Farb Posted February 12, 2012 Share Posted February 12, 2012 (edited) In the course of reverse-engineering / understanding the PRO and ATX disk formats, I wrote a program that allows me to view sector data and get a visual representation of a disk's sector map. It currently supports SD ATR/PRO/ATX images. If anyone feels they might benefit from it's use, just say so and I'll clean it up and release it. It's written in Java so I could create application bundles for Mac and Windows. Edited February 12, 2012 by Farb 4 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rybags Posted February 12, 2012 Share Posted February 12, 2012 Looks good - how about non-Dos images though, it'd be handy to have the option to turn off any file-system processing. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Farb Posted February 12, 2012 Author Share Posted February 12, 2012 What do you mean by a non-DOS image? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rybags Posted February 12, 2012 Share Posted February 12, 2012 You said "... get a visual representation of a disk's sector map" - I assumed you're doing some sort of VTOC map processing or something? Non-Dos = most original game disks, so you'd not want to make any assumptions about data structures being present, sometimes including the boot record. Add a disassembler and you might have a killer app. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Farb Posted February 12, 2012 Author Share Posted February 12, 2012 You said "... get a visual representation of a disk's sector map" - I assumed you're doing some sort of VTOC map processing or something? Ah, what I meant by "sector map" is simply a visual representation of all sector statuses (e.g. good, empty, bad, duplicate, missing). Bad choice of terms... it doesn't try to make sense of the data on the disk. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Foster Posted February 12, 2012 Share Posted February 12, 2012 Nice work Farb! I'd be interested in using it. ... Foster Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Defender II Posted February 13, 2012 Share Posted February 13, 2012 (edited) Great idea! I'd like it too. Windows version. Can you add the option to view two disks side by side for comparison? Edited February 13, 2012 by Defender II Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
+CyranoJ Posted February 13, 2012 Share Posted February 13, 2012 Great idea! I'd like it too. Windows version. Can you add the option to view two disks side by side for comparison? Run it twice? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Defender II Posted February 13, 2012 Share Posted February 13, 2012 Great idea! I'd like it too. Windows version. Can you add the option to view two disks side by side for comparison? Run it twice? I want them to scroll simultaneously. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Farb Posted February 14, 2012 Author Share Posted February 14, 2012 Nice work Farb! I'd be interested in using it. Great idea! I'd like it too. Windows version. Cool, I'll work on getting it a little more polished and release it. Can you add the option to view two disks side by side for comparison? Perhaps. At the moment, I want to improve ATX support in SIO2Arduino (which is one of the reasons I wrote the disk browser in the first place). 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Foster Posted February 14, 2012 Share Posted February 14, 2012 Great to hear! I look forward to giving it a go. ... Foster Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Farb Posted February 14, 2012 Author Share Posted February 14, 2012 Here's the download link: http://www.whizzosoftware.com/forums/files/category/19-applications/ Make sure you have Java 1.6 installed before running. 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
krupkaj Posted February 14, 2012 Share Posted February 14, 2012 I have just tried it with the original SDRIVE.ATR image (medium density) and it writes: "Invalid or unsupported ATR file." I have Java 1.6.0_26 installed. Is the medium format unsupported (yet) or I do something wrong? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Roydea6 Posted February 14, 2012 Share Posted February 14, 2012 Tested ok with 90k diskette atr's. Tested ok with ATX files. Tested ok with PRO files. other size atr's not recognized. +1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rybags Posted February 14, 2012 Share Posted February 14, 2012 Suggestion - maybe provide an option to view raw data, with optional "ignore xxx bytes from start" Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Farb Posted February 14, 2012 Author Share Posted February 14, 2012 I have just tried it with the original SDRIVE.ATR image (medium density) and it writes: "Invalid or unsupported ATR file." I have Java 1.6.0_26 installed. Is the medium format unsupported (yet) or I do something wrong? Correct, as mentioned in the first post it only supports SD images at the moment. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
+Larry Posted February 15, 2012 Share Posted February 15, 2012 Since my PC monitor is also my Atari display device, my PC is always active with the Atari. So I find these "Win-Tools" very, very handy to take a quick look at an image. Very nice! -Larry Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Foster Posted February 16, 2012 Share Posted February 16, 2012 Really nice program Farb! Never was there a simpler way to browse the sector data of Atari disk images. Thanks for sharing. ... Steve Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Farb Posted February 17, 2012 Author Share Posted February 17, 2012 Very nice! Really nice program Farb! Never was there a simpler way to browse the sector data of Atari disk images. Thanks for sharing. I'm glad you guys like it. I'm working on adding a save capability so it can be used as a file converter. It's been interesting to convert some ATX images to PRO and have them work :-) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
www.atarimania.com Posted February 17, 2012 Share Posted February 17, 2012 Thanks! -- Atari Frog http://www.atarimania.com Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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