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BDDE (BetaDisk Dump Extractor)

Version:

1.7e

Release date:

Wednesday, 19 February, 2025

Home:

https://worldofspectrum.net/legacy-info/spectrum-betadisk-tr-dos-disk-utilities/

License:

Interface:

Italiano

Authors/Port authors:

Mentore Siesto

J.L. Bezemer

BDDE (BetaDisk Dump Extractor) is an utility that enables a former BetaDisk user to transfer his files to
the IBM-PC or Atari-ST without fiddling around with serial cables and COM-ports.

This software is distributed as compressed package. You have to download and manually install it; if prerequisites are required, you will have to manually install them too.

Manual installation

Program is distributed as ZIP package: download to temporary directory and unpack to destination folder. See below for download link(s).

Following is a list of prerequisites that you have to manually install in order to have the program working:

kLIBC / GCC Runtime Library

You can install the prerequisites with rpm running the following string in a command line:

yum install libc libcx libgcc1 libssp libstdc++6 libstdc++ libsupc++6 libsupc++ libgcc-fwd

Following ones are the download links for manual installation:

BDDE (BetaDisk Dump Extractor) v. 1.7e (1/12/2024, Mentore Siesto)	Readme/What's new	This is an OS/2 - ArcaOS port of BDDE, the BetaDisk Dump Extractor useful for using Beta disks under ZX Spectrum emulators. The Betadisk (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Beta_Disk_Interface) was used by ZX Spectrum users to access disk drives with a simple interface, and it used a proprietary operating system (TR-DOS) which is commonly found in russian ZX Spectrum clones using floppy disks. Since the file formats used are often not readable by emulators, it's good to have some conversion software. I checked on the 'net and found this, together with others I'm porting. Check the attached postscript file for more information, how to use the software and recompile it if you need so (fairly easy taks). If you think my work on OS/2 software is useful, please do drop me a note at my email address. Happy emulating, Mentore
www.hobbesarchive.com/Hobbes/pub/os2/apps/emulator/bdde-1.7.zip	local copy