Minipix DOS33 and ProDOS disks 1-3 now ALL available

[Bill Buckels <bbuckels@escape.ca>]

I have updated MiniPix.zip on my website.

http://www.clipshop.ca/DiskImages/MiniPix.zip

I have added the Apple II DOS 3.3 versions to the ProDOS versionns and
also my utility Mini2Rag which is a ProDOS program for viewing and
converting Minipix of both the "Old" and "New" PrintShop varieties to
the Native Mode .RAG format that I use in the AppleX Aztec-C
environment. Source is included.

http://www.clipshop.ca/DiskImages/MiniPix.zip

If you have downloaded the version before this please download the
latest version. It has much more.

Here's how this happened (please read my previous posts on Minipix for
the rest of the story:

Update May 2008

How I reconstructed Minipix Disks 2 and 3 Apple DOS 3.3 Versions

Shortly after I uploaded my announcement about the ProDOS versionsof
Minipix Disks 1-3 I received an email from "RedskullDC" and attached
to the email was a Disk Image of Disk 1 of the DOS 3.3 Version of
MiniPix.

So I again got busy and modified the Dat2Mini program ever so slightly
to recreate the proper file names that the DOS 3.3 Version uses for
Minipix. Unlike the ProDOS version which provided the Minipix as
BSaved Images, the DOS 3.3 Version provided these as individual
Minipix. I have no idea why this difference.

So I reconstructed the DOS 3.3 Diskimages using Apple II Oasis
entirely. I first tried CiderPress, but the file attributes couldn't
be preserved en-masse. But I was delighted that Apple II Oasis did the
whole job without running out of space after I deleted the files that
I wanted to replace (It had space problems on the ProDOS version which
is why I used CiderPress which has a replace function unlike Apple II
Oasis.)

Anyway, I recreated the title screens by combining the converted
screens for Minipix that come with my ClipShop Utility with the
converted screens from the version that Red had sent. The results
again are pretty accurate as was the ProDOS conversion process.

You now have all the Minipix disks available that I am aware of the
Beagles ever producing (keeping in mind that disks 2 and 3 are
reconstructed versions but they will do until the real ones come
along).

You also have the Mini2Rag utility and project complete with source
code which will show you how to load your own MiniPix and RAG image
fragments in an Aztec C program. You can also simply use this as a
MiniPix viewer if you so desire.

Have Fun!

Bill Buckels
bbuckels@mts.net