CiderPress v1.2.4 released

[Andy McFadden <fadden@fadden.com>]

faddenSoft CiderPress v1.2.4 is now available, with some minor enhancements.

Creation of DiskCopy 4.2 images is now closer to what DiskCopy does.  It's
now possible to take DiskCopy images from Apple II FTP sites, convert them
to 2img and back to DiskCopy, and have the result be an exact binary match
of the original.

I fixed a bug in the RDOS disk detection that was causing some flavors of
RDOS to be unrecognizable.

The latest version of NufxLib (v2.0.2) is included in the install package.

For the curious, the changes made to DiskCopy handling were:

 - ProDOS volume names are now stored in the DC42 header.  All disks used
   to just get the "-not a Macintosh disk" treatment.
 - When the "-not a Macintosh disk" string is used in the label, the
   length byte for the string is incremented by one.  There's no good
   reason for this, it's just the way DiskCopy seems to work.
 - UNIDOS disk images (two 400K DOS volumes on a 3.5" disk) were being
   stored with DOS sector ordering rather than ProDOS.  CiderPress now
   matches this behavior.
 - DiskCopy adds an optional "tag" section with an extra 12 bytes for
   every 512-byte block.  CiderPress now does this, adding 19200 zero
   bytes to the end of each file.
 - The above changes are supported by the disk conversion and "bulk"
   disk conversion tools.


For anyone not familiar with the product: CiderPress is like a "ShrinkIt
for Windows" on steroids.  It offers full access to ShrinkIt archives,
and allows you to view and extract files directly out of disk images, as
well as create ProDOS disk images.  File converters translate programs,
documents, and graphics files into formats easily accessible under Windows
and other systems.  Disk images can be converted between several different
formats.

CiderPress is shareware, with an $8.95 registration cost.  After 30 days
it must be registered.

Visit http://www.faddensoft.com/ for a full feature list and screen shots.
The download comes with MDC (Multi-Disk Catalog), a free utility (no
registration required) for generating searchable file listings from a
large set of disk images.

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