SAMDisk v3.7 (http://www.octoate.de/wp/2013/07/06/samdisk-v3-7/)
6 July 2013, 2:00 pmSAMdisk 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 (http://simonowen.com/fdrawcmd/), a low-level floppy disk driver, installed on your system.
You can download the latest version from the SAMdisk website (http://simonowen.com/samdisk/).
Changes:- Added support for KryoFlux and DiscFerret stream images (MFM+FM)
- Added preliminary support for D4M (FD-4000) disk images
- Added hex output with –hex or -x, with limited hex using –hex-ish
- Added –no-gap4b to ignore gap data after the final sector
- Added –abs-offsets to show absolute rather than relative sector offsets
- Fixed 'extra byte' EDSK extension being used unnecessarily on CRC errors
- Fixed crash during CPC weak sector sniffing due to no-data 4th sector
- Fixed regular image reading reporting transient disk errors
- Improved support for ED images, including 2.88M raw images
- Improved gap reading support for IPF images
- Changed raw track parsing to ignore headers with ID CRC errors
- Changed raw image writing to use only first cyl to determine format
- Relaxed D2M sniffing by removing system partition type (0xff) check
- Reduced gap sync requirement to remove more unwanted gaps
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- SAMDisk v3.3 (http://www.octoate.de/wp/2012/06/16/samdisk-v3-3/)
- SAMDisk v3.4 (http://www.octoate.de/wp/2012/08/20/samdisk-v3-4/)
- SAMdisk v3.1 (http://www.octoate.de/wp/2012/03/27/samdisk-v3-1/)
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