65Link

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65Link is a file server for your Acorn BBC model B/B+/Master (Windows & Linux compatible).

Features :

• Sets up a data link between a BBC model B/B+/Master and a host running RISC OS, Windows or Linux, via a connection between the user port of the former and the (at least PS/2 mode capable) parallel port of the latter.
• Enables, via this link, files of your BBC to be stored and manipulated on the harddisc of the host machine (in named volumes, each containing up to eight 'drives'), using a full featured, DFS-like filing system called LFS, second processor support included.
• Offers very fast file access and transfer, and virtually unlimited storage space.

Note that 65Link requires a special parallel cable to be made, and LFS to run on the Acorn BBC model B/B+/Master (i.e. an EPROM to be blown with LFS, and inserted into a free sideways ROM socket).

65Link is Freeware.

Download version 2.40 (25 June 2006), PackDir archive
Download version 2.40 (25 June 2006), Zip archive (for Windows users)
Download version 2.40 (25 June 2006), gzipped tar archive (for Linux users)
Download version 2.40 (25 June 2006), Zip archive (server side source code)

If you want (or need) to, you can order a ready made cable plus a programmed EPROM from me, for 29 Euro (including postage and packaging). Send me an email with your snail mail address and either arrange payment with me, or, preferrably, pay quickly and easily via PayPal (credit cards accepted) :

Status Freeware OS compatibility RISC OS 3.1 and later, or Windows 95 and later, or Linux Hardware restrictions Requires a PS/2 mode capable parallel port Processor compatibility ARM 2 and later (26-bit modes only), or 80386 and later

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