2008-01-23 John Elliott
* libdsk-1.2.1 released.
2008-01-19 Sven Klose
* Corrected a compilation problem on FreeBSD.
2008-01-12 John Elliott
* Corrected a bug which caused rcpmfs to give 'overrun' errors
when emulating a CP/M 2 filesystem.
2007-12-17 John Elliott
* libdsk-1.2.0 released.
2007-12-10 John Elliott
* Removed O_CREAT from attempts to open serial ports.
* For some reason I commented out the ibm320 format between
libdsk-1.1.2 and libdsk-1.1.3. Can't think why. Uncommented it.
* Removed a couple of C99 style comments (//) which prevented
compilation on really old gcc versions.
2007-07-27 John Elliott
* libdsk-1.1.14 released.
2007-06-11 Stuart Brady
* Added a new geometry (FMT_TRDOS640).
2007-06-10 John Elliott
* Updated the DOS and Windows projects with the new drivers
(the Teledisk one didn't compile under Win16).
2007-06-09 John Elliott
* libdsk-1.1.13 released.
* New driver: Logical. This is a raw disc image as generated by
'dsktrans -logical'; that is, it is arranged in logical sector order
rather than SIDES_ALT order. Useful for dealing with raw disc images
that were dumped in logical order.
* dsktrans: The -logical option has accordingly been deprecated,
since '-otype logical' should have the same effect.
2007-06-02 John Elliott
* New driver: Teledisk, based on the file format documentation at
<http://www.fpns.net/willy/wteledsk.htm>. This driver is read-only.
No code from WTELEDSK has been used, because it's GPLed rather than
LGPLed.
2006-11-18 John Elliott
* libdsk-1.1.12 released.
2006-08-02 John Elliott
* cpcemu driver: Bug fix when a sector is not found and it has
to start searching again at the beginning of the track.
2006-07-23 John Elliott
* libdsk-1.1.11 released.
2006-07-02 Ramlaid <www.ramlaid.com>
* cpcemu driver: Modified so that the dsk_trkids() function more
accurately reflects the result from a real disk. Also exposed the
ST0-ST3 registers.
* SQ compression: Doesn't leak file handles if file not compressed.
* NTWDM driver: Uses the passed sector size in dsk_xread / dsk_xwrite
rather than the sector size in the geometry structure.
2006-04-18 John Elliott
* libdsk-1.1.10 released.
2006-04-11 John Elliott
* Extended the Apricot -> PCDOS boot sector conversion code to save
a copy of the original boot sector.
* Created a reverse conversion, PCDOS -> Apricot
* dsktrans: The -apricot option now converts *to* Apricot format,
not *from*. A -pcdos option has been added to convert from Apricot
to PCDOS format.
* A new utility, apriboot, just rewrites the boot sector in place.
2006-04-07 John Elliott
* Made a start on a driver for Apricot MS-DOS.
2006-04-01 John Elliott
* Corrected a problem in the Linux floppy driver that caused 'no data'
errors reading 70-track Apricot discs if the geometry was probed
automatically.
2006-01-21 John Elliott
* libdsk-1.1.9 released.
2006-01-18 John Elliott
* Expanded dskutil with the ability to read and write data.
2005-12-26 John Elliott
* Bugfix: The rcpmfs driver was conflating User 1 and User 0.
2005-12-17 John Elliott
* libdsk-1.1.8 released.
* Added the myz80 geometry as one of the standard geometries,
so that rcpmfs can present drives in the myz80 format.
2005-12-07 John Elliott
* Updated the ApriDisk driver to support an extra block type, which
I hypothesize to be the name of the utility that created the disk
image.
2005-12-05 John Elliott
* Modified the rcpmfs driver to accept SysTracks=0 as a valid
parameter, rather than ignoring it silently.
2005-11-18 John Elliott
* libdsk-1.1.7 released.
2005-11-13 John Elliott
* Added support for reading DSK files created with Simon Owen's
'weak/random data' extension.
* Created dskutil, a simple interactive program allowing arbitrary
sectors to be read. Used to test the weak/random data extension
above.
* Added code to rcpmfs to deal with file truncation.
2005-09-03 John Elliott
* libdsk-1.1.6 released.
* Bug fix: Don't leak file handles in drvcpcem.c.
2005-07-21 John Elliott
* Fixed the '-logical' option in dsktrans so it doesn't fall over
with "bad parameter" errors.
* libdskrc parser now understands 'sides' and 'sidedness' for
the how-to-treat-sidedness parameter.
2005-07-03 John Elliott
* libdsk-1.1.5 released.
2005-06-28 Daniel Black
* Corrected an install bug in Makefile.am
2005-06-14 John Elliott
* Added guard code against a buffer overrun in the DSK driver
(if an attempt is made to format a track with more than 29 sectors)
* Serial remote drivers and standalone serslave written for Linux,
Win32, DOS16, DOS32 (DOS32 untested).
2005-06-14 John Elliott
* Corrected a bug in the Linux and NTWDM drivers - dsk_xread was
failing when the sector size passed in did not match the sector
size in the geometry structure.
* Added dskdump and dskscan to the list of utilities that get
installed.
* dskid(1) allows multiple arguments.
2005-05-10 John Elliott
* Started expanding the internal 'RPC' system to support operation
over serial lines.
2005-03-14 John Elliott
* libdsk-1.1.4 released.
* Added dsk_{p,l}trkids() and dsk_rtread() functions.
* Added COM bindings (Windows version).
2005-02-28 Simon Owen
* Added ntwdm driver.
2005-02-19 Philip Kendall
* Added dsk_dirty() function.
2005-01-26 John Elliott
* libdsk-1.1.3 released.
2005-01-25 John Elliott
* Merged CopyQM format documentation from Per Ola Ingvarsson.
2005-01-21 John Elliott
* dsk_getgeom refactored so that drivers can call the default
guesser and then override individual fields.
* dsk_getgeom also supports detection of BBC Master 512 DOS Plus
format, which is like acorn800 but has 1-based sector numbers.
* CPCEMU read and write now use the passed sector size, not the
size in the geometry structure.
* Merged a read-only CopyQM driver from Per Ola Ingvarsson.
2005-01-18 John Elliott
* Updated ApriDisk driver and apridisk.html with the official
ApriDisk format definitions.
* Continued knocking rcpmfs into shape.
* Added -apricot, -noformat, -first and -last options to dsktrans.
Fixed the -retry option in dsktrans so the default is 1 and not
MAXINT.
2005-01-16 John Elliott
* Updated dg_aprigeom() to use sector size in the Apricot
superblock.
2005-01-03 John Elliott
* LibDsk now loads format definitions from a libdskrc file, allowing
user-defined formats.
* Created an experimental rcpmfs driver which presents a filesystem
directory as a CP/M disk image.
2004-03-27 John Elliott
* v1.1.2 release.
2003-01-11 John Elliott
* Added support for density and recording mode to the DSK and
extended DSK file formats. See appendix C of the documentation
for the details of this.
2003-08-13 John Elliott
* v1.1.1 release.
2003-08-13 John Elliott
* Added dsk_set_retry() and dsk_get_retry() so that LibDsk can
automatically retry reads/writes.
* Added double-stepping support to the Linux floppy driver, thus
allowing 360k floppies to be imaged in 1.2Mb drives.
2003-02-13 John Elliott
* Added a driver for the 'apridisk' disc image format.
* Added support for comments in disc images.
* Added functions for LibDsk to display messages during lengthy
operations.
2003-01-13 John Elliott
* v1.1.0 release.
* Added a mini-RPC system to allow 32-bit Windows applications to use
the more capable 16-bit floppy API.
* The 16-bit DLL is now called LIBDSK16.DLL, so it can be installed in
the same directory as the 32-bit DLL.
* Added a driver for the 'nanowasp' disc image format.
* Removed constraints on the parameter order of the example utilities.
2002-12-16 John Elliott
* v1.0.0 release.
* Minor portability fixes.
* DOS16 and Win16 drivers retry three times; this avoids "Disc changed"
errors on drives that are slow to spin up.
2002-12-01 John Elliott
* v0.9.9 release.
* Projects provided to build LibDsk under 16-bit Windows and DOS;
bug fixes in the .DSK driver to work correctly on a 16-bit compiler
(CFI won't work on 16-bit DOS, except for very small images).
* Drivers added for the Win16, DOS16 and DOS32 architectures. There
may be a case for combining the source files for Win16 and DOS16 as
they are quite similar.
* Previous MYZ80 bugfix was faulty. Corrected.
2002-11-18 John Elliott
* v0.9.5 release.
* MicroDesign serial numbers can be read or altered by md3serial
* Bug fix in the posix driver; when sectors are written beyond the
end of the file, the gap is filled with 0xE5 rather than leaving the
OS to decide what goes there.
* Similar bug fix in the myz80 driver.
2002-04-27 John Elliott
* v0.9.1 release.
* Squeeze compression rewritten from scratch to avoid a possible
licence conflict.
2002-04-10 John Elliott
* v0.9.0 release.
* IMPORTANT CHANGES: This release breaks backward compatibility in a
number of ways. Most importantly, you must replace "DSK_DRIVER *"
with "DSK_PDRIVER " throughout your programs.
* Support for reading/writing deleted data (DSK and Linux floppy
only; other formats do not support marking data as deleted).
* DSK files in the extended CPCEMU format now have their own file
type - "edsk". This means that extended DSK files can be created
using LibDsk.
* Bug fixes in the extended DSK format handler (Thierry Jouin).
* Transparent compression layer added, supporting Squeeze, GZip
and BZip2 (read only).
* Special-case DQK driver removed; the standard CPCEMU driver +
the compression layer can now handle this case.
* BBC Micro DFS formats added to the list of built-in formats, and
to the geometry probe.
* Bugfix in the Linux floppy driver so that discs with FM encoding
can be read (requires a suitable floppy controller and drive).
2002-04-06 John Elliott
* v0.8.2 release.
* New driver added: .DQK (.DSK compressed using Squeeze compression).
* XCF2 200k format added to the list of built-in formats.
* Darren Salt's manual pages added to the distribution.
2002-02-25 John Elliott
* v0.8.0 release.
* Support added for Java Native Interface bindings (requires JDK
v1.1 or later). Use ./configure --with-jni to build them.
* Java versions of dskid, dskform and dsktrans added.
2002-02-07 John Elliott
* v0.7.0 release.
* Support added for .CFI format (a strange format used by Cliff
Lawson to distribute Amstrad PC boot floppies).
* Bug fixes in the example utilities (Darren Salt).
* dsktrans includes a -format option to use a built-in geometry
rather than trying to probe it from the disc.
* PCW 800k format added to list of builtin formats.
2002-01-15 John Elliott
* v0.6.0 release.
* Acorn ADFS formats added to the list of formats, and to the
geometry probe. These don't work on Windows because of the limitations
of the underlying floppy driver.
* dsk_xread() and dsk_xwrite() altered so that only part of a sector
can be read or written.
* Make libdsk compile in Microsoft Visual C++ (Kevin Thacker)
* dskform supports all built-in disc geometries.
* dg_stdformat() can be used to enumerate the built-in geometries.
* dsktrans includes a "-logical" option to rearrange the tracks of
a disc, so that they come out in logical order in a "raw" file. This
option is only effective for ADFS and 144FEAT formats.
