Are there any free tools available to extract the files from the disks/cdrom or am I doomed to use the ridiculously expensive virtualrpc emulator?Extracting data from Acorn disk and CD.
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Extracting data from Acorn disk and CD.
So, I've found and bought the Acorn versions of Simon the Sorcerer, just because. Are there any free tools available to extract the files from the disks/cdrom or am I doomed to use the ridiculously expensive virtualrpc emulator?
Are there any free tools available to extract the files from the disks/cdrom or am I doomed to use the ridiculously expensive virtualrpc emulator?
according to http://www.scummvm.org/compatibility.php?details=simon1
using that version will be soundless.
but ill look for a extractor for you
EDIT: http://www.osnews.com/story.php/6170/Em ... ows/page1/
does this help?
EDIT2:ArcDisc or ArcImg might be able to help, i think there emulators but there seems to be very little info about them
though theres no info on the readme about converting/extracting acorn discs. so maybe you don't?
using that version will be soundless.
but ill look for a extractor for you
EDIT: http://www.osnews.com/story.php/6170/Em ... ows/page1/
does this help?
EDIT2:ArcDisc or ArcImg might be able to help, i think there emulators but there seems to be very little info about them
though theres no info on the readme about converting/extracting acorn discs. so maybe you don't?
I will have a look at ArcDisc/ArcImg.
exofreeze: I meant VirtualRPC, the Acorn Archimedes emulator. There is also ArcEm which is free but as far as I can tell it's far from as featureful. Maybe it's enough to just copy the files to the host filesystem in some way though.
exofreeze: I meant VirtualRPC, the Acorn Archimedes emulator.
There is also ArcEm which is free but as far as I can tell it's far from as featureful. Maybe it's enough to just copy the files to the host filesystem in some way though.I thought Acorn CD-ROMs were ISO9660 (ref http://www.keelhaul.me.uk/misc/acorncdlinux.htm) and therefore PC readable (I may be wrong on that though and the only Acorn CD-ROM I have is in another country so I can't try it).
You could use ArcImg (http://www.knowbody.org.uk/arcimage/) to take a disc image of the discs and then use Red Squirrel (http://www.redsquirrel.fsnet.co.uk/) to copy the files to your windows HDD or maybe to a DOS disc.
RPCEmu (http://b-em.bbcmicro.com/arculator/) may also be worth a look as maybe this site http://acorn.revivalteam.de/
Great now I'm missing my collection of Acorns. Hmmm that makes me sound like some sort of squirel
You could use ArcImg (http://www.knowbody.org.uk/arcimage/) to take a disc image of the discs and then use Red Squirrel (http://www.redsquirrel.fsnet.co.uk/) to copy the files to your windows HDD or maybe to a DOS disc.
RPCEmu (http://b-em.bbcmicro.com/arculator/) may also be worth a look as maybe this site http://acorn.revivalteam.de/
Great now I'm missing my collection of Acorns. Hmmm that makes me sound like some sort of squirel
I haven't actually received the CD-version yet but it will arrive in the mail next week. If it has a plain iso9660 filesystem, that's great!
As for the floppy version, I still haven't had time to play with an emulator to see if I can extract it that way but thanks for your suggestions. I will try them out.
As for the floppy version, I still haven't had time to play with an emulator to see if I can extract it that way but thanks for your suggestions. I will try them out.