Zip drivers for Acorn machines?

[Jonathan McDowell]

On Tue, Nov 27, 2001 at 12:22:14PM +0000, Adrian Jackson wrote:
> Does anyone know where Zip drivers can be had for Acorn machines? If
> it's expecting an ADFS formatted drive, then probably the easiest way
> to accomplish that is to plug the Zip drive into my A5000 and format
> it there. :) Should be a simple matter to get things running from
> there.

No idea. I do know that you want the Argo (sp?) drivers though and that
the Bush will recognize a disk formated with these. I haven't been able
to find them anywhere though, not that it would do me much good as I
have no RISC OS machine.

> Has anyone tried *DESKTOP from the CLI? Does it just drop you straight
> into the normal UI, or is it possible to reach the standard RISC OS
> desktop? Haven't had a chance to get my unit home yet, so I'll
> probably be trying that tonight...
 
*DESKTOP just gives you a blank screen, or at least it did when I tried.
You can move the mouse pointer about, but that's about it.

I understand that it /is/ possible to get a desktop up and running if
you copy across the appropriate things onto a Zip disk though.

J.

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