New version of altairdsk available

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phatchman
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New version of altairdsk available

Post by phatchman »

Hi All,

A few years ago, I released a command line utility to read, write and format Altair CP/M formatted floppy and hard disk images. It's similar to cpmtools except that it actually works with Altair floppy disks and their weird 137 byte sectors.

I've re-written this tool in the Zig programming language and as a bonus, a graphical user interface is now included. If you'd like to try it out the source code, build instructions etc are available under the "experimental" branch at https://github.com/phatchman/altair_tools. If you just want the binaries, you can grab those from https://github.com/phatchman/altair_tools/releases.

The release has binaries for most operating systems and architectures, but I can only provide GUI binaries for Windows and Linux x86_64 right now. The GUI should build for any architecture that supports SDL2. It should build fine for MacOS and I'd be interested if anyone gets it running on one. Please send me a screen-shot and let me know how it went.

The GUI needs a little more polishing, but I've been using it regularly without many issues. Just keep in mind, this is a "beta" release, so make sure you backup anything important before you use this. Happy to hear issues or suggestions either here or on github.

Cheers,

Paul.

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Wayne Parham
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Re: New version of altairdsk available

Post by Wayne Parham »

Very cool, thanks!
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