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ensoniqcommander - a norton clone for ensoniq formatted media

sorry. this project has been cancelled because i do not have enough time for it. but i did redesign the project. the new aim was to write a file system plugin for the outstanding program TOTAL COMMANDER. please have a look into my other projects for EnsoniqFS and related software.

since the ensoniq eps16+ (and the asr10, too) have a really tiny display, copying files on ensoniq disks is always a pain. if you have a scsi disk, the things get even worse. you have to press thousands of buttons to move between directories (unless you have created shortcuts), and to keep an overview over hundreds (or thousands) of files with a simple one-line-display is nearly impossible.


although there are several projects out there dealing with this topic, they are either unusable or commercial (if there _is_ a really working free program, please let me know, i'm highly interested!). so i decided to write such a program on my own. currently it is very alpha, but i hope i can release a working version this march or april. i'm also planning to make the source code available to the public (maybe gpl), so others can contribute to the project. click on the image to see a screenshot of the current version.

planned features of the program are:

  • reading/writing scsi disks, image files, reading cdrom
  • _no_ floppy support (unfortunately win32 can't read/write 10 sectors/track)
  • formatting scsi disks and images, creating new images
  • creating image files from cdroms and scsi disks
  • creating directories, moving between directories
  • copying/moving/renaming files and directories
  • checking/repairing directory structures and allocation tables
  • importing/exporting instrument files