Greaseweazle Tools 1.5

Release Notes:

• User-configurable disk formats: New option --diskdefs
• New disk formats: ensoniq.mirage and sci.prophet
• Fill missing/bad sectors with -=[BAD SECTOR]=- pattern

Greaseweazle Tools 1.4

Release Notes:

• Read support for DIM, FDI, HDM, XDF, and D88 image formats
  • Primarily used with Japanese computers
• Renamed pc98.hd and pc98.dd formats to pc98.2hd and pc98.2dd
• Fixed head count on pc98.2hd and pc98.2dd formats
• Support pc98.2d format (used e.g. by PC-88 and X1)
• Support pc98.2hs format (used primarily by late PC-98)

Greaseweazle Tools 1.3

Release Notes:

• gw: New formats ibm.800 and ibm.2880
• gw: New image format *.MGT

Greaseweazle Tools 1.2

Release Notes:

• gw read, gw convert: Allow PLL parameters to be specified
• Try fallback conservative PLL on difficult tracks
• Kryoflux: Emit info block with Greaseweazle and frequency details

Greaseweazle Tools 1.1

Release Notes:

• New IMG formats: pc98.dd, pc98.hd
• IBM FM, MFM: Fix bugs in raw track decoder
• gw info: Report MCU information (type, speed, SRAM)

Greaseweazle Tools 1.0

Release Notes:

• New IMG formats:
  • ibm.1680, ibm.dmf
  • akai.800, akai.1600
  • ensoniq.800, ensoniq.1600
• FM/MFM: Report unexpected sectors when reading
  • Gives a hint that the format specifier is incorrect
• Minor bugfixes

Greaseweazle Tools 0.42

Release Notes:

• Mac/Linux: Further improve Python source installation

Greaseweazle Tools v0.39

Release Notes:

• Fix crashes in the USB.seek error path
• Support Atari 90kB format (atari.90)

Greaseweazle Tools v0.38

Release Notes:

• gw rpm: Print 3 decimal places, and print summary stats
• gw read,convert: Rename --rpm to --adjust-speed
  • Accepts a SPEED value in units of rpm, ms, us, ns, or scp ticks
• gw read,write,erase: New option --fake-index
  • Ignore real index pulses
  • Generate fake index pulses at specified SPEED
• gw read,write,convert: Format decoders automatically adjust track speed
  • Usually there is no need to specify --rpm (now --adjust-speed)
• gw read: Re-seek via cylinder 0 every N retries
• gw erase: New option --hfreq to write a high-frequency flux signal
  • Usually reads back as a "No Flux Area"

Greaseweazle Tools v0.37

Release Notes:

• Require Python >= v3.7 (ignore this for Windows binary builds)
• Logging output to stderr is now buffered no more than per-line
• HFE: Auto-detect output bitrate if possible, else require on command line
• gw convert: Fix crash when printing summary information
• gw convert: Fix --tracks= handling to respect step= and hswap
• gw convert: New option --out-tracks to allow step= and hswap override
• D81 (commodore.1581): Fix sector header H field: should be swapped