SAMDisk v3.3

 Amstrad CPC, Utility  No Responses »
Jun 162012
 

SAMdisk is a tool to convert floppy disks into various disk images which can be used in emulators. It works with almost all PC floppy controllers and supports also some copy-protected formats. It requires that you have fdrawcmd.sys, a low-level floppy disk driver, installed on your system.

You can download the latest version from the SAMdisk website.

Changes:

  • Added built-in support for zipped and gzipped files
  • Added support for repairing 8K sectors with bad CRCs
  • Added support for raw hard disk images
  • Added identify device data reading, where available (non-USB)
  • Added –hdf to force HDF version (10 or 11), with v1.1 now the default
  • Added –no-identify to ignore source identify data
  • Added –no-cfa to suppress CFA festures in generated identify data
  • Enhanced identify to include CHS/LBA28/LBA48 sector counts and CFA
  • Enhanced verbose disk list to show serial+firmware and MBR partitions
  • Changed disk list to show all devices by default, not just BDOS
  • Fixed repairing to blank target tracks, with new density check
  • Fixed HDD access beyond 4GB boundary, extended -s range to 2TB
  • Fixed SAD image writing with custom sector sizes
  • Fixed status messages being written to log and not erased correctly
  • Improved FDC integrity checks during sector reads, for suspect hardware
  • Improved total sector count to CHS mapping

 

 

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SAMdisk v3.1

 Amstrad CPC, Utility  1 Response »
Mar 272012
 

SAMdisk is a tool to convert floppy disks into various disk images which can be used in emulators. It works with almost all PC floppy controllers and supports also some copy-protected formats. It requires that you have fdrawcmd.sys, a low-level floppy disk driver, installed on your system.

You can download the latest version from the SAMdisk website.

Changes:

  • Added –repair option to help combine damaged image dumps
  • Added write support for D88 images
  • Added support for IMD mixed sector sizes
  • Added record name from source basename, if no label available
  • Added more file sizes for raw image recognition
  • Added verbose track output for floppy->image dumping
  • Fixed IMD creation using 500Kbps instead of 250Kbps
  • Fixed bit alignment during IPF track wrapping
  • Fixed converting images to BDOS format when setting label
  • Increased –rescan matching distance from 32 to 64 bytes
  • Updated to zlib 1.2.5, using zlibwapi.dll instead of zlib1.dll

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  1. SAMDisk v3.3
  2. SAMDisk v3.4
  3. SAMDisk v3.7
  4. SAMDisk v3.8 / v3.8.1
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UberCassette v0.04

 Amstrad CPC, Utility  No Responses »
Mar 172011
 

Ian Gledhill released a new program to transfer recorded cassette files (WAV files) from various computers into the appropriate image file, which you then can use in an emulator. Currently it supports the C64, VIC-20, C16/+4, Acorn Electron, BBC, Sinclair Spectrum and the Amstrad CPC of course. The utility also comes with POSIX-compliant source code and binaries for Windows, Linux x86, AmigaOS 3, AmigaOS 4, AROS PPC, AROS x86 and MorphOS. Currently the utility is a command line only program, but the author may add a GUI in the future. Give it a try and try to convert your tapes with this program and don’t forget to write about your experience with the program in the CPCWiki forum.

You can find examples and the utlity on the homepage of the author.

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CPCPaint

 Amstrad CPC, Development, Utility  No Responses »
Sep 062010
 

Devilmarkus released a standalone version of CPCPaint. With CPCPaint you can draw images and convert PNG, JPG, BMP and GIF into standard CPC screens. It allows you to create overscan (32k) and standard (16k) screens for the CPC. It also integrates an effect mixer with which you can handle the contrast, RGB values, brightness, etc.

You can download the tool from Devilmarkus’ website.

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SAMdisk v3.0

 Amstrad CPC, Utility  No Responses »
Jun 222010
 

SAMdisk is a tool to convert floppy disks into various disk images which can be used in emulators. It works with almost all PC floppy controllers and supports also some copy-protected formats. It requires that you have fdrawcmd.sys, a low-level floppy disk driver, installed on your system.

You can download the latest version from the SAMdisk website.

Changes:

  • Largely re-written again, for non-uniform track support
  • Added +3 protections: Speedlock weak sectors, OperaSoft 32, various motor bug fixes
  • Added CPC protections: Speedlock/EA weak sectors, Infogrames/Loriciel gaps, KBI-10, KBI-19
  • Added support for many disk image containers, including EDSK, TD0, DMK, IPF
  • Added support for zip, gzip and bzip2 archives using zlib1.dll and bzip2.dll
  • Added directory support for MGT, TR-DOS, Opus, Didaktik and Amstrad CP/M
  • HDD support for drives up to 2TB, with improved lock/dismount and safety checks
  • Changed to Unix-style getopt for command-line options
  • Removed embedded fdrawcmd.sys driver

Related posts:

  1. SAMdisk v3.1
  2. SAMDisk v3.4
  3. SAMDisk v3.7
  4. SAMDisk v3.3
  5. SAMDisk v3.8 / v3.8.1
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