LibDsk Change History

New in v1.2.1

Two new drivers added: Logical (like raw, but the tracks are arranged in logical filesystem order) and TeleDisk (read-only).

Bugfix to the CPCEMU driver when a sector is not found and the search has to start again at the beginning of a track.

Bugfix to the NTWDM driver when accessing sectors of nonstandard size.
Bugfix to the CPCEMU driver to return sector IDs in the correct sequence to dsk_trkids
SQ compression fixed not to leak file handles.

Bugfix in Linux floppy driver to fix spurious 'no data' errors reading 70-track Apricot discs.
Added a DOS build.
Added a new utility (apriboot) which converts the boot sector of a diskette between Apricot MS-DOS and normal PC-DOS format. dsktrans has been enhanced to do the same thing.
Added a new driver (int25) to the DOS version, allowing access to small hard drive partitions (and floppy drives on Apricot PCs).

A new 'ntwdm' driver. This is used in conjunction with Simon Owen's floppy filter driver to enable full LibDsk functionality on Windows 2000 / XP.
Also for Windows users: Source code is provided for a COM binding (using ATL) is provided, plus source code for an example Visual BASIC client.

A new 'rcpmfs' driver allows a directory on the host system to be presented as a CP/M-format disc image.
A new read-only driver for the CopyQM format (thanks to Per Ola Ingvarsson)
Disc geometries can now be defined in a text file rather than hardcoded.
Geometry autodetect supports BBC Master 512 DOS Plus 800k format.
Retry option was buggy in 1.1.1; corrected.
"-apricot" option in dsktrans, to convert an Apricot floppy into something that can be loopback-mounted under Linux.

The example utilities take parameters in any order.
Support has been added for the 400k disc images used by the NanoWasp emulator.
The 32-bit Windows library can use the 16-bit library for floppy disc access. This allows 32-bit LibDsk programs to read ADFS floppies, for example.