Migrating Acorns

Some collected notes on migrating BBC Micro and Acorn stuff.

Things to cover:

• BBC Micro Data Recovery linking in any new stuff.

• Acorn floppies, why USB floppies can’t be used, and what to do instead (OmniFlop on a PC with an internal drive, I think)

• RiscPC disk imaging, and the LBA flag hack I needed to make it run in RPCEmu

Some potentially relevant bits:

• rhalkyard/acorn-hdfloppy

• https://www.riscosopen.org/forum/forums/11/topics/15957 USB floppies don’t work

• http://acorn.revivalteam.de/?site=DiscImaging

• https://alexsavin.me/posts/2023-11-03-acorn-floppy-discs/

• https://acorn.huininga.nl/pub/unsorted/manuals/Disk Drive And DFS Guide/Disk Drive And DFS Guide.html

• picosonic/bbc-fdc

• https://stardot.org.uk/forums/viewtopic.php?t=14276

• https://www.acornarcade.co.uk/forums/viewthread.php?threadid=11846&page=8

Another set of links to make notes on, slightly wider focus I think:

• https://www.mail-archive.com/rpcemu@riscos.info/msg00736.html

• https://www.riscosopen.org/wiki/documentation/show/Beginners

• https://www.riscosopen.org/content/downloads/riscpc

• https://vimeo.com/user40752008/review/134731949/591059b159