#RecoveryWhiskers 0.5.0 is out.

You can now modify the desired numbers of reads you want your data to have and cycle through all flux rotations:

https://codeberg.org/JennyFluff/RecoveryWhiskers

#retroComputing #softwareArchiving #floppy #GreaseWeazle

ohh this one has the stoned virus!

#softwareArchiving #retroComputing #retroVirus

Was there ever a concept of emulation for embedded games? E.g. #Tamagotchi being one of the most well known? But there were old super mario handhelds and watches too...

#Emulation #RetroGaming #SoftwareHistory #SoftwareArchiving #digipres

I filed some things to archive

PC LOGO (KRS): https://archive.org/details/pc_logo_krs [lost media, found this on a floppy]

Floppydriver: https://archive.org/details/flpydrvr (archived in some deep archive but wasn't filed as an item with metadata)

#softwareArchiving #digipres

when you get an original disk that looks like it's nice to have a flux copy of, but you find out it was modified by Windows Volume Tracker.

#softwareArchiving #floppy #digipres

today I managed to hack in more parsing and a warning message for atari ST floppies that go to track 80 or 81 (maybe also 82?).

My teac drive that I normally like doesn't go past 79. Another random drive from my pile does.

Added a warning about this to the status window.

I did some refactoring so the software now reads past those tracks if it detects an Atari ST image. One of the problems I need to fix is that the first floppy I tried has data up to track 80, it claims to have 10 sectors per track but all sectors at track 0-79 have are 9 sectors, but track 80 has 10 sectors (all empty).
That bugs out my software right now as it doesn't have support for tracks with different sector sizes yet.

#RecoveryWhiskers #floppy #retroComputing #softwareArchiving

me: "I need to test #RecoveryWhiskers with a DMF floppy"
me: forgets for weeks
me: reads a random floppy and it turns out to be formatted with DMF settings and it works perfectly

\o/
#floppy #retroComputing #softwareArchiving

Weekend progress on #RecoveryWhiskers :

Once the sectors containing the file allocation tables (FAT) is read, it will show you their size or if the FAT is empty.

next up will be adding a file listing and also make the program smarter so if it detects a large area of empty sectors and that area is empty at the file allocation table (if this is read correctly) then it should assume these are actually empty sectors.

I didn't get to it this weekend and I have work to do that pays for my my living (ugh)

#floppy #retroComputing #softwareArchiving #GreaseWeazle

#RecoveryWhiskers now has some actual information of the floppy when available.

Some more to follow requiring more refactoring..

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