History of Disk2FDI versions


2001/11/04      Version 0.9. Released to the public as a stand-alone version.
                - Adds the /Tnn and /Hn command-line switches.
                - Adds the nn option to the /S command-line switch.
                - Adds detection of maximum tracks reachable by disk drives.
                - Some minor fixes.

2001/10/31      Version 0.8. Released to some beta testers.
                - Adds support for ".IMG" and ".ST" disks extraction.
                - Adds support for 3.5" high-density IBM disks extraction.
                - Corrects some minor bugs.

2001/07/14      Version 0.7. Released to the public as a stand-alone version.
                - Includes yet another version of the software synchronization
                  technique for IBM-formatted disks. It works quite well in
                  many cases but not for all disks. So a hardware
                  synchronization appears to be necessary.
                - Adds the ability to extract standard IBM-formatted tracks
                  created with an IBM PC or an Atari ST.

2000/12/31      Version 0.6 "Special Millenium Edition".
                Released to some beta testers.
                - Includes a new version of the software synchronization
                  technique for IBM-formatted disks. Although this version
                  works a lot better, it is still far from being satisfying.

2000/05/17      Version 0.6. Released to some beta testers.
                - Adds a software synchronization technique to allow the
                  extraction of IBM-formatted disks. Unfortunately, this
                  technique is not working too well.
                - All known bugs are corrected.

2000/02/05      Version 0.55. Internal release.
                - First attempt to support the extraction of IBM-formatted
                  disks. The result is practically non-working.

2000/01/25      Version 0.5. Released to some beta testers.
                - Adds support for ".ADF" disks extraction.
                - Adds support for high-density Amiga disks extraction.
                - Most bugs are corrected.
                It is quickly followed by the internal release of version 0.51
                which fixes some more bugs.

2000/01/22      Version 0.4. Internal release.
                Now able to extract quite correct FDI files, mostly from
                Amiga disks. Most of the final release is already developed,
                but still with many bugs.

1999/12         Development is resumed. The technique to read Amiga disks using
                two disk drives is discovered. Version 0.2 and 0.3 are only
                internal steps along the development.

1999/02         The technique to read raw data from a disk with one disk
                drive was discovered in 1998 and now works quite well, but
                unfortunately not with Amiga disks.

1998/03/23      Version 0.16, included in Tand-Em version 0.5 (released
                1998/11/03) and Tand-Em version 0.55 (released 1999/03/19).
                - Adds the option to dump from either A: or B:.

1998/03/07      Version 0.15, included in Tandem version 0.25 (released
                1998/03/08), Tandem version 0.3 (released 1998/03/14) and
                Tandem version 0.4 (released 1998/03/21).
                - Adds the option to input a destination filename as a
                  parameter on the command line.

1998/03/02      Version 0.1. Initial release included in Tandem version 0.2.
                (released 1998/03/03). The ".FDI" extension is chosen.
                It is just a simple sector dumper for 5.25" 360KB disks to a
                DISK.FDI file using BIOS functions.