Salio hace unos dias el Star Commander 0.83 con un monton de mejoras que muchas me parecen muy interesantes , les dejo la lista de cambios ..


  The Star Commander, Version 0.83 (sc083.zip, 2010-01-11)

  Bugs fixed since Version 0.82:

  - The Commander doesn't crash dosemu anymore but XMS is not used either.

  - You get no error message about the drive setup file being corrupted if the
    main setup file is missing.

  - On certain machines, with a buggy VGA BIOS,  the  Commander  displayed  an
    empty screen, although worked correctly. (Thanks to H rsfalvi Levente  for
    the fix.)

  - A weird problem, that caused extremely rare  lockups  upon  launching  the
    Commander on systems with XMS memory available,  has  been  fixed  in  the
    OverXMS unit.

  - "Fast mouse reset" didn't make any difference with PS/2 mice.

  - The "Extended 1541 disks" setting was saved  incorrectly  into  the  drive
    setup file.

  - The "DOS type" setting was not saved at all into the drive setup file.

  - The option "Orig format pattern" was always displayed as disabled  in  the
    configuration menu, although enabling or  disabling  it  had  the  correct
    effect.

  - Moving the mouse  does  not  halt  the  process  of  a  Quick  view  panel
    collecting the number  and  size  of  files  and  directories  inside  the
    directory highlighted in the opposite panel.

  - When using the "Quick view" item of the "Left" and "Right" menus,  it  was
    the opposite panel that switched to Quick view mode and the display of the
    specified panel was emptied.

  - PETSCII codes $7E, $9E, $DE and $FF were incorrectly  displayed  with  the
    lowercase/uppercase C64 charset: the character was reversed.

  - When pasting long  file  names,  that  contain  spaces  or  other  invalid
    characters, into input lines, they were  enclosed  into  double  quotation
    marks.

  - Quotation marks are removed automatically from DOS paths  and  file  names
    entered into input lines so that you may copy and paste them  between  the
    Commander and other applications  easily;  quotation  marks  in  Commodore
    paths and file names are kept, however.

  - When disabling long file name support with Ctrl-N, selected files were not
    reselected.

  - TAR archives were reported as broken.

  - The number of sides is not detected for disks in 1570 drives anymore.

  - For 1571 drives, the Commander now uses the drive's own  detection  method
    to determine whether a disk is single- or double-sided.

  - When copying files out of LHA and ZIP archives, the archive is temporarily
    uncompressed into the destination directory - or, if the destination is  a
    Commodore drive, the TEMP directory - rather than  the  source  directory,
    which may be a read-only medium such as a CD/DVD-ROM or a network drive.

  - Deleting the last file in Arkive, Lynx  and  filepacked  ZipCode  archives
    caused data corruption.

  - Adding files to a filepacked ZipCode archive may have corrupted  the  last
    block of the previously last file in the archive.

  - The progress indicator counted blocks incorrectly  while  copying  a  file
    from a Commodore drive in normal transfer mode.

  - When appending to a DOS file, the progress bar doesn't get filled  already
    at the beginning of the file copy and, when cancelling the operation,  the
    destination file gets its original size and date stamp  back  rather  than
    getting deleted.

  - When copying files into filepacked ZipCode archives, sectors  filled  with
    one byte were compressed as "packed" instead of "homogeneous", by both the
    Commander or Star Zip, which causes no data corruption but  increases  the
    archive size unnecessarily.

  - In  the  confirmation  dialog  box  for  overwriting  read-only  or  write
    protected files, the "No" button has been renamed to "Skip" and it doesn't
    cancel the complete file operation anymore.

  - If "Copy onto dir track" was enabled, when copying a too large file into a
    GEOS-formatted disk image, the Commander locked up rather than  displaying
    an error message about the destination disk having become full.

  - During file  rename,  already  existing  target  files  are  now  detected
    correctly under operating systems other than real DOS, as well.

  - If you renamed files on Commodore drives with a device number  other  than
    8, the Commander tried to move them instead.

  - It is now possible to rename files inside LHA  archives  to  names  longer
    than 16 characters.

  - When trying to create a subdirectory inside a 1581 disk  image,  an  error
    message, complaining about the number of tracks, kept popping up forever.

  - When changing the date and/or  time  stamps  of  DOS  files,  the  archive
    attribute was always set.

  - The "Attribute" function could not change the date stamps of  files  under
    Windows XP.

- You couldn't change to a completely empty drive, one that had no files  or
    directories in the root directory.

  - When reading Commodore disks in warp mode,  the  complete  sector  header,
    including the two padding bytes, is transferred to the PC and stored  into
    the destination, if it is a GCR-based disk format.

  - The warp disk copier handled 20,READ ERROR's incorrectly: no data was read
    from the damaged sector and other sectors, on the  same  track,  may  have
    inherited this error.

  - The disk copier locked up at the end of merging disk images.

  - There was a memory leak, causing weird behavior or lockups, in the message
    box in which the disk copier warned about the sector header ID and the BAM
    ID of the source disk being different.

  - In the error info editor of the disk editor, you couldn't put error  codes
    "A" to "F" to a whole track by pressing the appropriate shifted letter.

  - When owners are displayed, the BAM editor corrupted the  BAM  upon  saving
    changes that affect the second or third BAM sector in 1571 and  1581  disk
    images.

  - If the video card returned bogus VESA  screen  mode  numbers,  the  "Video
    mode" function couldn't position the highlight  bar  onto  the  line  that
    represents the current screen mode, upon popping up.

  - If the video card returned bogus VESA screen mode numbers, the  Commander,
    its loader, the viewer and the editor may have switched  the  screen  into
    80x25 mode, thinking that the current screen mode is graphical.

  - In the palette setup screen, the cursor did not show the current color  of
    the item highlighted in the list.

  - The external setup locked up upon exiting the "Configuration" menu.

  - Pressing the "Skip" button in the replace confirmation box of  the  editor
    had no effect.

  - Standard viewers and editors are executed in a way that is more compatible
    with DOS clones.

  - The viewer is now able to show files up to the maximum size of DOS  files:
    2 Gigabytes.

  - You couldn't enter subdirectories in 1581 disk images in the file selector
    of the internal viewer and editor.

  - Very long Commodore file names, those of files in subdirectories  of  disk
    images and archive files, were cut improperly to make them  fit  into  the
    title bar of the internal viewer and editor.

  - The directory list of the file selector is now centered on the  screen  in
    VESA modes, too, where the screen is wider.

  - In disk images, the Star Utilities assume files with a starting  track  of
    zero to be phantom files and don't fall into an infinite loop when  trying
    to extract file data anymore.

  - Star List, when using a format specification file,  did  not  display  the
    container header if the first file entry of the container was deleted  and
    so not visible; it also did  not  display  the  container  footer  if  the
    listing ended because of too many entries in the container.

  - Star List shifted the filenames one line upwards when listing LHA, LHA SFX
    and TAR archives without format specification.

  Other changes since Version 0.82:

  - From now on, for unregistered users, beta versions expire one  year  after
    their release; please, always download the newest beta and don't  complain
    about problems with old betas!

  - The source package does not include the (modified) source of Turbo Vision,
    Borland Pascal's user interface, anymore,  only  the  compiled  units  and
    object files plus patch files  that  convert  the  original  Turbo  Vision
    source files into their modified form.

  - Introducing support for accessing Commodore drives via the OpenCBM  driver
    (cbm4win 0.4.0  or  above)  under  Windows  NT4/2000/XP/2003  -  use   the
    "OpenCBM" value for the "Serial cable" option  in  the  "Transfer options"
    configuration screen.

  - Introducing disk turbos for 1581 drives.

  - Introducing support for ZIP archives, using Info-ZIP as external archiver:
    you may read the directory and add, extract, rename and delete files; note
    that PKZIP will definitely not work.

  - Introducing read-only support for diskpacked  ZipCode  archives:  you  may
    read the directory, extract files and view the disk with the disk editor.

  - Introducing the enhanced disk copier that can copy between  any  pairs  of
    Commodore disks, disk images, diskpacked ZipCode  archives  and  sixpacked
    ZipCode archives.

  - Introducing read-only support for the "*.f64" disk image  companion  files
    created by FCOPY-PC.

  - Introducing batch processing capability; read the documentation  for  more
    details.

  - Introducing a Commodore 1541 disk  formatter  that  verifies  sectors  and
    allocates bad ones in the BAM; for non-extended disks only.

  - The Commander is now able to show file and disk sizes up  to  the  maximum
    size of NTFS/ext2 files: 8  Exabytes  (1  Exabyte  =  1  thousand  million
    Gigabytes).

- Introducing the "/noxms" and "/noems" command line parameters that disable
    XMS and EMS usage.

  - Introducing the "/color", "/bw" and "/laptop" command line  parameters  to
    force the color, black & white and laptop palette.

  - The "/novesa" command line parameter disables VESA support completely, not
    only during startup.

  - Introducing the "/nowinclip" command line parameter that disables usage of
    the common Windows clipboard.

  - Paths longer  than  80  characters  are  also  saved  inside  and  between
    sessions.

  - The interval of  valid  parallel  port  addresses  has  been  expanded  to
    $0200-$F800.

  - Under Windows NT4/2000/XP/2003, the quasi-files, assigned  to  the  GiveIO
    and UserPort drivers, are kept open during parallel port access and closed
    only afterwards so that drivers can set up exclusive port  usage  for  the
    Commander.

  - As the parallel port  mode  cannot  be  reliably  detected  under  Windows
    NT4/2000/XP/2003, the warning about using an XP1541/XP1571 parallel  cable
    on an SPP parallel port is not displayed anymore.

  - A new option, "Invalid GCR error", lets you configure what  error  message
    the warp disk copier should generate when it encounters invalid GCR  codes
    in sectors of Commodore disks.

  - A new option, "Num of smart  retries",  enables  a  different  method  for
    retrying bad sectors on Commodore disks: if the  damaged  raw  data,  read
    from the disk, is the same for this many consecutive retries,  the  sector
    is considered to be successfully read, the error  code  is  noted  but  no
    error message is displayed.

  - If the "Delay value" option is set to 0, the new default value,  then  the
    actual delay value is computed by the automatic  calibrator  before  every
    access of the Commodore drive.

  - The "Force async transfer" option is now called "Async transfer"  and  its
    "Auto" value allows you to let the Commander automatically decide  whether
    to use synchronous or asynchronous data transfer.

  - The new "SafeAll" and "SafeUsed" values for "Detect port modes" skip  port
    mode detection under Windows NT4/2000/XP/2003, to avoid delays and crashes
    of the DOS shell, but  work  exactly  as  "All"  and  "Used"  under  other
    operating systems.

  - The current transfer mode is highlighted in the "Drive interleaves"  frame
    of the "Drive options" menu so  that  you  may  tune  the  transfer  speed
    easily.

  - More  alternative  hotkeys:  Delete  for  deleting  files,  Backspace  for
    entering the parent directory.

  - You get an error message if the Commander runs out of memory while reading
    the directory into a panel.

  - Removed the screen flickering upon entering and exiting  standard  viewers
    and editors and, when the Commodore character set enabled, the screen mode
    changes upon entering and exiting the internal viewer and editor.

  - The "low brightness on black"  shadow  color  has  been  changed  to  "low
    brightness on low brightness" because it casts  a  more  realistic  shadow
    onto reverse characters.

  - To specify special PETSCII characters, "%xy" hexadecimal codes may now  be
    used for source file names, as well.

  - Under Windows NT4/2000/XP/2003, files with the extension ".cmd"  are  also
    considered executable program files.

  - In the Filter settings, TAR archives are taken for PC archives rather than
    CBM archives.

  - The "User command" function of the user menu for Commodore  drives  always
    displays the drive status and displays it as PETSCII string  so  that  all
    kinds of unusual drive commands may be used and their results viewed.

  - When turbo formatting an extended 1541 disk, and  "DOS  type"  is  set  to
    "Dolphin DOS" in "Transfer options", the  first  padding  byte  of  sector
    headers is set to $0D, so that Dolphin DOS also  recognizes  the  disk  as
    having 40 tracks. The same occurs, when converting an extended  1541  disk
    image or diskpacked ZipCode archive to GCR-coded disk image  or  sixpacked
    ZipCode archive format, and "DOS type" is set to "Dolphin DOS"  in  "Image
    options".

  - In the "File attributes" box for DOS files, the  year  part  of  the  date
    stamp is displayed with four digits, including the century.

  - In "File attributes", date and time stamps may be  specified  in  the  ISO
    "yyyy-mm-dd" and "hh:mm:ss" format, too.

  - In the "File info" box for GEOS files, the hour  part  of  date  stamp  is
    always displayed in AM/PM mode, even  if  the  regional  settings  of  the
    operating system tell otherwise.

  - "File info" recognizes more  of  the  standard  load  addresses  of  BASIC
    programs for various Commodore machines.

  - Added a separate online help page on disk errors: what their reason is and
    how the disk copier reacts to them.

- When "DOS type" is set to "Prologic DOS" in "Image options", only extended
    disk images get a DOS version code of "P" written into the BAM sector upon
    creation; normal disk images don't.

  - The "Change drive" dialog box does not spin up floppy disk drive(s)  under
    Windows NT4/2000/XP/2003, during the detection of available drive letters.

  - The checkbox settings of the "Copy disk" dialog box are remembered  during
    a single Commander session.

  - An error message is displayed if, before a disk copy, you try to preformat
    a destination 1541 disk for an extended 1541 disk image and "Command  exec
    mode" is set to "Normal".

  - While writing a Commodore disk, 25,WRITE ERROR's are retried as many times
    as the value of the "Number of retries" option.

  - With two new symbols, "!`" and "%`", you may use  the  extension  part  of
    file names in menu and extension files.

  - It is now possible to toggle the character set even if a dialog box is  on
    the screen.

  - If the system code page is other than 437 (US default for DOS), there  are
    seams, rather than national characters, where double and single lines meet
    in dialog box frames; also, active options are marked with an "x"  instead
    of a check mark.

  - The mouse cursor changes into an icon over screen hot spots  and  while  a
    mouse operation is taking place.

  - Mouse wheel up/down acts as Cursor Up/Down, when CuteMouse -  or  any  DOS
    Wheel API-compatible mouse driver - is installed.

  - Middle mouse button clicks on the key bar activate the functions that  are
    normally accessed with Shift held down.

  - Clicking the middle mouse button outside the active  dialog  box  has  the
    same effect as pressing Enter.

  - You can drag the cursor in the command line with  the  left  mouse  button
    held down.

  - You can select text in the command line and all input lines with the right
    mouse button held down.

  - You can change the width and height of the panels by dragging  the  middle
    and bottom edges of the panels with the mouse.

  - You can change the width of the Name columns of  panels  by  dragging  the
    vertical separator line to their right.

  - Command line options,  except  for  "/cmd",  are  also  available  in  the
    external setup program, SCSETUP.EXE.

  - The Commander, the internal viewer and editor and Star Lynx all handle the
    last file in Lynx archives without errors even  if  the  "offset  of  last
    useful byte in last sector" counter is missing from its directory entry.

  - The new "PETANSI" view mode of the internal viewer, designed  for  viewing
    ANSI-style PETSCII art, can process some control  codes  in  PETSCII  text
    files: carriage return, all  colors,  reverse  on/off  and  character  set
    switching; other control codes are ignored and not displayed.

  - The viewer and the editor accept the names of Commodore files inside image
    and archive files on the command line, using the common syntax.

  - When editing menu and extension files with the internal  editor,  Shift-F1
    toggles the mini help at the bottom of the screen.

  - Star List now recognizes 1571 and 1581 disk images, as well.

  - Now Star List allows you to use field widthes up to 255 characters  rather
    than only 63.


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Gracias thierry!ahor falta una version nueva del 64hdd y estamos completos!

falta una version nueva del 64hdd y estamos completos

estaria para coneguir una copia de la version full y ahi si estamos listos !

version full de 64hdd realmente estaria excelente.
eso habilita una interfaz parecida a la del vc1541 no?

eso habilita una interfaz parecida a la del vc1541 no?

y muchas cosas mas que interesantes

por sahi tiene un tilde que dice fastloader, geos file, etc.
osea... cargas geos, y ademas anda el fastload??????
esa es una flor de ventaja.
eso es con el cable xe1541?