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CiderPress II Update
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fadden
Jul 12, 2023, 4:22:06 PM7/12/23
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I've published CiderPress II v0.2, which introduces a usable implementation of the Windows GUI interface. Now working: add, extract, view, delete, create directory, edit attributes, edit blocks/sectors. File viewer export and defaults-setting features now work.
There are still lots of core features missing, including most of the file viewer converters, but it's possible to get a feel for the new UI.
I put together a short (5 minute) demo of some key differences between the new GUI and the original CiderPress: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=esEHP6Bo8GI
No real changes to the command-line interface, though a few changes were made behind the scenes.
There are still lots of core features missing, including most of the file viewer converters, but it's possible to get a feel for the new UI.
I put together a short (5 minute) demo of some key differences between the new GUI and the original CiderPress: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=esEHP6Bo8GI
No real changes to the command-line interface, though a few changes were made behind the scenes.
magnusfalkirk
Jul 13, 2023, 11:29:42 AM7/13/23
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fadden
Aug 31, 2023, 2:43:23 PM8/31/23
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CiderPress II v0.3 is now available. Most of the effort was focused on disk images and filesystems. A five-minute demo of the GUI is available at https://youtu.be/5tE07owhcCc .
Summary of changes:
- Added commands: create disk image, create file archive.
- Added actions: test files, scan disk, save as disk, replace partition with disk image,
import, export, defragment.
- Added disk image formats: Trackstar, DiskCopy 4.2.
- Added multi-partition disk formats: MicroDrive, FocusDrive.
- Added filesystems: CP/M, Pascal, Gutenberg (read-only), MFS (read-only), RDOS (read-only).
- Added file archive format: MacBinary (read-only).
- Added access to removable media (with Admin privilege escalation).
- Added import/export conversion options editor.
- Added metadata editing.
- Updated sector editor.
- Various GUI improvements.
Documentation for the new items has been added to https://ciderpress2.com/doc-index.html .
Most of these were handled in the original CiderPress, but the new implementations are generally superior. DiskCopy is no longer limited to 800KB disks, Trackstar metadata can be edited, CP/M is read-write, RDOS disk recognition is better, etc.
The multi-disk catalog output should be fairly complete at this point. For a subset of the Asimov repository it generated 97MB of output with --depth=max. The listing can be downloaded from https://faddensoftware.com/asimov-mdc.zip (14MB)
Summary of changes:
- Added commands: create disk image, create file archive.
- Added actions: test files, scan disk, save as disk, replace partition with disk image,
import, export, defragment.
- Added disk image formats: Trackstar, DiskCopy 4.2.
- Added multi-partition disk formats: MicroDrive, FocusDrive.
- Added filesystems: CP/M, Pascal, Gutenberg (read-only), MFS (read-only), RDOS (read-only).
- Added file archive format: MacBinary (read-only).
- Added access to removable media (with Admin privilege escalation).
- Added import/export conversion options editor.
- Added metadata editing.
- Updated sector editor.
- Various GUI improvements.
Documentation for the new items has been added to https://ciderpress2.com/doc-index.html .
Most of these were handled in the original CiderPress, but the new implementations are generally superior. DiskCopy is no longer limited to 800KB disks, Trackstar metadata can be edited, CP/M is read-write, RDOS disk recognition is better, etc.
The multi-disk catalog output should be fairly complete at this point. For a subset of the Asimov repository it generated 97MB of output with --depth=max. The listing can be downloaded from https://faddensoftware.com/asimov-mdc.zip (14MB)
Polymorph
Sep 2, 2023, 1:26:33 AM9/2/23
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Cheers,
Mike
Brian Patrie
Sep 26, 2023, 12:08:28 AM9/26/23
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Out of curiosity, why aren't you simply calling it CiderPress 5?
fadden
Sep 26, 2023, 10:39:25 AM9/26/23
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On Monday, September 25, 2023 at 9:08:28 PM UTC-7, Brian Patrie wrote:
> Out of curiosity, why aren't you simply calling it CiderPress 5?
Because it's a rewrite from scratch, rather than an improved version, and there are differences in how they can be used. CiderPress is a Windows MFC app that can run in WINE on other systems, CiderPress II is a .NET app that (for now) has a Windows GUI and a broadly executable command-line interface. Explaining how to use them to somebody else is easier if the recipient doesn't need to know that everything changed in v5.
> Out of curiosity, why aren't you simply calling it CiderPress 5?
Besides, ciderpress2.com was available. :-)
The debate that I expect will engage scholars for generations is "CiderPress II" vs. "CiderPress 2" vs. "CiderPress ][".
Oliver Schmidt
Sep 26, 2023, 12:26:57 PM9/26/23
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Hi,
> The debate that I expect will engage scholars for generations is
> "CiderPress II" vs. "CiderPress 2" vs. "CiderPress ][".
... or "CiderPress //" ;-)
Regards,
Oliver
> The debate that I expect will engage scholars for generations is
> "CiderPress II" vs. "CiderPress 2" vs. "CiderPress ][".
Regards,
Oliver
Mike Spangler
Sep 26, 2023, 2:09:45 PM9/26/23
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Mike Spangler
Sep 26, 2023, 2:14:04 PM9/26/23
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On Tuesday, September 26, 2023 at 7:39:25 AM UTC-7, fadden wrote:
> Because it's a rewrite from scratch, rather than an improved version, and there are differences in how they can be used. CiderPress is a Windows MFC app that can run in WINE on other systems, CiderPress II is a .NET app that (for now) has a Windows GUI and a broadly executable command-line interface.
So does CiderPress II work under WINE? The way you wrote that it sounds like no. Windows is OS-non-grata in this house.
> Because it's a rewrite from scratch, rather than an improved version, and there are differences in how they can be used. CiderPress is a Windows MFC app that can run in WINE on other systems, CiderPress II is a .NET app that (for now) has a Windows GUI and a broadly executable command-line interface.
fadden
Sep 26, 2023, 2:31:21 PM9/26/23
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On Tuesday, September 26, 2023 at 11:14:04 AM UTC-7, Mike Spangler wrote:
> So does CiderPress II work under WINE? The way you wrote that it sounds like no. Windows is OS-non-grata in this house.
The command-line interface works under Mac OS and Linux as well as Windows. The CLI has roughly the same set of features as the GUI, including sector editing and file conversions.
> So does CiderPress II work under WINE? The way you wrote that it sounds like no. Windows is OS-non-grata in this house.
The GUI is currently a Windows WPF app. I don't believe it can work under WINE; .NET programs generally don't, and WPF almost certainly doesn't. The long-term goal is to switch to a platform-neutral GUI toolkit, which would allow it to run on any desktop system (and possibly elsewhere), but for a variety of reasons (noted here: https://github.com/fadden/ciderpress2#gui-tool-development) I'm doing v1.0 with WPF.
fadden
Nov 23, 2023, 7:21:20 PM11/23/23
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CiderPress II v0.4 is now available. The main changes were the introduction of drag & drop and development of a full set of file converters. A four-minute demo of the GUI is available at https://youtu.be/P2kss3aOEvs .
The drag & drop and copy & paste has been something I've wanted to do for a while. Microsoft didn't make it easy, but I think it came out pretty well.
The file conversions are equivalent or superior to those in the original CiderPress. One new addition is a hi-res font renderer. It takes a 768- or 1024-byte font file for the Apple II or Apple /// and generates a character grid bitmap.
I also added support for Pascal ProFile Manager, which is the thing that uses storage type 4 on a ProDOS disk. I found a sample that Willi Kusche uploaded a while back (
https://www.apple.asimov.net/images/programming/pascal/PDDISK29.ZIP ) and used that as a test case.
Documentation for the various "vintage" file formats can be found on https://ciderpress2.com/doc-index.html .
The drag & drop and copy & paste has been something I've wanted to do for a while. Microsoft didn't make it easy, but I think it came out pretty well.
The file conversions are equivalent or superior to those in the original CiderPress. One new addition is a hi-res font renderer. It takes a 768- or 1024-byte font file for the Apple II or Apple /// and generates a character grid bitmap.
I also added support for Pascal ProFile Manager, which is the thing that uses storage type 4 on a ProDOS disk. I found a sample that Willi Kusche uploaded a while back (
https://www.apple.asimov.net/images/programming/pascal/PDDISK29.ZIP ) and used that as a test case.
Documentation for the various "vintage" file formats can be found on https://ciderpress2.com/doc-index.html .
Bill Chatfield
Dec 2, 2023, 10:52:30 AM12/2/23
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On Thursday, November 23, 2023 at 7:21:20 PM UTC-5, fadden wrote:
> CiderPress II v0.4 is now available. The main changes were the introduction of drag & drop and development of a full set of file converters. A four-minute demo of the GUI is available at https://youtu.be
Here's a picture of it running in Wine on Fedora Linux:
> CiderPress II v0.4 is now available. The main changes were the introduction of drag & drop and development of a full set of file converters. A four-minute demo of the GUI is available at https://youtu.be
https://drive.google.com/file/d/1osMqS_mjZ84OEF-BBTq5GAFO0vTSErD2/view?usp=sharing
fadden
Dec 2, 2023, 11:15:30 AM12/2/23
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This suggests it might also be possible to run 6502bench on Mac/Linux, though that's using the older ".NET Framework" rather than the newer ".NET Core".
Bill Chatfield
Dec 2, 2023, 6:35:25 PM12/2/23
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fadden
Dec 16, 2023, 6:32:04 PM12/16/23
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CiderPress II v1.0.0-alpha1 is now available.
I've written documentation and tied up various loose ends, and am
declaring it to be feature-complete. Now it just needs somebody other
than me to give it some exercise. :-)
https://ciderpress2.com/
I've written documentation and tied up various loose ends, and am
declaring it to be feature-complete. Now it just needs somebody other
than me to give it some exercise. :-)
https://ciderpress2.com/
fadden
Dec 28, 2023, 1:27:49 PM12/28/23
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Oliver Schmidt
Dec 29, 2023, 5:11:19 AM12/29/23
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> CiderPress II v1.0 is now available.
1. Congrats!
2. Thanks :-)
Oliver
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