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August 14, 2010 – TRS-80 Virtual Floppy Disk Manager Updated

Ira — Sun, 15 Aug 2010 01:00:27 +0000

August 14, 2010 – TRS-80 Virtual Floppy Disk Manager Updated

Miguel Dutra has released v0.7 of his Command Line version of his Virtual Disk Manager utility for Windows. This is a small utility which allows you to access virtual TRS-80 disks at a file level, as if they were normal PC disks.

It appears that this utility can read all known TRS-80 DOS’s except for (1) CPM and (2) anything made by Percom.

Program can be found on Miguel’s web site, on the DSK and DMK Image Utilities page, or HERE for Command Line 0.7 and HERE for GUI 0.5.

The new version brings:

* CLI: Could not recognize the parameters “-td2″ and “-td3″
* CLI: Crashed when “-k” was used with long file names
* CLI: Internal Win2Trs routine generated some ill-formed file names
* CLI: Internal Dump routine now prints blanks instead of dots in the ASCII column data
* TRSDOS1: Caused an abrupt program termination when allocating granules
* TRSDOS3: Caused an abrupt program termination when allocating granules
* NEWDOS/80: Created files with less than the requested space
* NEWDOS/80: Improved disk compatibility through better PDRIVE handling
* DMK: Improved disk compatibility through better geometry detection and sector addressing
* Other: Granule allocation routines failed to properly determine the available disk space
* Other: Improved GetFileDate routines to get date values with as little modification as possible
* Other: Improved OS detection routines to reduce the number of wrong identifications

April 28, 2010 – Update to TRSTOOLS DSK/DMK Import/Export Utility

Ira — Wed, 28 Apr 2010 14:25:00 +0000

April 28, 2010 – Update to TRSTOOLS DSK/DMK Import/Export Utility
Matthew Reed has released v1.03 of Windows GUI DSK/DMK image utility TRSTOOLS.
The changelog includes: Improved Windows 7 support in several areas Improved viewing CMD files on MULTIDOS disks Eliminated extraneous beep when viewing files under certain sound schemes
The new version can be downloaded from: Matthew’s web site or from the DSK and DMK Image Utilities page or This Direct Link.

March 24, 2010 – Symbolic Z80 disassembler for TRS-80 CMD files for the PC

Ira — Thu, 25 Mar 2010 02:00:29 +0000

March 24, 2010 – Symbolic Z80 disassembler for TRS-80 CMD files for the PC
Matthew Reed has just released Z80Disasm, a new symbolic Z80 disassembler for TRS-80 CMD files. The disassembler is a freeware Windows-based command line utility that makes it easier to develop TRS-80 software on a Windows machine.	(Click for larger image)
Z80Disasm can read CMD files from the Windows hard drive or off of a TRS-80 .DSK file, and it supports MISOSYS-style screening files for maximum flexibility Z80Disasm can be downloaded from Matthew Reed’s Z80Disasm Page.

January 15, 2009 – CatWeasel Utilities Updated to v4.4

Ira — Sat, 16 Jan 2010 03:32:32 +0000

January 15, 2009 – CatWeasel Utilities Updated to v4.4

Tim Mann has updated his CatWeasel read/write utilities to v4.4. Changes are:

* The Linux binaries included in this distribution are compiled on a 32-bit Ubuntu 8.04.3 LTS system. The MS-DOS binaries are still compiled with a version of djgpp from the year 2000, under djgpp. The MS-DOS binaries are untested at the time of this release.

* Updated to the current Catweasel MK4 firmware from Individual Computers, moving from pre29.cw4 to rel2f2.cw4. Changed catweasl.c slightly to work with the new firmware — the write pulse width now must be set.

* Fixed cw2dmk bug where the total sectors read in each encoding counted all retries, not just the last one.

* Added -r option to cw2dmk and dmk2cw to reverse the sides. This is mostly to help split/join disks that have a separate one-sided image on each side but were written with a double-sided drive (that is, they are not flippy) to/from two separate DMK images.

* Fixed an incompatibility with newer versions of libpci that had prevented recompiled Linux binaries from recognizing a PCI Catweasel.

* Added a dmk2cw option to use only a prefix of the track in the DMK file.

* Changed the way dmk2cw generates fill data when the DMK track is shorter than needed to fill the disk. Added an option to select some alternative fill methods.

* Some small fixes and cleanups, mostly in documentation and messages.

The updated version can be downloaded here or from Tim’s site.

December 3, 2009 – New DSK/DMK Tool from Matthew Reed

Ira — Thu, 03 Dec 2009 22:15:17 +0000

December 3, 2009 – New DSK/DMK Tool from Matthew Reed

Matthew Reed, author of the wonderful TRS32 emulator has released “TRSTOOLS,” a utility that makes it easier to work with virtual disk images.

TRSTools features incude:

Open an existing virtual disk image

Create a new virtual disk image

Add files to or extract files from the disk image (with file dates preserved)

Preview files (with integrated viewer)

Rename files

Delete files

Change the disk label and volume date

Drag and Drop support to and from Windows Explorer

Integrated file viewer

That last point, the built-in viewer, can preview several different types of TRS-80 file formats, including:

Text files, with any line ending

Tokenized Model III BASIC programs

Model III and Model 4 high-resolution images (/HR)

Model 4 compressed high-resolution images (/CHR)

Model 4 super-compressed high-resolution images (/SHR)

Binary files (which can be viewed as a hexadecimal dump)

TRSTools supports the following TRS-80 Operating Systems:

TRSDOS 2.3 (Model I)

TRSDOS 1.3 (Model III)

TRSDOS 6 and LS-DOS (Model 4)

LDOS (Model I and III)

DOSPLUS (Model I, III, and 4)

MULTIDOS (Model I, III, and 4)

NEWDOS (Model I)

NEWDOS/80 (Model I and III)

ULTRADOS (Model I)

DBLDOS (Model I)

VTOS (Model I)

RAPIDOS (Model 4)

Download:
TRSTools v1.0 can be downloaded from Matthew Reed’s web site or from the Utilities Section of the DSK and DMK Image Utilities Page.

September 27, 2009 – TRS-80 Virtual Floppy Disk Manager Updated

Ira — Sun, 27 Sep 2009 22:53:03 +0000

September 27, 2009 – TRS-80 Virtual Floppy Disk Manager Updated

Miguel Dutra has released v0.5 of his GUI version of his Virtual Disk Manager utility for Windows. This is a small utility which allows you to access virtual TRS-80 disks at a file level, as if they were normal PC disks.

It appears that this utility can read all known TRS-80 DOS’s except for (1) CPM and (2) anything made by Percom.

Explanations and the program can be found on Miguel’s web site and on the TRS-80 Disk and Tape Conversion Utilities page.

The new version brings:

* Open DSK and DMK files by just double-clicking over them
* Choose whether to detect file formats automatically or manually
* Choose whether to show or hide system and invisible files
* Sort files by name, extension, size, date and attributes
* Export multiple selected files at once
* See disk properties including name, date, DOS version etc.
* Navigate through disk sectors

September 13, 2009 – TRS-80 Virtual Floppy Disk Manager Updated

Ira — Sun, 13 Sep 2009 17:38:08 +0000


Miguel Dutra has released v0.4 of his command line version of his Virtual Disk Manager utility for Windows. This is a small utility which allows you to access virtual TRS-80 disks at a file level, as if they were normal PC disks. Explanations and the program can be found on Miguel’s web site and on the TRS-80 Disk and Tape Conversion Utilities page.

July 24, 2009 – TRS-80 Virtual Floppy Disk Manager Updated

Ira — Fri, 24 Jul 2009 14:41:56 +0000

July 24, 2009 – TRS-80 Virtual Floppy Disk Manager Updated
Miguel Dutra has released v0.2.2 of his new Virtual Disk Manager utility for Windows. This is a small utility which allows you to access virtual TRS-80 disks at a file level, as if they were normal PC disks. Explanations and the program can be found on Miguel’s web site and on the TRS-80 Disk and Tape Conversion Utilities page.

July 23, 2009 – TRS-80 Virtual Floppy Disk Manager Updated

Ira — Thu, 23 Jul 2009 07:29:31 +0000

July 23, 2009 – TRS-80 Virtual Floppy Disk Manager Updated

Miguel Dutra has released v0.2 of his new Virtual Disk Manager utility for Windows. This is a small utility which allows you to access virtual TRS-80 disks at a file level, as if they were normal PC disks.

The TRS-80 Virtual Disk Manager shows the file name, size, date and attributes of each directory item, supports reading both .DSK and .DMK image files, and allows exporting TRS-80 files to the Windows file system.

Miguel lists each possible DOS for the TRS-80 and whether or not it is currently supported, with his ultimate goal being 100% of all OS’s.

Explanations and the program can be found on Miguel’s web site and on the TRS-80 Disk and Tape Conversion Utilities page.

February 3, 2009 – New DSK/DMK Utility – Emulator File Read and Copy

Ira — Tue, 03 Feb 2009 06:00:17 +0000

Phil Ereaut has released his Emulator File Read and Copy 2006 v3.1

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This program reads .Dsk files, and displays the disk filenames in a list box. Clicking on a file, allows the file to be saved to a PC folder. It can be used just to view the Files on a .Dsk, if you dont want to copy the files.

It doesn’t always work, but it has definitely helped me extract files from DSK images which the emulator would not recognize.

Download Emulator File Read and Copy 2006 v3.1 HERE