Installing BeebEF

Unzipping

To install BeebEF, unzip the zip file in any directory with the option 'use folder names' (Winzip) enabled.

If you upgrade from a previous version, unzip the zip file in the directory that already contains BeebEF. Select to overwrite existing files. Your setups (the *.ini files) will be kept.

Then you have to decide whether you want to have your emulator disk filing systems (DFS's) controlled by BeebEF or not. BeebEF comes 'installed' with two DFS roms: a normal DFS and an E00 DFS (which keeps page at &E00--handy for tape-based programs). You can have BeebEF automatically install the right DFS for every program you run in an emulator.

To have BeebEF control the emulator DFS's.

• Remove the DFS rom images from your emulator rom working directories.
  
  Later, with every BBC program you set up for use with BeebEF, you specify whether or not the E00 DFS should be used (default: not), and BeebEF automatically installs the right DFS for the emulator.

To always use the already installed emulator DFS's.

• Remove the DFS rom images from the BeebEF directory 'DFSRoms'.
  
  Now you cannot specify in BeebEF which DFS should be used for a program; instead the DFS roms that are already installed with your emulators are used. Thus, you always use the same DFS: BeebEF cannot switch automatically between a normal DFS and an E00 DFS.

Note 1. The DFS roms in the BeebEF directory 'DFSRoms' are the default Acorn 1.2 DNFS rom and the Solidisk E00 1.2 DFS Rom. You may change these for any DFS roms you like, as long as you use the correct file names: 'DFS.ROM' and 'E00DFS.ROM', respectively.

Note 2. For the E00 DFS to work in any emulator, the emulated sideways RAM/ROM socket into which the DFS is loaded needs to be set writeable! Click here for more information.