Coming from Sugarbox code, SugarCOnvDisk can convert disks images between differents formats : dsk, edsk, supercard pro, HFE, IPF, CT-raw, Raw (kryoflux) to dsk/edsk, scp, IPF, HFE. It also supports batch and filtering.
SymbOS v3.0 RC1 (14/11/2016) is available.
Changes since the last update : fixed bug in the widget management of the extended desktop, the widget feature can now fully used as well, and increased booting speed.
The windows utility CDTMaster by Oscar Martin exists as v3 since 2015 (works also under linux with mono). It is a Taper like utility, it includes other options like importing files from a DSK, converting files into TZX/CDT blocks (like 2cdt) and convert CDT to WAV (like playtzx).
If 2CDT is used to manage Amstrad CPC tape images, the new version of cpcxfs by Kevin Thacker is used to manage Amstrad CPC disk images.
This new version fixes :
New version of the 2CDT utility by Kevin Thacker which lets you create a tape image file (.CDT) or inject files inside.
New feature of this version : you can define the sync byte for headerless.
Corrected in this version :
A preview version of SymbOS by Prodatron is available with wifi support (needs the M4Board extension card by Dukes.
Beware, this version isnt 100% stable.
At least a new version of the WinAPE Amstrad CPC emulator by Richard Wilson.
Mostly it's a better Z80 emulation, palette change, tape support, assembler and disassembler.
Also, there is a new version of ParaDOS, a ROM (for CPC old and +) used for disc and files manipulations. Source of ParaDOS is available too.
After iMPdraw (download link), here is a new version of the Claudia Converter utility by Eliot.
it can load .BMP and .SCR created with the ConvIMG CPC utility, to show and modify them with the zoom tool. It manages fullscreen and CPC+ palette.
In december 2014, a preview of iMPdraw by AST was out. iMPdraw version 1 is now called iMPdraw lite, used for example for screens released at the Reset #20 meeting (usable on CPC and CPC+).
A new version (iMPdraw v2) is in the work since January 2015 by AST and ToTO.
Other painting program : GOS (CPC+ only) and Claudia (CPC and CPC+).
SAMdisk v3.8.8 by Simon Owen is out since the 8th July.
The utility supports transfers between floppy disks and disk images, and is designed to work with almost any soft-sectored disk format compatible with the PC floppy controller, including some copy-protected formats.
Low-level floppy device access requires the fdrawcmd.sys driver to be installed.
TFM, author of FutureOS (an Amstrad CPC operating system) has put CP/M plus with utilities on 10 ROMs at the moment. Click on source link below for download.
The Elan Enterprise is a new computer which can use Symbos. See the youtube video about this subject made during the Nijmegen MSX fair 2015.
You can test a preview of a new paint program for Amstrad CPC old and plus : iMPdraw by Ast/iMP4CT.
SAMdisk v3.8 by Simon Owen is out since the 9th March 2014.
The utility supports transfers between floppy disks and disk images, and is designed to work with almost any soft-sectored disk format compatible with the PC floppy controller, including some copy-protected formats.
Low-level floppy device access requires the fdrawcmd.sys driver to be installed.
Version 3.8, last updated 9th March 2014 - Added support for SuperCard Pro .scp flux disk images (MFM+FM) - Added --pll option to control PLL method with flux image scanning - Fixed --head giving ambiguous option error due to typo - Fixed KBI-19 format slightly overhanging track wrap - Improved EOT handling of flux images containing just one revolution - Changed --slow-step to --old-drive to better match usage
HxC Floppy Drive Emulator v2.0.18.4 is available on Github.
It's an utility to create images to be used by the SDCard HxC Floppy Emulator, to replace the good old 3 inch disks drives of our Amstrad CPC.
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