As people have asked about it, here's a brief overview of my workflow for getting an Amstrad CP/M adventure from an Amstrad disk image to a real (or simulated) Sam Coupe. There are lots of different ways to do it. This is my way and relies on having a certain set-up... in my case, having access to a Windows desktop machine with a physical 3.5" disk, running Windows XP (or earlier).

1. Load the disk image into the WinApe emulator, the machine type should be set as Amstrad 6128. (File > Drive A: > Insert Disc Image)

2. Boot CP/M... I'm not sure if this is actually needed but I do it anyway. You boot CPM in the emulator by typing |CPM <-- press shift and the [ key to get the | symbol

3. Open up the Edit disk interface... File > Drive A: > Edit Disc

4. You can drag and drop the files you see here onto your computer. You'll be wanting the .COM file that contains the adventure you want to play.

** This is the raw .COM file that you can transfer to all sorts of different CP/M systems to play your adventure on **

Now, you need to get it into a Sam. If you have a fancy SD card interface or whatever you can probably do this very easily. I don't have those so I need a workaround. Here's my workaround.

5. From the Windows XP dos prompt, I format a Sam compatible disk for MS-DOS using the command FORMAT A: /T:80 /N:9

6. Then I use the DOS copy command to transfer the files I want to it. e.g. COPY *.COM A:

So my CP/M adventures are now on a Floppy disk that I can use with a real Sam or in SimCoupe. No matter which I use, the process is the same...

7. Boot up the ProDos disk on your real Sam or emulator (from an image). This loads in the CP/M compatible DOS and creates a RAM disk which is labelled A: (A0:). This isn't a real disk but it has all the useful system files on it and you can use it to run programs and transfer programs to and from.

8. Stick your MS-DOS floppy in the drive. That drive is Drive B but Prodos can't read it directly as it's not in the correct format. Luckily Prodos 2 has a wonderful FAT format reading utility. So cool! Type FATREAD B:

9: You can now read your MS-DOS disk. You can type DIR to see the contents if you wish, but we want to copy the files to our ramdisk for now. So type COPY *.* or *.COM or ADVENT.COM depending on how many files you want to move across... there is a limit on the size of the ram disk.

10. Once you've done that type EXIT and you'll go back to your ramdisk. Type the name of your .COM files, the first part... so for ADVENT.COM type ADVENT and it should run.

Once the files are on the Ram disk you can copy them across to a suitably formatted Sam Prodos disk. Or a virtual image if you'r using an emulator.

Like I said, this is just the way I'm currently doing things. There are probably easier ways. There are certainly many different ways. It's just the way that works for me with the hardware I have got hold of.