OpenAcornExplorer

OpenAcornExplorer is an open-source, cross-platform application for Acorn ADFS and DFS disc image manipulation.

Motivation

There are currently no open-source applications suitable for reading and writing Acorn 8-bit and 32-bit disc images as used for both floppy and hard drive images.

OpenAcornExplorer aims to solve this by becoming a one-stop application for both DFS and ADFS image manipulation. The project aims are:

Support for ADFS images:

• S - 160K Single Density (BBC Micro and Master 128)
• M - 320K Single Density (BBC Micro and Master 128)
• L - 640K Single Density (BBC Micro, Master 128 and RISC OS 3.1)
• D - 800K Double Density (RISC OS 3.1)
• E - 800K Double Density (RISC OS 3.1)
• E+ - 800K Double Density (RISC OS 3.5)
• F - 1600K Quad Density (RISC OS 3.5)
• F+ - 1600K Quad Density (RISC OS 3.5)

Support for DFS images:

• 40 Track single-sided
• 80 Track single-sided
• 80 Track double-sided

The project road-map is to support ADFS S, M and L initially, then D, E and F (including the + versions) and then, finally, DFS.

The application source code should be compatible with Windows, Linux and Mac (although Mac is a stretch-goal).

Installation

It is not possible to install the application at this time. This section will be updated as the project progresses.

Author

OpenAcornExplorer is written and maintained by Simon Inns

License

OpenAcornExplorer 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 3 of the
License, or (at your option) any later version.

OpenAcornExplorer 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.

You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License
along with OpenAcornExplorer.  If not, see
<http://www.gnu.org/licenses/>.