05-05-2022, 08:36 PM
> there are so few ROM based bees out there [unlike the VZx00 / Amstrad etc]
Really? OK, I was under the impression that the ROM ones are the most common and the disk ones were the rare ones. Go figure. Wonder how I got that impression...
>Alternatively, you could upgrade your machine to be a Premium Plus and then have the SDcard to load all the floppy disk images from
with no need for an external floppy drive or gotek.
This... It is the massive external floppy drive box that I'm trying to avoid. Every other machine I have is small, compact and self contained.
OK, so there is a solution, and luckily I have a Premium machine to allow me to do this... But if I didn't, I'd be out of luck? Do you also have numbers of how many Premium vs Standard machines are out there and thus this solution doesn't work for them?
>While it would be possible to do something like the ones you've pointed to
Well that's good to know and gives me hope that maybe someone might design such a thing. I'm soon to get my hands on a VZ300 and one of those SD drives and I might take a look at reverse engineering one and adapting for the Bee.
Really? OK, I was under the impression that the ROM ones are the most common and the disk ones were the rare ones. Go figure. Wonder how I got that impression...
>Alternatively, you could upgrade your machine to be a Premium Plus and then have the SDcard to load all the floppy disk images from
with no need for an external floppy drive or gotek.
This... It is the massive external floppy drive box that I'm trying to avoid. Every other machine I have is small, compact and self contained.
OK, so there is a solution, and luckily I have a Premium machine to allow me to do this... But if I didn't, I'd be out of luck? Do you also have numbers of how many Premium vs Standard machines are out there and thus this solution doesn't work for them?
>While it would be possible to do something like the ones you've pointed to
Well that's good to know and gives me hope that maybe someone might design such a thing. I'm soon to get my hands on a VZ300 and one of those SD drives and I might take a look at reverse engineering one and adapting for the Bee.