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On Friday, September 1, 2023 at 4:43:23 AM UTC+10, fadden wrote:
> CiderPress II v0.3 is now available. Most of the effort was
focused on disk images and filesystems. A five-minute demo of the GUI is
available at
https://youtu.be/5tE07owhcCc .
>
> Summary of changes:
>
> - Added commands: create disk image, create file archive.
> - Added actions: test files, scan disk, save as disk, replace
partition with disk image,
> import, export, defragment.
> - Added disk image formats: Trackstar, DiskCopy 4.2.
> - Added multi-partition disk formats: MicroDrive, FocusDrive.
> - Added filesystems: CP/M, Pascal, Gutenberg (read-only), MFS
(read-only), RDOS (read-only).
> - Added file archive format: MacBinary (read-only).
> - Added access to removable media (with Admin privilege escalation).
> - Added import/export conversion options editor.
> - Added metadata editing.
> - Updated sector editor.
> - Various GUI improvements.
>
> Documentation for the new items has been added to
https://ciderpress2.com/doc-index.html .
>
> Most of these were handled in the original CiderPress, but the
new implementations are generally superior. DiskCopy is no longer limited
to 800KB disks, Trackstar metadata can be edited, CP/M is read-write,
RDOS disk recognition is better, etc.
>
> The multi-disk catalog output should be fairly complete at this
point. For a subset of the Asimov repository it generated 97MB of output
with --depth=max. The listing can be downloaded from
https://faddensoftware.com/asimov-mdc.zip (14MB)
Great work! Looks like lots of improvements over the original
version (which was already an indispensable tool).
Cheers,
Mike
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