1.7.7

Dumping

• added separate column for sectors in the "Error" dialog,
• added warning that excluding a sector modifies the track,
• improved determination of "best revolution,"
• fixed exclusion of unknown sectors under Unknown DOS,
• fixed determination of an error can be accepted automatically.

Track Map

• added command to pause scanning,
• can now rescan a track even under known DOS.

Data mining

• fixed app crash on hardware error,
• fixed app crash due to flux buffer overrun.

Other

• improved opening of disks with unrecognized DOS,
• fixed working with Unicode chars,
• fixed compilation in newer Visual Studios,
• minor GUI improvements.

1.7.6.1

Flux devices (KF, GW, images)

• fixed working with 8 full revolutions ("Preservation Quality" now doesn't crash the app),
• added warning sign △ if "None, just flux archivation" selected as the Decoder,
• added option to set Medium manually if disk not recognized,
• added hyperlink in Device Access dialog to list sectors on physical Track 1,
• improved working with "events" (e.g. fuzzy regions) on a track (now much faster),
• improved medium type arbitration (now by scoring sectors).

Dumping

• fixed saving of raw-sectored images,
• added new options in Accept split-button,
• added checkbox to assure all standard sectors are present on source track,
• added checkbox to beep upon showing Sector Error dialog,
• improved constraints on Retrial and Mining,
• error recovery allowed also for raw-sectored images,
• improved reporting.

MS-DOS

• improved and fixed determination of empty space (no longer marks disk "dirty" even if no changes actually made),
• improved (speed) disk recognition.

Spectrum DOSes

• fixed drawing of UDG characters.

Other

• fixed working with Unicode characters,
• improved data mining,
• improved visuals on Windows Vista and newer,
• improved Donate toolbar button,
• improved and updated YAHEL.

1.7.5.2

• fixed track normalization,
• added checkbox to skip verification of sectors marked as "Bad" in FAT.

1.7.5

General

• Finished *.HFE Version 1 support,
• updated and fixed hexa-editor.

MS-DOS

• fixed working with "first empty cluster" information.

TR-DOS

• fixed retrieval of sector statuses.

All CAPS devices

• can now unscan (and mine) a modified track,
• fixed Disk Browser tab.

1.7.4

CAPS devices (incl. KryoFlux and GreaseWeazle)

• added read-only support for "HxC2001 Floppy Emulator" images (*.HFE),
• added support for Shugart bus and 3" drives,
• added checkbox for 40-track drives in "Flux device access options" dialog,
• fixed cooperation with legacy MFC (crash),
• fixed acceptance of last index pulse residing inside a non-formatted area.

Track Viewer

• fixed determination of track total time,
• fixed drawing of indices in tracks with non-formatted areas.

File Manager

• fixed placement of context menu,
• fixed visuals in "Compare Files" dialog,
• fixed visuals in FAT browser.

General

• added Microsoft "Distribution Media Format" (DMF) to MS-DOS format options,
• added progress-bar for automatic disk recognition.

1.7.3

General

• can now import/export to an open disk items with Unicode characters inside (but still cannot open images with Unicode characters inside!)
• fixed usage of YAHEL hexa-editor,
• fixed crash when File Manager receives bad file data,
• fixed mouse wheel in Track Editor,
• fixed missing support for track rescanning using internal FDC,
• improved name conflict resolution dialog.

MS-DOS

• fixed potential bug in working with long filenames,
• relaxed constraint on forbidden characters.

Spectrum DOSes

• can now edit non-printable characters in filenames in X mode using numeric keys,
• fixed working with Spectrum tape open via GDOS,
• fixed display of screen from a MDOS Snapshot file "*.S"
• improved presentation filenames.

1.7.2

Track Viewer

• added F1 shortcut to show keyboard hints,
• improved interaction (mouse wheel alone is now used for moving along the timeline, whereas in combination with CTRL for zooming),
• improved inspection evaluation by factoring in used encoding, not merely flux lengths.

Track Map

• added three new context-menu commands to (1) show low-level sector timing, (2) mine a track, and (3) rescan a track,
• fixed horizontal scrollbar.

Other

• added function to mine tracks by repeated reading,
• fixed "Calibrate and retry" button in dump error resolution dialog,
• fixed too short post-index gap in CAPS devices when formatting a disk with more than 11 sectors (e.g. HD media),
• fixes in hexa-editor.

1.7.1

Hexa-editor

• completely rewritten (now faster, fixed, better scalable, some new features),
• added simple file FAT-linkage browser.

DOSes

• added reusing of empty MS-DOS directory entries instead of allocating new ones,
• fixed MDOS export information clash with TR-DOS export information.

Others

• fixed low-level saving of empty tracks during dumping when Full track analysis is on,
• fixed recognition of 40-track 5.25" floppy in CAPS-based devices (KryoFlux, Streams, Greaseweazle, SCP),
• fixed crash when app's window too narrow,
• fixed repainting of tabs after saving (otherwise they are shown blank).

1.7

Greaseweazle V4

• added direct recognition, initialization, reading, writing, all without necessity of Python, running also on Windows XP!

KryoFlux

• added writing of non-formatted areas,
• added head calibration for bad tracks during dumping,
• added exporting of fluxes to text file (via TrackViewer from within Track Map tab),
• improved interaction in Settings dialog,
• fixed reading and writing of multiple packets,
• fixed saving of fresh formatted Stream files.

Hexa-editor instances

• added display of track timing under cursor, if low-level track information available (e.g. for KryoFlux or Greaseweazle),
• fixed menu memory leak.

Other

• improved reporting on unknown image to open or device to access,
• improved error messages during saving,
• improved speed of MDOS 2.0 recognition,
• fixed that some drives require motor to be on before seeking heads,
• fixed app hard-crash when insufficient amount of space on disk during image saving.

1.6.6

Formatting/unformatting

• Improved transparency of formatting/unformatting processes by listing actions being done with the disk,
• fixed registering of bad sectors in FAT when formatting cylinders.

Dumping

• added warning on data over index,
• added hexa-preview of bad data to Sector read error resolution dialog,
• added new information to final report,
• not finding a sector has now the highest priority in error detection.

KryoFlux and Stream files

• added cursor position indicators to flux Scatter Plot and Histogram charts,
• added "Advanced" and "Preservation" counts of revolutions to the Settings dialog,
• added RIDE signature to Stream files,
• fixed navigation to the first significant verification difference, rather then just the first difference,
• fixed recognition of double-distanced Stream files,
• fixed precompensation determination,
• fixed attempting to read a track after head calibration,
• fixed "Save as" command (for IPF, CT-RAW, Streams, and the device itself),
• disabled settings that don't make sense for Unknown DOS.

Internal FDD

• improved and fixed latency determination,
• fixed name in dump report,
• disabled settings that don't make sense for Unknown DOS.

Other

• added toolbar with miscellaneos commands,
• improved app recency reporting,
• fixed recognition of known image extensions,
• fixed thread synchronization in Track Map tab,
• fixed extraction of MS-DOS long name if containing sector is bad,
• minor GUI improvements.