droiD64 - A graphical filemanager for D64 files

2.08.2004: The latest version is droiD64 0.04b.

View this project at SourceForge.net: http://sourceforge.net/projects/droid64

screenshot of droiD64 in action
(version 0.04b running on WMaker, Linux)
Click image for fullsize picture.

What Is droiD64?

What It Can Do

droiD64 is a graphical filemanager for D64 files.
This is a filemanager for disk-images suitable for the Commodore 64 and others. These disk-images are usually stored as .D64 files and have the size of 174848 bytes. May this tool make life easier for Commodore 64 fans, especially for those using MAC and Linux systems as there are tools available for Windows anyway.

Implemented functions are (so far):

new disk
open disk
show BAM of disk
rename disk
insert PRG file into disk
extract PRG file from disk
rename file on disk
copy PRG file to another disk
interaction with other programs (for example: cbm4linux or Vice)

What It Cannot Do

droiD64 cannot transfer disk images to real floppy hardware. There are other programs for that purpose like StarCommander or cbm4linux.

Downloads

droiD64-0.04b.tar.gz

(99kb)

This is the latest droiD64 Java executable suitable for all platforms.

droiD64-0.04b-src.tar.gz

(56kb)

This is the latest droiD64 Java source.

droiD64_icons.tar.gz

(6kb)

Thanks to Ragnarok, we have a set of icons now.

View previous versions and change logs at SourceForge.net.

System Requirements

Java runtime 1.3 or newer (Get SUN's Java runtime environment at http://java.com.)

As droiD64 is written in Java, it should run on every platform Java runs on (for example Linux, MacOS X, OS/2, Unix, VMS and Windows) :)

Installation Instructions

Step 1: Download and install a Java runtime environment if you have none installed.
Step 2: Download the latest version of droiD64 and extract it to any directory of your choice.
Step 3: Create a link to start droiD64. (This step may be skipped on some operating systems.)
This may be the hardest part for people not familiar with Java applications.
Make your link, batch-file, shell-script or whatever somehow look like the following commandline:

java -jar [directory]/droiD64-[version].jar

Working With droiD64

Things to keep in mind

Important: Please keep in mind that this program is still in testing phase. Please work with backups of your D64-files and give feedback if something went wrong.

Known Bugs / To Do List

Please refer also to the "Bugs and ToDo" section in the "Help"-menu of this program, because this will be updated more recently.

Bug: none known. Do intensive testing, find some and mail them to me please
ToDo:general: do intensive testing
ToDo:DiskPanel: implement "Reload D64" function.
ToDo:delPRG: implement method
ToDo:general: allow users to enter special characters when editing diskname and filenames.
ToDo:general: implement drag and drop
ToDo:DiskPanel: Warn users if file will get overwritten. Include nice .D64 and .PRG extensions automatically.
ToDo:renameDisk and renamePRG: Allow user to enter only limited string in the textfields.
ToDo:renamePRG: add some more parameters
ToDo:insertPRG: this always sets new FileType = PRG
ToDo:d64.writeDirectoryEntry: what to do if filename exists?
ToDo:d64.setNewDirectoryEntry: relative files
ToDo:d64.setNewDirectoryEntry: GEOS files
ToDo:DiskPanel: add a "clear messages" button

Copyright

This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by the Free Software Foundation; either version 2 of the License, or (at your option) any later version.

This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful, but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE.
See the GNU General Public License for more details.

GNU General Public License

Contact

To get in contact with me for any reason concerning droiD64 write an eMail to wolfvoz(AT)users.sourceforge.net.

last updated on 17.10.2004