Commander
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| Download: | Commander.zip [62K] |
| Downloaded: | 5 times |
| Version: | 2.56 (6th May 2008) |
| 32-bit: | Yes |
| Requirements: | RISC OS 3.50 or above
220K wimpslot |
| Licence: | Shareware |
| Disc Commander will NOT work on Windows or Mac OS computers. It is for RISC OS only, and I have no plans to convert it to other systems. |
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Purpose
Disc Commander is a fully featured Disc Toolkit and sector editing application for RISC OS computers.
It can search for and recover portions of disc or deleted data and also allow manual editing and recovery of individual sectors on the disc.
Features include...
· RISC OS 4 & 5 compatibility - Disc Commander will manually edit E+ and F+ format discs (RISC OS 4 long filename format) and is compatible with RISC OS versions 4,5 and 6.
· Disc Sector Editor - Disc Commander's most powerful feature! Allows you to specify any parameter, right down to gap sizes and sector ID values if you like. Commander will read and write individual sectors or marked sections of the disc. Deleted file and corruped disc recovery are now within the reach of even novice users, thanks to Commander's ease of use and simple to understand manual. Commander can even change format automaticzlly from track to track. The disc sector editor is fully multi-tasking and even lets you import and export sector data to other RISC OS applications such as a text editor. Commander will read discs that other disc editors won't even touch, including discs that give 'Unformatted' or 'Broken Directory' errors.
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Because Disc Commander looks directly at the disc rather than the format, you can even use it to recover PC or Mac discs.
· Disc Text Search - Coupled with the sector editor, this lets you scan an entire disc for the occurrence of a requested string or sequence of characters, making searching for deleted files that much easier. Registered users can also choose from a range of preset filetypes, making searching for, eg. lost JPEG files easy.
· Disc Service - Commander has the capability to service a complete disc by verifying it and automatically trying to recover any corrupt sectors it comes across. This is not quite so thorough as recovering sectors by hand, but greatly saves time and can be a handy 'last resort' for non-computer users.
· Floppy Disc Scramble - Commander can scramble the entire contents of a floppy disc (useful in this world where free speech is threatened). All you need to do is supply a password and Commander does the rest. Virtually unbreakable encryption to protect your confidential or sensitive data.
Demo Version
Unregistered versions of Disc Commander have 'save' functions disabled. Other than that, the version you can download above is fully functional. Registered users will also receive a full, printed manual.
Screenshots
The Control Panel for navigating around the disc and setting primary parameters.
The Disc Sector information, showing the data on the disc, and allowing you to edit it. This window is actually editing a USB pen disc on the Iyonix.
Plugins
DCBackup
Backup most protected discs and make security backups of your floppy discs.
DCFilter
Filter will filter control characters and top bit characters from files.
DCSetType
SetType is an intelligent filetyping application which will attempt to guess the filetypes of files dragged to it. It will also display the version number of modules.
History
There follows a concise list of changes between each version, in reverse date order so that the latest changes are listed first.
N.B. The latest version may not necessarily be the released version, as current development is also shown here.
2.56 (6th May 2008)
a) Bug fix: Prevent 'Number too big' errors from occurring when running a Disc Service
(registered version only)
2.55 (22nd Apr 2008)
a) Bug fix: Updated filesystem detection in order to load correctly on the A9 Home.
2.54 (12th Apr 2008)
a) Added PNG to searchable filetypes.
b) Removed null polls from main WIMP polling routine.
c) Added email and web site links to 'Info' window.
d) Added Choices option to disc editor menu (as well as iconbar menu)
e) Added multi-tasking option to disc search (selectable from choices window)
f) Amended choices file to be human readable.
2.53 (27th Mar 2008)
a) Bug fix: Entering 64-bit addresses in address box doesn't cause 'Bad hex' error.
b) Added support for DataPower,EPS,Maestro,PDF and ProCAD file searching.
c) Tidied navigation window a bit.
d) Added automatic guessing at correct filetype setting when you save a marked section
of recovered data.
e) Store data window position so that if closed and re-opened it opens in the previous
position.
2.52 (23rd Mar 2008)
a) Added 'Tab' key support to moving around icons.
b) Moved 'address' labels in main data window to allow for longer disc addresses.
c) Made default window size a full sector (up to 512 bytes)
d) Implemented 'home written' decimal to hexadecimal converter to cope with 64-bit
addresses.
e) Added 'Jump to' grabbed sector menu option.
f) Tidied up code to remove redundant windows.
g) Removed dependency on !ABC and switched to Squashed BASIC, using StrongBS
h) Removed registration code so that un-registered copies are fully-functional.
i) Fixed bugs in RamFS and SCSI reading routines.
j) Disc Commander now requires BASIC64 for increased accuracy in 64-bit calculations.
2.51 (19th Mar 2008)
a) Improved handling of long disc addresses, for large disc sizes.
b) Extended address space to 12 digits.
c) Amended registration code slightly.
d) Fixed occasional lockup on the Iyonix when opening main disc editor window.
2.50 (5th Dec 2002)
a) Re-compiled for 32-bit compatibility.
b) Bug fix: Calculating size of large disc drives.
c) Added SHIFT/CTRL multipliers to track/sector navigation to help speed up navigation
around large drives.
d) Tested on Iyonix.
2.03 (29th Mar 2001)
a) Fixed bug in preset filetype search routine, in addition to adding more preset
filetypes (including ArtWorks, Basic, OvationPro, Zip plus others)
2.02 (4th Mar 2001)
a) Removed 'Find file' option from main menu. This is now included in RISC OS itself.
2.01 (4th Feb 2001)
a) Re-implemented byte search in disc editor.
b) Improved support for drives > 4GB by checking 64bit disc sizes.
c) Improved auto detection for new filecore formats.
2.00 (19th Oct 2000) - EXTENSIVE RE-WRITE TO IMPLEMENT PLUGINS
a) Took 'Backup', 'Filter', 'FindText' and 'SetType' out of main application and made
into plugins, selectable from the Utilities menu.
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