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 use ADFS (all those years, I’d mostly used Opus DDOS - 720kb vs ADFS 640kb, that and its RAM disc..).
Initial challenge was - how to do it? There’s a simple recipe, the manual way:
*TAPELOAD ""- Press “play”, and note the filename..
*ADFSSAVE "whatever"- ..and its now on the USB stick
Just need to select a suitable disc image in the GoTEK (an ADFS one in this case) - with sufficient space, of course. This meant that the .ADF file on the USB stick can then be read in on a PC/Mac and used with an emulator or just extracted as a data file for use natively.
To extract the data, I looked around, and found Jon Welch’s Mac ADFS Explorer which meant my macbook would be useable as a dev tool. Suffice to say, one USB stick later - and the data (after 30+ years - nearer 40!) was now from cassette and onto far newer hardware. Proof of concept: tick!
However, this was pretty laborious - must be a quicker way. I looked around the web, and found a fair few utilities:
CopyFiles- on the BBC Welcome DiscCopyFiles- updated at Sprow’s web pagesDisc DoctorROM - good thread on StarDotTreeCopy- from J.G.Harston @ MDFS
Now, all of these (alas) seem to bo focussed on DFS transfers - something I’ll need later, but at the moment - I need a simple LOAD->SAVE utility. Can’t seem to find one!
Time to roll up my sleeves then, and back to hacking BBC BASIC - but now with an internet to help me!