Category: Disk Imaging
Disk Jockey is an app for creating and analyzing disk images for retro computing platform emulators as well as actual hardware, including the Apple II, Amiga and Atari ST. The add will run on the following Mac OS platforms: It also runs natively on Intel and Apple Silicon machines and will run offline. Changes in Disk Jockey version 3.4 include the following items: You can download the latest version of Disk Jockey as well as older versions at:https://diskjockey.onegeekarmy.eu/
The Applesauce FDC Client Software has been updated. Version 1.86 of the Applesauce FDC Client Software includes the following updates and fixes from the past few weeks: Improvements and Fixes in 1.86 You can download the latest version of the software by doing the automatic update through the client software or from the Applesauce FDC Software page at:https://applesaucefdc.com/software/
The Applesauce Floppy Disk Controller software suite has been updated. Version 1.70 was released by John Morris with the following changes: The most anticipated feature of this release is a powerful new disk writing system that works from the Disk Analyzer. Almost anything that can be loaded into the analyzer can also be written to disk, including copy protected software! But, using this feature effectively does require that you have at least a basic understanding of how disks are structured…
John Morris, creator of the Applesauce Floppy Disk Controller, has announced an update to the Applesauce FDC Software. The two successive releases, 1.69 and 1.69.1 include the following changes to the program: Client Release 1.69 More Heathkit H-17 work. Improved disk writing of H8D files. Added loading/writing support for 80 track disks. Imaging of 80 track H-17 disks still needs some work. Support for Heathkit HDOS has been added allowing you to extract and view files as well as Fast…
The major feature of this release is the inclusion of a system to allow users to create their own disk format definitions to be used by Applesauce. There is now an Applesauce folder in your user’s Documents folder where files will be stored that can expand the features of the client program. Within the Formats folder, you will find two files: hardsector_config.json and ibmsector_config.json. You can use these files to create new hard sector disk formats as well as formats…
The Applesauce Floppy Disk Controller client software has been updated. Applesauce 1.60 includes a number of new features and new supported formats as well as new disk sizes. Some of the changes and fixes included in this version are as follows: Improvements and Fixes There has been a major under the hood change to how Applesauce stores and manipulates low-level flux data. This change brings better efficiency and accuracy to many parts of the app. Hopefully I didn’t break anything…
The Applesauce Floppy Disk Controller client software has been updated to version 1.59. New and Improved DIsk Image Format Support Now supports loading KryoFlux Raw image files. While loading it also recognizes 5.25″ double-density disks that were improperly imaged at 360rpm and will automatically time-shift them to 300rpm to correct them. Opening IMD (ImageDisk) files is now supported. Exporting IMD files also has several improvements. Improved support for SCP (SuperCard Pro) disk images. Improved support for DFI (DiscFerret) disk images….
The latest version of the Applesauce Floppy Disk Controller software has been released. Applesauce FDC version 1.56.1 includes the following updates: Improvements and Fixes A new system has been created for processing hard-sectored disks. This will allow for the rapid implementation of support for new disk formats. Added another data repair technique for disks using IBM sector structure. Added DMK exporting for TRS-80 disks. Improved IMD exporting. Analog Chacteristics test has been revamped a bit to allow for drives with…
The theme of this release is Searching. A new Find command has been added to the Disk Analyzer. It will allow you to search Nibble Streams, Sectors, Blocks, and Files for Hex or Text strings. The Hex search also supports wildcards by replacing any nybble with a ? character (ex: D5 A? 96) Text search is case insensitive and supports Apple II high bit characters. For nibble searches, you can add a + character to require that hidden timing bits…
Apple II Diskbrowser version 1.55 has been released. The Apple II Diskbrowser is a disk image viewer produced by Denis Molony that allows users to view the contents of their Apple II disk images. Version 1.55 includes additional support for Applesoft Programs including better formatting and wrapping of Applesoft program listings. It also provides complete analysis of programs including variable and array listings. Appel II Disk browser handles many different Apple II series computer disk image formats including: DOS Prodos…
John Morris, creator of the Applesauce Floppy Disk Controller, announced the latest release of his Applesauce FDC software. Included in this release are a host of updates and fixes. John has released the following Press Release: I’m finally getting settled in some new digs and once again have some office space to get coding done. I’ve been able to carve out a bit of time to knock some tasks from my todo list for Applesauce. One of the bigger items…
David Schmidt has announced the immediate availability of the ADTPro floppy disk creation / bootstrapping software. ADTPro allows users to make physical copies of floppy disk images on all Apple II/III series platforms. Included in this release are the following changes: [Server] Switched out rxtx in favor of jssc for hardware serial port access [Server] Better “change working directory” behavior on Windows [Client] Special characters and too-long filenames confused the file picker – addresses GitHub issue #53 [SOS Client] Using…
Apple II Disk Browser has been updated. The Denis Molony produced Apple II disk image viewing application has a number of bug fixes included in this version of the program. Apple II Diskbrowser version 1.47 is downloadable for free from the Diskbrowser Github page at:https://github.com/dmolony/DiskBrowser
Denis Molony has released an update to his Apple II Diskbrower program. Diskbrowser which was originally developed for Mac OS X also will run on Windows and Linux platforms with Java installed. Diskbrowser 1.45 introduces a few bug fixes including one which was causing the program to freeze on Mac OS X. You can download the latest version of the Diskbrowser App from Denis’ Github page at: https://github.com/dmolony/DiskBrowser




















