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July 23, 2011 – Guide to creating DSK and DMK images

Ira — Sun, 24 Jul 2011 01:12:52 +0000

July 23, 2011 – Guide to creating DSK and DMK images
For those of you new to emulation, Larry Kraemer has created a PDF guide on creating DMK and DSK images. It can be downloaded here.

June 28, 2011 – Updates to Matthew Reed’s DMK Utilities

Ira — Tue, 28 Jun 2011 14:25:53 +0000

June 28, 2011 – Updates to Matthew Reed’s DMK Utilities

Matthew Reed, author of the amazing TRS32 emulator, has updated his DMK and DSK Management Tools: TRSREAD / TRSWRITE (Command Line) to v1.29 and TRSTOOLS (GUI) to v1.06.

Changes:

			Fixed: Faulty format detection routine that was rejecting many NEWDOS/80 disks is now fixed
			Added: Read-only support for the most common Montezuma Micro and LNW80 CP/M formats
			Added: Read-only support for Color Computer RSDOS disks
			Changed: The file properties and disk properties dialog boxes now only show information pertaining to the file system

Links/Downloads:

Utility	Direct Download Link	Matthew Reed’s Page	TRS-80.com Page
————————-	—–	—–	—–
TRSTOOLS v1.06	Here	Here	Here
————————-	—–	—–	—–
TRSREAD and TRSWRITE v4.29	Here	Here	Here

June 1, 2011 – Updates to Matthew Reed’s DMK Utilities

Ira — Wed, 01 Jun 2011 15:16:28 +0000

June 1, 2011 – Updates to Matthew Reed’s DMK Utilities

For those of you tired of seeing endless numbers of scans, here is some big news.

As enthusiasts may know, Matthew Reed, author of the amazing TRS32 emulator, has been working on patching LDOS so that it can accept dates after 2012. A description of the problem and the technical solutions can be found at:

     Part 1 – LDOS and LS-DOS: 2012 and Beyond
     Part 2 – LDOS and LS-DOS: 2012 and Beyond – Technical Info
     Part 3 – LDOS and LS-DOS: 2012 and Beyond – A Solution

Matthew has just released the new version of TRSTools, which includes the feature to automatically patch LS-DOS/LDOS boot disks to extend their file dating capability to 2079. No separate date conversion step is necessary. Just load the (non-write-protected) LDOS 5.3.1 or LS-DOS 6.3.1 boot disk into TRSTools and allow it to patch the disk when it asks. The LDOS patches don’t take up any additional disk space and didn’t require getting rid of any file passwords. The new TRSTOOLS also [1] improves recognition of all three MULTIDOS date formats, [2] fixes a problem with reading from a heavily fragmented Model III TRSDOS dsk, and [3] added an option in the file viewer to switch to a hexadecimal view.

Matthew has also released updated versions of TRSREAD and TRSWRITE that can handle the new extended dating format.

Links/Downloads:

Utility	Direct Download Link	Matthew Reed’s Page	TRS-80.com Page
TRSTOOLS v1.05	Here	Here	Here
TRSREAD and TRSWRITE v4.28	Here	Here	Here

September 30, 2010 – Updates to Matthew Reed’s DMK Utilities

Ira — Thu, 30 Sep 2010 16:11:23 +0000

September 30, 2010 – Updates to Matthew Reed’s DMK Utilities
Matthew Reed has released:
•	v1.04 of Windows GUI DSK/DMK image utility TRSTOOLS; and
•	v4.27 of his TRSREAD and TRSWRITE command line utilities for TRS-80 virtual disks.

The changelog for both includes:
•	Improved viewing of MULTIDOS BASIC programs; and
•	Improved recognition of DOSPLUS and NEWDOS/80 disks.

The new versions can be downloaded from:
•	Matthew’s web site or
•	from the DSK and DMK Image Utilities page or
•	Direct Link for TRSTOOLS v1.04 and for TRSREAD and TRSWRITE v4.27.

August 14, 2010 – TRS-80 Virtual Floppy Disk Manager Updated

Ira — Sun, 15 Aug 2010 01:00:27 +0000

August 14, 2010 – TRS-80 Virtual Floppy Disk Manager Updated

Miguel Dutra has released v0.7 of his Command Line version of his Virtual Disk Manager utility for Windows. This is a small utility which allows you to access virtual TRS-80 disks at a file level, as if they were normal PC disks.

It appears that this utility can read all known TRS-80 DOS’s except for (1) CPM and (2) anything made by Percom.

Program can be found on Miguel’s web site, on the DSK and DMK Image Utilities page, or HERE for Command Line 0.7 and HERE for GUI 0.5.

The new version brings:

* CLI: Could not recognize the parameters “-td2″ and “-td3″
* CLI: Crashed when “-k” was used with long file names
* CLI: Internal Win2Trs routine generated some ill-formed file names
* CLI: Internal Dump routine now prints blanks instead of dots in the ASCII column data
* TRSDOS1: Caused an abrupt program termination when allocating granules
* TRSDOS3: Caused an abrupt program termination when allocating granules
* NEWDOS/80: Created files with less than the requested space
* NEWDOS/80: Improved disk compatibility through better PDRIVE handling
* DMK: Improved disk compatibility through better geometry detection and sector addressing
* Other: Granule allocation routines failed to properly determine the available disk space
* Other: Improved GetFileDate routines to get date values with as little modification as possible
* Other: Improved OS detection routines to reduce the number of wrong identifications

July 20, 2010 – TRS-80 Virtual Floppy Disk Manager Updated

Ira — Tue, 20 Jul 2010 14:13:51 +0000

July 20, 2010 – TRS-80 Virtual Floppy Disk Manager Updated

Miguel Dutra has released v0.6 of his Command Line version of his Virtual Disk Manager utility for Windows. This is a small utility which allows you to access virtual TRS-80 disks at a file level, as if they were normal PC disks.

It appears that this utility can read all known TRS-80 DOS’s except for (1) CPM and (2) anything made by Percom.

Explanations and the program can be found on Miguel’s web site, on the DSK and DMK Image Utilities page, or HERE.

The new version brings:

* Write-capable
* Fixed a bug which caused it to read an invalid sector when the file size exceeded one disk track.

April 28, 2010 – Update to TRSTOOLS DSK/DMK Import/Export Utility

Ira — Wed, 28 Apr 2010 14:25:00 +0000

April 28, 2010 – Update to TRSTOOLS DSK/DMK Import/Export Utility
Matthew Reed has released v1.03 of Windows GUI DSK/DMK image utility TRSTOOLS.
The changelog includes: Improved Windows 7 support in several areas Improved viewing CMD files on MULTIDOS disks Eliminated extraneous beep when viewing files under certain sound schemes
The new version can be downloaded from: Matthew’s web site or from the DSK and DMK Image Utilities page or This Direct Link.

March 31, 2010 – Update to TRSTOOLS DSK/DMK Import/Export Utility

Ira — Wed, 31 Mar 2010 15:36:59 +0000

March 31, 2010 – Update to TRSTOOLS DSK/DMK Import/Export Utility
Matthew Reed has released v1.02 of Windows GUI DSK/DMK image utility TRSTOOLS.
The changelog includes: Greatly improved the recognition of some marginal disk formats Added a new Z80 disassembly viewer as the default for CMD files Added the ability to switch between different file viewers Fixed the incorrect window sizes with larger DPI values Fixed the problem encountered when viewing blank binary files
The new version can be downloaded from: Matthew’s web site or from the DSK and DMK Image Utilities page or This Direct Link.

March 3, 2010 – New DSK/DMK Import/Export Utility

Ira — Thu, 04 Mar 2010 01:45:09 +0000

March 3, 2010 – New DSK/DMK Import/Export Utility

Matthew Reed has released his command line DSK/DMK image utility pair TRSREAD and TRSWRITE. They perform many of the same functions as TRSTools, only on the command line.

TRSREAD is a command line Windows program that can extract files from a TRS-80 virtual disk, with optional flags for including “S”ystem files and “I”nvisible files. You can use wildcards or a list of files you want to extract

TRSWRITE is a command line Windows program that copies files onto TRS-80 virtual disk files.

TRSREAD and TRSWRITE can be downloaded from Matthew Reed’s TRSREAD/TRSWRITE Page.

February 17, 2010 – Update to TRSTOOLS

Ira — Wed, 17 Feb 2010 19:38:54 +0000

February 17, 2010 – Update to TRSTOOLS
TRSTools is a utility written by Matthew Reed that makes it easier to work with virtual disk images. Matthew has updated his TRSTOOLS utility to v1.01. The new version supports emulated hard drives as well as incorporates bug fixes.
The changelog includes: Added support for virtual hard disks in both LDOS and NEWDOS/80 formats Greatly improved the NEWDOS/80 support Improved the recognition of marginal disk formats Added the ability to view EDTASM source files Created a new format for TRS-80 memory card interfaces and added support for it within TRSTools
The new version can be downloaded from: Matthew’s web site or from the DSK and DMK Image Utilities page or This Direct Link.