Setting up programs

All BBC programs to be used by an emulator should be stored as disk images (or archives) or rom images.

Disk images should have the extension '.ssd', '.img' (single sided), '.dsd' (double sided) or '.adf' (ADFS format). BeebEF also supports the standard archive format (*.zip, containing *.inf files) and the universal emulator format (*.uef), although these are formally not disk images. See the emulator tips page for information about the use of the standard archive format.

Rom images should have the extension '.rom'.

To set up a new program for use with BeebEF, select 'Programs|New' from the main screen, or press the 'New program' button on the tool bar (the leftmost button). Program setups can be edited by selecting 'Programs|Edit' or the 'Edit program' button (the second button from the left). They can be deleted by selecting 'Programs|Delete' or the 'Delete program' button (the third button from the left).

Program setups are added or edited in the following window.

The window contains the following sections.

Identification

Information

Other

If a program is selected in the main BeebEF window, a picture of the program is shown on the first tab ('Picture'). The picture file is not selected in the programs window, which is discussed here. Instead, the picture file should have the same path and file name as the program, bar the extension, which should be '.jpg'. (Only JPEG files are accepted.) So, for example, if a disk image name is 'C:\BBC\Software\Acornsoft\Snapper.ssd', the picture file name should be 'C:\BBC\Software\Acornsoft\Snapper.jpg'


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