - now build via beebasm and binary matches the discs!
Robo-1 is back!
Finally!!! I have set up Robo-1 on GitHub - I’ve created a new repo beeb-typeins where I’ll try and share anything I’ve pulled from aging cassettes, that had...
blog
Tweet c/o Idesyne
Quick shout-out to Mark @ idesine for the tweet - this blog site was triggered by the new edition of “Acorn - A World in Pixels - Extended Edition” when Mark...
GitHub pages in MODE 7
Proof of concept complete; time to blog!
Welcome to Retrograde!
Hello, and welcome to Retrograde! A trip into the disc and tape archives . . .