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
- The Mastering process in the Disk Analyzer now supports the verification markers. This allows disks that are being written to be able to also be verified. When using Autogenerate Markers, it will also create the verification markers for you if the analyzer understands the disk structure. Complex copy protection may need to be marked manually. Verification makers will be loaded and saved within MMK files. I’ll update the Mastering section of the wiki soon to cover the new functionality.
- I’ve gotten back into doing more Apple II-centric work recently. Improvements have been made to the recognition of trickier sector markers, like ones that start with just a single nibble. Back in the day, there was a popular cracking tool called Advanced Demuffin which allowed you to copy sectors from a disk that used changed sector markers or custom nibble encoding tables. It would “normalize” these onto a new disk so that you could play around with it in a sector editor. Applesauce now offers this functionality when you export a copy protected 13/16 sector disk or a 3.5 disk. If applicable, there will now be export options a “normalized” disk. Also works for Mac disks.
- I broke the loading of IMD and TDO in the last released, working again.
- The flux timing graph in the Disk Analyzer now properly highlights the correct fluxes when selecting nibbles while viewing the track in an alternate encoding.
- Some cleanup to the reconstitution of Apple Lisa Twiggy disks. It now correctly generates the sequence of A9 nibbles before the first sector of each track.
- Processing C64 disks won’t barf out hundreds of log messages if the disk id for sectors don’t match the correct one (typically done for copy protection).
- Some small cleanup and improvements to the flux and fast imagers.
- Still continuing with some cleanup and modernization of the source code.
- I missed the setting of some flags when loading A2R files in the last release. This is now fixed.
- More improvements to automatic encoding recognition.
- Restored proper functionality of the side auto detection in the Flux Imager.
- Fixed the loading/writing of Apple DSK, D13, and DO images.
- A few improvements to DMK handling and other TRS-80 goodies.
- HFE now has better encoding detection and support for creation from images done on an Apple Disk II.
- Fixed visualization of disks images on Apple Disk II.
- Improvements to rotating disk images in the Disk Analyzer.
- Lots more little bits of code cleanup.
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/
