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Retro Innovations Zoom Floppy & ROM-el

April 20th, 2011 No comments
Retro Innovations Zoom Floppy & ROM-el and IEEE-488 connector.

Autopsy:

ZoomFloppy is an USB device for connecting Commodore disk drives to your PC. The ZoomFloppy is an improvement based on XU1541 from Till Harbaum.

Nate Lawson and Jim Brain teamed up to produce a professional product. This controller will support IEC drives, IEEE-488 drives and a user-port connection for parallel.

source: go4retro.com ieee488 beta software docs & firmware

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FAIL (First Atari Image Library) v1.1.0

April 20th, 2011 No comments

FAIL is a portable viewer of several 8-bit Atari image formats.

Changelog:

  • Fixed decoding of ILC, AP3, RIP, PIC, CPR, HIP and CIN.
  • Added support for MCH, IGE, 256, AP2, JGP, DGP, ESC, PZM, IST and RAW.
  • Created Windows thumbnail provider.
  • Fixed user interface issues in FAILWin.
  • Fixed compilation errors with the new libpng.
  • Updated installation for new ImageMagick.
  • Moved source code from SVN to Git.

source: fail.sourceforge.net

Categories: Atari, News & Rumors, OSx/Linux/Win Tools, Today