New altairdsk and adgui release

[Paul Hatchman]

Hi All,

I've just put up a new major release of these tools. For those who are unfamiliar, they allow you to open various Altair disk images to get a directory listing, copy files to/from the image, format new images and many more things from Windows, MacOS, Linux.

adgui provides a nicer user-interface to the altairdsk functionality. Binaries are provided for Windows, MacOS and Linux. Except the GUI version for MacOS, which must be built from source as I can't currently provide a pre-built version.

This is a rather large release. See the Release Notes for more information. But a few of the highlights:

* Now supports ALL disk images shipped with the Altair Duino.

* New operating systems: Altair DOS & Basic, HD BASIC, CDOS, Timeshare Basic
* New disk formats: 5.25" and 8" Cromemco formats, MITS 5.25" "MINI" Format
* Encoded BASIC file to ASCII file conversion, meaning you can copy BASIC files off disks as normal editable text files.

* Support for disk / volume labels for CDOS and HD_BASIC

* Major automated testing improvements giving us bit-for-bit compatibility with the real hardware/operating systems for most disk operations and formats.

You can get the latest pre-built version from: Release Altair tools version 0.10.0 · phatchman/altair_tools. I'd also recommend you check out the README.md and   ADGUI.md to see all the features available.


Best,

Paul Hatchman

[Semper Talis]

Hi,

thanks for the update .

I just downloaded it and a remark from a OSX user.

The binary is not executable , so you have to go into the Terminal (or do it from the GUI) and change the permissions to executable.

In the terminal I do "chmod 755 altairdsk" and you can run it then . 

BTW, for all OSX users, remember you have to give the first time permission to run the program under the "Privacy & Security" settings in the system settings.

Scroll down to "Security" and confirm "Open Anyway" when the system is bugging you about software from an unknown developer.

Here is a GUI build on a Mac with M3 Processor :

*&%@ Sorry I can't post a zip file 

If someone tell me please how I can make the file availiable 

If there is interest , I can try to build it on older Mac with Intel or ARM processor as well.

Just let me know

[villa...@gmail.com]

Very nice adgui and some good enhancements. I will try and give it a 'workout', time permitting, over the weekend

Colin

[Paul Hatchman]

I'll see what I can do a about setting the executable bit. I cross compile everything from Windows, so not sure if there is a solution.

I've got 2 potential enhancements for the gui listed as issues on github. 

1) A disk image visualizer / formatter.

2) A searchable catalog.

And there are a few more obscure formats on deramp to support.

If anyone has a preference or ideas to throw in the mix, feel free to comment here or on github.