Porting files from old 3.5in discs

Hi,

I’m trying to find a way to transfer my Basic programs that were developed on an Archimedes A310 back in the late ‘80s from 3.5inch floppy discs. I have managed to create an image file of a DD disc using OmniFlop but I can’t find a way to create a readable disc on PC or on the RPi. Even better would be a utility that can read the Archimedes format on the PC and allow files to be copied to the hard drive. Has anyone found a workable way of dealing with the image file or a utility to read the discs?

Thanks,

Stuart

PS: I don’t want to unpack my old A310 – I don’t have the desk space, the Archimedes (or the monitor) probably won’t work and I can’t remember how to use the thing anyway – so that route is out unless I get really stuck!

AFAIK there isn’t a way to read FileCore formatted disks under Windows.
There is a disk image app for RISC OS called ADFFS to mount disk images, I’ve not tried it yet myself but the author has just updated it to work on RO5 on the RPi. There’s a thread over on the Icon Bar forums.

Thanks Richard. I’ll take a look.

Linux is supposedly able to read ADFS-formatted floppy discs, though I’ve never tried it myself. You could use a live image (e.g. Ubuntu) and mount your floppies that way and copy the files that way (e.g. to a USB stick, and thereafter to your RPi).

A couple of links that may be of assistance:
http://www.adsb.co.uk/bbc/linux/
http://www.filecore.net/riscos/public/filetransferlinux.html (this one talks about transferring from hard drives, so you’d need to modify the steps accordingly).

Take the omniflop file you’ve made and copy it to the computer running RISCOS. Make sure you’ve installed ADFFS (http://adffs.filecore.net), set the filetype of the disc image to “Floppy” and you should be away.

d.