Category: Disk Images

John Morris has announce the availability of the version 1.57 of the Applesauce Floppy Disk Controller Client Software. According to the release, The new version of the Applesauce Client includes the following changes: New Features Official support for 8-inch drives is here! You can now specify them in the Drive Configuration screen. If you were being sneaky and already using an 8-inch drive with a 5.25-inch profile, then you should edit your profile to change it to 8-inch. This will…

From the europlus zone blog: [A]lthough it’s not far away, I’m very happy to announce the date for the next WOzFest: WOzFest RC 21/10 will be held on Saturday 2 October 2021, starting at midday Sydney time (UTC+10:00). And, to top off the year, I can also announce that WOzFest 22 will be held on Saturday 30 October 2021, starting at midday Sydney time (UTC+11:00). Why two WOzFests in one month? Well the name for ’21 should give the clue – I’m entering RetroChallenge 21/10, and it seemed a good way to…

This release is mainly cleanup of the current bug list. Please watch your step, lots of squashed bugs around here. Maybe a new feature or two as well. Added file system support for Lisa Monitor. Preliminary support for loading DiscFerret DFI images for single-sided 5.25 disks. Improved geometry calculations for disks that lie about sector numbers. Improved data repair by looking at more neighboring tracks. Fixed: Flux Imager saving could sometimes encounter errors when saving as illegal filenames, and then…

Diskbrowser version 1.51 has been released. The Apple II Diskbrowser is an Apple II disk image viewer created by Denis Molony, which runs on Mac OS X, Windows X, as well as Linux. It allows users to view the contents of varying types of Apple II series disk images including the John Morris created .WOZ format as well as .HDV hard disk images. Apple II Diskbrowser version 1.51 includes a host of bug fixes as well as additional Applesoft BASIC…

Applesauce Floppy Disk Controller Client Software has been updated. Version 1.36 of Applesauce FDC includes the following improvements and fixes: Support for imaging/validating/exploring 3.5″ PC (FAT12) disks is now officially supported! Imaging these disk requires an Apple SuperDrive connected to your Applesauce. I know this isn’t Apple-related, but some folks really wanted me to get this together. Additional support for exporting disks from the Disk Analyzer in Raw Sector Image (.img) format. Loading of IMG files is coming soon. Applesauce…

Apple II Disk image data conversion program, Applecommander, has been updated. Version 1.6.0 includes some nifty new features including. Ability to load a text file with conversion to Apple format with highbit off (see ac -ptx …). See #33. An ac build for Java 1.5 is available (AppleCommander-ac-1.6.0-java5.jar). See #29 for discussion. Applecommander is an aplication for multiple platforms which allows users to not only view the data on Apple II disk images but to also export the files from the disk image to the local…

The new Applesauce client 1.1 has been released! This is a huge update with lots of new features all over the app. The biggest work has been around .woz generation. The 3.5″ woz generation is now complete, including the ability to write copy protected images back to floppy! The 5.25 woz generation is spitting out functioning files, but still has a good amount of work left to do. Also, 3.5″ sync sensors are now available for purchase from the Order…

The Apple II floppy emulator options have been shrinking lately, with availability being limited to a few devices. From the CFFA 3000 last run to most other devices deprecated, there’s only two or three available right now. That’s why KbooHK coming into the Apple II community is quite welcome, and their product promises a great deal by supporting the new .Woz file format. The Wdrive is a small device, very well designed and built, It is a real floppy replacement…

Andy McFadden has announced the official release of Ciderpress version 4.0.3.   According to the official Ciderpress release page, the update includes the following changes: This is a minor update. Bug fixes and features since v4.0.2: Changed the behavior of file extraction so that file extensions are never added unless “add file extension” is checked. Previously, files whose contents were converted for use in Windows always had the file extension added. Added support for MouseText and inverse text in AppleWorks 5…

Denis Molony has released a new version of his Java based Apple II Disk management utility, Apple II Disk Browser.  This disk image utility was covered in the Summer 2017 issue of Call-A.P.P.L.E. magazine and is one of the hottest net utilities available for management of Apple II disk images, allowing users to see the real content of the files in a host of different programs and program types. Apple II Disk Browser Version 1.0.24 is the result of several…

Andy McFadden, curator of the CiderPress GitHub repository, has made his latest changes to the app available through the CiderPress releases page.  According to his posting, this latest version includes the following changes: Changed the behavior of file extraction so that file extensions are never added unless “add file extension” is checked. Previously, files whose contents were converted for use in Windows always had the file extension added. For more information about current releases or to download the latest version…

The Apple II hacker, 4am (@a2_4am) has announced that the Apple II Disk Image cracking utility Passport has been updated.  Passport is a utility for the Apple II computer which automatically removes the disk protection schemes from the original disk, leaving the program completely unprotected. Passport v20171114 includes a host of new features and fixes including: Supports ProDOS RAM disks to read an entire disk at once (IIgs RAM disk, RAMFactor, RAMWorks, modern clones) NEW: DOS 3.2 support (MUSE, Edu-Ware,…

Ciderpress 4.0.3 a2 is now available from the Ciderpress releases page.   Ciderpress allows users to manipulate disk images and hard drive images on a windows machine. This update to the program in this minor alpha release ncludes the following changes: Added support for MouseText and inverse text in AppleWorks 5 WP docs. MouseText can be converted to similar Unicode symbols or ASCII. You can download the release from the Ciderpress website at: https://github.com/fadden/ciderpress/releases/

A new release of Ciderpress is now on the GitHub repository for the application.   Version 4.0.3 alpha 1 contains fixes for a 64-bit math issue which was causing problems with disk partitions over 4gb in size. This version and other previous releases are available for download from the GitHub Ciderpress site. For more information or to download Ciderpress, go to the releases page at: https://github.com/fadden/ciderpress/releases/

Brutal Deluxe Software have announced that Bitsy Rip, a new low-level copy program for the Apple II is now available.   According to the announcement by Antoine Vignau of Brutal Deluxe Software: Bitsy Rip is a low level disk imaging software using an Apple IIgs and a standard 5.25″ disk drive, no extra hardware is required! This 0.4 version is pre-alpha and really more proof-of-concept than a usable product. It requires 4 MB of ram and stores the disk nibble data…

David Schmidt has announced the immediate availability of ADTPro 2.0.2.  The latest update includes ProDOS 2.4.1 as the base operating system as well as a host of other new features and bug fixes including: New functionality: Support added for Uthernet II based on new integrated IP65 library from Oliver Schmidt (http://oliverschmidt.github.io/ip65/) Integrated John Brooks’ ProDOS 2.4.1 as base operating system for all ADTPro actions (Speediboot, text bootstrapping, base disks, etc.) [VDrive] Uthernet II virtual Ethernet driver from Oliver Schmidt that…

Version 2.0.1 of ADTPro has been released.  This version has a fix that is important for users with native RS-232 serial ports (though they’re getting more and more rare all the time).  There’s also some help for  our friends that are trying to tune their audio settings, and a few  other bug fixes.  Initial text bootstrapping is faster due to some  screen trickery and denser packing of data. http://adtpro.sourceforge.net 2.0.1 – March 21, 2015 New functionality: * [Audio] Client sends…

Mike Harvey has announced through his website, the immediate availability of all of the programs from the full run of Nibble Magazine.   Apple II hobbyist Stavros Karatsoidis has spent the better part of 3.5 years typing all of the programs from the magazines into an iPad.  The result is more than 1200 programs on a total of 69 floppy disks.  The complete disk collection is downloadable for free from the Nibble Magazine Disks page at: http://www.nibblemagazine.com/nibble_disks.htm A complete program index…

ADTPro, the vintage apple disk imaging software, has been updated to version 2.0.0.  ADTPro allows users to image floppies from Apple II and Apple III series computers and allows boot strapping of machines directly from a disk image over bare wire.  The software handles a number of emulator image formats and supports many of the newer hardware items produced for the Apple II and Apple II series computers. New features in 2.0.0 included as specified in posting by David Schmidt…

From CSA2 Announcment by David Schmidt:  For your consideration this Christmas day:ADTPro 1.2.9 has been released.  There are a few tweaks that came up under some heavy usage scenarios: Nibble sends now work in batch mode, and they are a little more tolerant of communications failures.  This gets really handy when you have, for example, a pile of 13-sector disks to image.  Linards Ticmanis’ 13- sector ADT13 was always an option, but due to the fact that DOS 3.2 and…