Feature List
The application supports a wide variety of file archives, disk images, and filesystems. These may be nested inside each other, e.g. you can directly access a ShrinkIt archive in a ProDOS volume in a WOZ disk image stored in a ZIP archive.
You can list contents, add, extract, import, export, copy, rename, move, delete, test, get attributes, and set attributes on files. You can create new disk images in various formats and sizes, get metadata, set metadata, copy blocks or sectors, edit blocks or sectors, and view raw tracks, as well as copy and replace whole disk partitions.
File Archives
| Type | Filename Extensions | Status |
|---|---|---|
| AppleLink PE | .acu | read |
| AppleDouble | ("._" prefix pair) | read/add/extract |
| AppleSingle | .as | read/add/extract |
| Binary II | .bny .bqy | full |
| gzip | .gz | read/add/extract |
| MacBinary | .bin .macbin | read |
| NuFX (ShrinkIt) | .shk .sdk .bxy .sea .bse | full |
| ZIP | .zip | full (includes __MACOSX handling) |
Read indicates the archives can be read, but not written.
Add/extract means that you can extract files from archives in that format, but you can only create new archives by extracting files to them. For example, AppleSingle and AppleDouble work this way because they're designed to wrap a single file, not hold a collection. Creating an AppleSingle file, adding data and/or resource forks to it, and then setting attributes, is much more complicated than just extracting an entry from a file archive or disk image as AppleSingle.
Full means archives can be created, read, and written.
The __MACOSX support allows files in ZIP archives to be stored with resource forks and HFS/ProDOS file attributes.
Compression modes supported are LZW/1 and LZW/2 for NuFX, Squeeze for Binary II, and deflate for ZIP/gzip.
Disk Images
| Type | Filename Extensions | Status |
|---|---|---|
| 2IMG | .2mg .2img | full |
| DiskCopy 4.2 | .dc .image | full |
| Trackstar | .app | full |
| Unadorned Block | .do .po .dsk .d13 .iso .hdv .img | full |
| Unadorned Nibble | .nib .nb2 | full |
| WOZ | .woz | full (FLUX is read-only) |
Disk images may be from 5.25" floppy disks, 3.5" floppy disks, hard drives, CD-ROMs, CF/SD cards, and other block-addressable media.
The original CiderPress had support for FDI (Formatted Disk Image) and DDD (Dalton's Disk Disintegrator). These are not currently supported.
Filesystems
| Type | Status |
|---|---|
| CP/M | full (140KB and 800KB floppies) |
| DOS 3.2/3.3 | full (including 40/80 track disks) |
| Gutenberg | read |
| HFS | full (up to 4GB volumes) |
| MFS | read |
| Apple Pascal | full (includes defragmenter) |
| ProDOS | full |
| RDOS | read (all three variants) |
Filesystems with full support can be formatted onto new disk images.
Multi-Volume Layouts
| Type | Status |
|---|---|
| AmDOS, OzDOS, UniDOS | read/write |
| Apple Partition Map (APM) | read/write |
| CFFA | read/write (4/6/8 partitions) |
| DOS hybrids | read/write (+ProDOS, Pascal, and CP/M) |
| DOS.MASTER volumes | read/write |
| FocusDrive | read/write |
| MicroDrive | read/write |
| Mac 'TS' format | read/write |
| Pascal ProFile Manager | read/write |
Extracting and replacing individual partitions within a multi-volume image is supported.
Creation of new multi-volume disk images is not yet supported.
File Conversion - Export
There are four kinds of output:
- Simple text - output as .TXT, using UTF-8 with host-specific end-of-line markers.
- Formatted text - output as .RTF (Rich Text Format).
- Bitmap graphics - output as .PNG (Portable Network Graphic).
- Cell grid data - output as .CSV (Comma-Separated Value).
| Type | Action |
|---|---|
| Plain text | convert EOL and character set from DOS, ProDOS, HFS, etc. |
| Random-access text | configurable record length; output to CSV |
| Hex dump | character portion has selectable character set; skips sparse sections |
| Resource listing | plain text; from IIgs or Macintosh resource forks |
| Disassembly | 6502 (+undoc), 65C02, 65816; includes NiftyList annotations |
| Object Module Format (OMF) | file structure output as plain text |
| Applesoft BASIC | plain text or syntax-highlighted |
| Integer BASIC | plain text or syntax-highlighted |
| Business BASIC | plain text or syntax-highlighted |
| LISA assembler | plain text (v2, v3, v4/v5) |
| Merlin assembler | plain text |
| S-C assembler | plain text |
| Apple Pascal codefile | file structure output as plain text |
| Apple Pascal textfile | plain text |
| AppleWorks "Classic" Database | v3, output to CSV |
| AppleWorks "Classic" Spreadsheet | v3, output to CSV, some functions translated |
| AppleWorks "Classic" Word Processor | v3 (and usually v4/v5), most formatting supported |
| AppleWorks GS Word Processor | most formatting supported |
| Gutenberg word processor | plain text, formatting not handled |
| Magic Window document | plain text, formatting not handled |
| Teach Document | most formatting supported |
| Apple II hi-res | 560x384 color or B&W bitmap, with half-pixel shifts |
| Apple II & Apple /// hi-res font | bitmap grid with 96 or 128 glyphs |
| LZ4FH hi-res | 560x384 color or B&W |
| Apple II double hi-res | 560x384 color or B&W |
| Apple IIgs super hi-res | 640x400 color; unpacked ($C1/0000), Paintworks ($C0/0000), packed ($C0/0001), APF ($C0/0002) |
| Apple IIgs super hi-res 3200 | 640x400 color; unpacked ($C1/0002), DreamGrafix ($C0/8005), ".3201" |
| MacPaint | 576x720 B&W |
| Print Shop / GS clip art | color and monochrome |
| Print Shop font | bitmap |
Text conversions can treat the source as low/high ASCII, Mac OS Roman, or ISO 8859-1.
File Conversion - Import
A limited set of files can be converted from a "host" file to something directly usable on a vintage system.
| Type | Action |
|---|---|
| Plain text | convert EOL and character set |
| Applesoft BASIC | plain text to executable form |
Imported text files may be encoded with UTF-8, ISO 8859-1, or CP 1252. They can be converted to ASCII, high ASCII, or Mac OS Roman.