russg Posted December 22, 2010 Share Posted December 22, 2010 I just checked Atarimania.com utilities for my favorite disk editor C.A.P. Disk Wizard II 2.5 and found Allenware Diswiz-II but not CAP. I've never heard of the Allenware one. Can anyone compare them? I definitely think CAP Disk Wizard should be at Atarimania. CAP Disk Wizard II 2.5 has sector editor, disk backup, disassembler, disk speed and works single or double density. It would be a shame if CAP DWII got lost because of the Allenware one, (my opinion). diskwzd.zip 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
+bob1200xl Posted December 22, 2010 Share Posted December 22, 2010 I am not familiar with the CAP DiskWizard, but I use Allenware DiskWiz all the time. It does SD and DD, edits in hex and character mode, searches, disassembles, and - great for those CF drives - it will read out to 32,000 sectors or some such. Never know when you might want to peek at sector 17,921...! Bob I just checked Atarimania.com utilities for my favorite disk editor C.A.P. Disk Wizard II 2.5 and found Allenware Diswiz-II but not CAP. I've never heard of the Allenware one. Can anyone compare them? I definitely think CAP Disk Wizard should be at Atarimania. CAP Disk Wizard II 2.5 has sector editor, disk backup, disassembler, disk speed and works single or double density. It would be a shame if CAP DWII got lost because of the Allenware one, (my opinion). Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
+therealbountybob Posted December 22, 2010 Share Posted December 22, 2010 Both versions and many other utilities can be found here http://pokeysoft.no/games/atari/a8util.htm Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
+Larry Posted December 22, 2010 Share Posted December 22, 2010 I have originals of each and I've always favored DiskWizard II because it could be converted fairly easily to a BLoad file that works well from a hard drive. I also always liked the straight-forward menu operation of DWII, even though it takes quite a few key strokes to perform most operations. BTW, Jerry Allen (DiskWizI/II) also wrote Macro Dos, a fairly early DUP.SYS "replacement" for Dos 2.0s that allowed instant access to most DUP operations without MEM.SAV or losing your BASIC program. It was published in COMPUTE!, June/July, 1984, and the source code was available for purchase from him. IIRC, he also wrote an 800 replacement OS for the XL/XE -- XLBOSS? -Larry I just checked Atarimania.com utilities for my favorite disk editor C.A.P. Disk Wizard II 2.5 and found Allenware Diswiz-II but not CAP. I've never heard of the Allenware one. Can anyone compare them? I definitely think CAP Disk Wizard should be at Atarimania. CAP Disk Wizard II 2.5 has sector editor, disk backup, disassembler, disk speed and works single or double density. It would be a shame if CAP DWII got lost because of the Allenware one, (my opinion). Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
+bob1200xl Posted December 22, 2010 Share Posted December 22, 2010 I can load DiskWiz from a hard drive (CF card). You're going to make me try Disk Wizard, aren't you... Bob I have originals of each and I've always favored DiskWizard II because it could be converted fairly easily to a BLoad file that works well from a hard drive. I also always liked the straight-forward menu operation of DWII, even though it takes quite a few key strokes to perform most operations. BTW, Jerry Allen (DiskWizI/II) also wrote Macro Dos, a fairly early DUP.SYS "replacement" for Dos 2.0s that allowed instant access to most DUP operations without MEM.SAV or losing your BASIC program. It was published in COMPUTE!, June/July, 1984, and the source code was available for purchase from him. IIRC, he also wrote an 800 replacement OS for the XL/XE -- XLBOSS? -Larry I just checked Atarimania.com utilities for my favorite disk editor C.A.P. Disk Wizard II 2.5 and found Allenware Diswiz-II but not CAP. I've never heard of the Allenware one. Can anyone compare them? I definitely think CAP Disk Wizard should be at Atarimania. CAP Disk Wizard II 2.5 has sector editor, disk backup, disassembler, disk speed and works single or double density. It would be a shame if CAP DWII got lost because of the Allenware one, (my opinion). Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
OldAtarian Posted December 22, 2010 Share Posted December 22, 2010 My copy was called Dark Wizard. Don't know who released it, though. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
russg Posted December 23, 2010 Author Share Posted December 23, 2010 Both versions and many other utilities can be found here http://pokeysoft.no/games/atari/a8util.htm On your site, I found disk doctor II, disk magic, diskey II, disk keeper II, disk hacker 2, several sector copiers, disk data, sector surgeon, disk copy and, yes, Disk Wizard II 2.1, but not diskwizII (Allenware). I would guess C.A.P. Disk Wizard II (2.5 I have) and Allenware DiskwizII are related somehow and very similar. Disk Wizard II 2.5 is the one I always used, it has a hex or ATASCII search feature also. Of course, I scrolled fast thru your site and may have passed Allenware DiskwizII. Since Bob1200XL uses Allenware, I would guess it is about the same as C.A.P., I don't know if there is a maximum sectors, never used it with a hard drive. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
russg Posted December 23, 2010 Author Share Posted December 23, 2010 My copy was called Dark Wizard. Don't know who released it, though. Ah, yes, another one. I can't find Dark Wizard, actually sounds more like a game than a disk utility, I think. I remember Wizard's Crown on the ST. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
charliecron Posted December 23, 2010 Share Posted December 23, 2010 I've just started going through a box of floppies I got off ebay, and just the other day came across a copy of this program, I've checked it and it is version 2.0. Checking through all the other dumps I have they are all v2.1, and yours is v2.5 (nice loading screen!). So anyway here is v2.0, oldie but goodie! Love the serial numbers on the title screen This program in one form or another is what I've used most for sector copying, but recently started using the Happy sector copier, nice and fast and supports ramdisk, can ignore errors and continue, quicker setup, but still like Disk Wizard and keep a copy on floppy handy. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
erazmus Posted March 19, 2011 Share Posted March 19, 2011 Anyone know if any disk duplication software can automatically detect the format (single/dual/double) of the source disk without having to manually pick it? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
+therealbountybob Posted March 19, 2011 Share Posted March 19, 2011 Anyone know if any disk duplication software can automatically detect the format (single/dual/double) of the source disk without having to manually pick it? MyCopyr2.1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Defender II Posted March 19, 2011 Share Posted March 19, 2011 Both versions and many other utilities can be found here http://pokeysoft.no/games/atari/a8util.htm Thanks for the link. Nice site, but the scrolling text over the stable background with pictures could be made easier to read. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
+Stephen Posted March 19, 2011 Share Posted March 19, 2011 Anyone know if any disk duplication software can automatically detect the format (single/dual/double) of the source disk without having to manually pick it? MyCopyr2.1 Copy 2000 is also a good one. Another great thing about that is it is perfectly capable of using PoKey divisor of 0 (6X read&write) as well as using extended RAM. My 320K machine can do single pass copies of DD disks. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
+wood_jl Posted March 20, 2011 Share Posted March 20, 2011 Anyone know if any disk duplication software can automatically detect the format (single/dual/double) of the source disk without having to manually pick it? MyCopyr2.1 Copy 2000 is also a good one. Another great thing about that is it is perfectly capable of using PoKey divisor of 0 (6X read&write) as well as using extended RAM. My 320K machine can do single pass copies of DD disks. That's especially impressive, considering those are double-density sectors behind every SIO beep. Question #1: Is that an LCD screen for the 8-bit? If so, how did you eliminate the vertical lines? Next Question: How does this speed compare to (1) Commodore 64's max floppy speed (obviously with the best Fastloader, as it wouldn't make sense to ask without), and (2) Apple II. The Apple II drives really seemed excellent (fast) to to me, despite my limited use of them. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
+Stephen Posted March 20, 2011 Share Posted March 20, 2011 That's especially impressive, considering those are double-density sectors behind every SIO beep. Question #1: Is that an LCD screen for the 8-bit? If so, how did you eliminate the vertical lines? Next Question: How does this speed compare to (1) Commodore 64's max floppy speed (obviously with the best Fastloader, as it wouldn't make sense to ask without), and (2) Apple II. The Apple II drives really seemed excellent (fast) to to me, despite my limited use of them. Yes - I am using a Dynex 22" 16:9 LCD. Unfortunately, when the Atari is hooked directly to it, the vertical banding is terrible. So, I am running the A8 through the VGA port on the Dynex. The signal is not properly de-interlaced, but the advantage is that the "flicker" modes do not. I honestly do not know what the max Commodore 1541 loading speed is. I believe with fast loaders, they can absolutely wipe the floor clean compared to our max SIO transfers. The only way to get truly impressive load speeds on our machine is to use a hard drive via the PBI. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
+bob1200xl Posted March 20, 2011 Share Posted March 20, 2011 Where can we get Copy 2000? Bob That's especially impressive, considering those are double-density sectors behind every SIO beep. Question #1: Is that an LCD screen for the 8-bit? If so, how did you eliminate the vertical lines? Next Question: How does this speed compare to (1) Commodore 64's max floppy speed (obviously with the best Fastloader, as it wouldn't make sense to ask without), and (2) Apple II. The Apple II drives really seemed excellent (fast) to to me, despite my limited use of them. Yes - I am using a Dynex 22" 16:9 LCD. Unfortunately, when the Atari is hooked directly to it, the vertical banding is terrible. So, I am running the A8 through the VGA port on the Dynex. The signal is not properly de-interlaced, but the advantage is that the "flicker" modes do not. I honestly do not know what the max Commodore 1541 loading speed is. I believe with fast loaders, they can absolutely wipe the floor clean compared to our max SIO transfers. The only way to get truly impressive load speeds on our machine is to use a hard drive via the PBI. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
+MrFish Posted March 20, 2011 Share Posted March 20, 2011 Where can we get Copy 2000? It's on this disk (from Holmes Archive): Copy Programs.atr 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
russg Posted March 20, 2011 Author Share Posted March 20, 2011 (edited) Anyone know if any disk duplication software can automatically detect the format (single/dual/double) of the source disk without having to manually pick it? MyCopyr2.1 Copy 2000 is also a good one. Another great thing about that is it is perfectly capable of using PoKey divisor of 0 (6X read&write) as well as using extended RAM. My 320K machine can do single pass copies of DD disks. I tried copy2000 which came from a SIO2PC.ZIP I had. It doesn't work in an emulator, at least I couldn't get it to in Atari800winplus 4. And it didn't recognize my Newell 256K upgrade, it only saw 55K, but it is nice and fast. I don't know how to change the source and destination drive numbers, tried CONSOL keys. Oh, what the hey. here's my copy. COPY2000.ZIP Edited March 20, 2011 by russg Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
+MrFish Posted March 10, 2017 Share Posted March 10, 2017 CAP Disk Wizard II 2.5 has sector editor, disk backup, disassembler, disk speed and works single or double density. Has the manual for this ever been scanned? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BillC Posted March 11, 2017 Share Posted March 11, 2017 I found Atariamania has scans of the Disk Wizard Release 1.1 manual, not Release 2 but may still be useful. http://www.atarimania.com/utility-atari-400-800-xl-xe-disk-wizard_29404.html Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
+MrFish Posted March 11, 2017 Share Posted March 11, 2017 I found Atariamania has scans of the Disk Wizard Release 1.1 manual, not Release 2 but may still be useful. http://www.atarimania.com/utility-atari-400-800-xl-xe-disk-wizard_29404.html Thanks, I already have that one. I was interested in putting 2.5 on my site. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
pixelmischief Posted March 12, 2017 Share Posted March 12, 2017 Disk Wizard II has always been my duplicator and sector editor of choice. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AtariGeezer Posted March 12, 2017 Share Posted March 12, 2017 Just checked what I have and it's the DiskWiz-II program, not Disk Wizard II... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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