CPCDiskXP
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CPCDiskXP is a tool for writing and reading DSK-Images using a Windows OS (2000/XP/2003).
It was written by Oscar Sanchez (Mochilote).
Contents
Features
- Standard and extended DSK fomat supported
- Support for protected disks
- Support for zipped DSK images
- Reading/writing of up to 80 tracks on 2 sides
- graphic display of track/sector structure
v.2.0 Update
Version 2.0, released in January 2009, has an interesting change log:
- New DSK EDITOR - Yet another dsk editor (like the winape one or managedsk), you can drag/drop files, read/write to floppy, edit directly the contents of the sectors... It has a 'new dsk' dialog that lets you create any dsk scheme, with any size sectors and order, you can easily generate for example a disk with the first 10 tracks in amsdos (9 sectors of 512) and then the rest tracks of 8k sectors, you can edit/fill the sectors directly with copy/paste from/to an editor...
- GENERAL - On any part of the program, when you open a zip file, DSK selection now don't show dialog if only one dsk is in the zip.
- GENERAL - Require Administrator privileges in Windows Vista, to avoid UAC problems.
- FLOPPY to DSK - Increased the track limit from 82 to 256 tracks. Someone ask for it, use at your own risk.
- DSK to Floppy - Added support for the protection of the games Marauder (UK) (1988) [Original].dsk and Les Geants de L'Arcade Disque 2B (Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom) [original].dsk, maibe some others that have the same protection.
- DSK to Floppy - DSK now is always loaded on memory, no more DSKs on temp directory :-)
- DSK to Floppy - Added support for the protection of the game Sol Negro.
- GENERAL - Added PNG support and new buttons. Also fix problems with buttons position in Windows Vista and other windows custom styles.
- FLOPPY to DSK - Added "Double Step" option, for read 40 track discs on 80 track drives. Someone ask for it since years.
- GENERAL - Added new configuration dialog. Now its posible to associate Dsk files with program in windows, and open directly from windows file explorer in DSK Editor or DSK to Floppy.
- Sectors Graph now shows up to 8k (before only 6k), so it can handle better some protected disks.
- DSK to Floppy - Added support for the protection of the game Prehistorik II by Titus, good news to the cpc plus owners
- DSK to Floppy - Added support for the protection of the game 007 - Licence To Kill.
- FLOPPY to DSK - Solve a problem with 2 sides dumps. In earlier versions the side B became useless and amsdos can't cat/load in side B.
Web links
- CPCMANIA (Home of CPCDiskXP) [1]
