New Atari Disk Image Tool

[DanBoris]

A long time ago I had dumped a bunch of my old Atari 8-bit disks, but at the time I couldn't find a tool I really liked for exploring the content of these images, so I decided to write my own tool. Over time, as I got into other 8-bit related projects I added more features to the tool as I needed them and at some point porting it from the original VB.NET to C#. Eventually I realized that I had taken this tool so far that other people might find it useful so I decided to clean it up and make it into something I could release. By other reason for releasing this is to also provide a .NET library for Atari disk manipulation that others could use to create their own tools. To that end I built the tool with all the disk images code in a separate library and am releasing the full source under the GPL 3 license.

 

If anyone finds and problems or wants to suggest features please let me know. Here are some of the features if currently supports:

 

• Supports XFD and ATR disk image formats
• Supports DOS 2.0, DOS 2.5 and MegaImage file systems
• View boot sector details and disassmbly
• View sector data in ATASCII format
• View disk directory even for disks with non-standard directory location
• Add, delete and extract files from a disk, including extraction of all files at one time
• View file contents in Hex or ATASCII
• De-tokenize Basic files with ATASCII display, and extract in ASCII formats. Handles some forms of Basic file protection
• View Syn Assembler files
• View the sector map of a DOS disk
• View the boot record of a disk along with the dis-assembly of the boot code

You can download the installer and source herE:

 

http://atarihq.com/danb/atari8bit.shtml

[fujidude]

Dan, thanks for your efforts and for sharing this with the community. I'm not sure when I'll get around to trying to crack disks, but I'm adding this to my toolbox. Thanks again.

[Bunsen]

Great tool!

 

Some thinks you could add:

- rename files

- print directory (or let me copy & paste it)

- change sectors

[evilmoo]

I stumbled across something similar a couple of days ago, but it was for the Apple II:

 

http://a2ciderpress.com/

 

I was just thinking the Atari could use a tool like this.

[+MrFish]

I stumbled across something similar a couple of days ago, but it was for the Apple II:

 

http://a2ciderpress.com/

 

I was just thinking the Atari could use a tool like this.

 

I was using that too, a few months back. Has some nice features.