[BBC-Micro] ADFS and DFS in a beeb

Phil Blundell philb at gnu.org
Fri Jan 12 13:06:12 GMT 2007


On Fri, 2007-01-12 at 06:24 -0600, Jules Richardson wrote:
> Can both ADFS and DFS ROMs exist in a BBC micro, with the user selecting 
> between them?

Yeah.

> Specifically, the model B which sits on my desk currently has Watford's DFS in 
> it, but I'd like to throw ADFS in there too and just select which one I want 
> to be active via software.

That should be fine.  You'll lose quite a lot of RAM to their respective
workspaces, though.

> I *think* it might be as simple as issuing either *DFS or *ADFS from the CLI, 
> but a quick flick through the user / advanced user / advanced disc user guides 
> hasn't told me whether this is 'safe' to do - quite possibly I haven't guessed 
> the right words to look up in the indices though.

*ADFS and *DISC, I think.  Or Ctrl-A-Break and Ctrl-D-Break.

p.





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