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Peter Broughton v2.01b modified disk for the Microbee - ChickenMan - 20-01-2023
Thanks to ejwords for making this disk available to be imaged. It's a standard Microbee DS80 3.5" disk, bootable that imaged 100% error free.
This is Microbee 512k Peter Boughton (PB) system disk version 2.01b modified by Mick Corlis MML on 7th August 1988 and best suited for a 512k memory upgraded Microbee, but works fine on a 128k Microbee. The normal Microbee INIT program now works and has been updated with some of the 512k system features, such as selecting double speed (if you have done the mod). The normal SETSYS program is still there but 512k system features are turned off. The disk also contains a number of great utilities, such as -
B512V2.COM - Sysgen v4.1 by MML
BEEIMP.COM - Comms program for the Microbee 128k with SCC (Port A)
DE.COM - Disk Editor
DEAD.COM - Disk Editor & Diagnostics
DISKSTAT.COM - Displays DPB, DPH and Disk Allocation by MML
FASTBURN.COM - Fast EPROM burner for Microbee burner by Craig Southeren
FORMAT48.COM - Microbee 3.5" & 5.25" disk formatter
SCCDIAGS.COM - SCC Diagnostics
TRAKCOPY.COM - Track to Track disk copy utility v2.1
plus a heap of other support programs. The disk boots to -
So, in the MbeeTech Repository in the Microbee\Software\System_Disks folder we placed -
peter_broughton_v2.01b_modified_ds80.dsk