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- ø MakeDisk v1.4 ø
- ø Copyright (c) Darren Birks 1997. ø
- ø email: darren.birks@virgin.net ø
- ø WWW: http://www.fatal.net/makedisk ø
- ø 28th December 1997. ø
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- What is MakeDisk :
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- MakeDisk is a freeware disk image utility which creates image files of
- Atari ST disks. These images can be used with Atari ST emulators such
- as PaCifiST, by Frederic Gidouin and WinSTon by Paul Bates. It can read
- almost all Atari disks including disks with more than the conventional
- 79 tracks and 9 sectors.
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- MakeDisk can also write disk image files back to disks. If the disk is
- not formatted to the same number of tracks, sectors and sides as the
- original disks then it is reformatted. This means that all the disk images
- found on the Internet can be converted back to disk which you can boot up
- in a real Atari ST.
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- MakeDisk can even create blank images which PaCifiST and WinSTon can write
- to. These images can be upto any size (within reason). Be warned though,
- if you wish to write the images back to real floppy disks you should not use
- more that 82 tracks and 10 sectors with 2 sides as these will not write
- correctly to standard double density floppy disks.
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- The last feature of MakeDisk is the ability to clean disk images. This
- replaces the boot sector of disk images and replaces it with a blank boot
- sector. Use this to remove virus's and anti-virus's which are imcompatible
- with the Emulator you are using.
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- Image Formats Supported: [*NEW in v1.4*]
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- Since v1.4, MakeDisk supports two types of image files. The original (.ST)
- files were just uncompressed copies of all tracks in logical order. PaCifiST
- also supports images created with the Magic Shadow Archiver (.MSA). These
- images are compressed and need to be unpacked before been read from or
- written to. When writing images back to disks, MakeDisk will examine the image and decide
- for itself if the image is a compressed MSA file or an uncompressed .ST file.
- When reading images from disks, MakeDisk will assume you want to create an
- uncompressed .ST file unless you specify the /MSA paramater.
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- Usage Examples :
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- MAKEDISK /READ DISKD.ST /AUTO
- MAKEDISK /READ DISKD.ST /TRACK 80 /SECTOR 10 /SIDE 2
- MAKEDISK /READ DISKD.ST /AUTO /MSA
- MAKEDISK /READ DISKD.ST /AUTO /SLOW
- MAKEDISK /WRITE DISKD.ST /AUTO
- MAKEDISK /WRITE DISKD.ST /TRACK 80 /SECTOR 10 /SIDE 2
- MAKEDISK /WRITE DISKD.ST /FORMAT
- MAKEDISK CREATE DISK.ST /AUTO
- MAKEDISK CREATE DISK.ST /TRACK 80 /SECTOR 10 /SIDE 2
- MAKEDISK CLEAN DISK.ST /AUTO
- MAKEDISK CLEAN DISK.ST /TRACK 80 /SECTOR 10 /SIDE 2
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- Credits :
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- Thanks must go to the following people:
- - Frederic Gidouin for creating PaCifiST, The BEST Atari ST Emulator
- available for the PC.
- http://pacifist.fatal-design.com
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- - Rich Davey for hosting the MakeDisk home page on the Fatal Design
- server. Visit his site, the Little Green Desktop. It's AWESOME!
- http://lgd.fatal-design.com
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- - Jonathan McHugh for supporting MakeDisk in PacifiGUI, His Win95 frontend
- for PaCifiST. Download a copy now! You will wonder how you ever managed
- without it.
- http://www.mchugh1.demon.co.uk
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- - Andreas Muegge for supporting MakeDisk in PaCifiST Dragon, another cool
- graphical frontend for PaCifiST.
- http://www.geocities.com/SiliconValley/Horizon/2361
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- - Matt Sephton for creating the animated MakeDisk gif file used on the
- MakeDisk Home Page. Visit his Pompey Pirate Tribute Page.
- http://www.csc.liv.ac.uk/~u5ms/pp
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- - Anyone else who included a link to the MakeDisk Home Page!
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