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DiskFlashback Release Notes

• Sped up the Greaseweazle track reading speed by almost double
• Sped up the Supercard PRO track reading speed by almost double
• Small speed up for DrawBridge reading too!
• Sped up disk writing as well!
• Added special message for people just trying to run the DiskFlashback EXE and wondering why it doesn't do anything
• Added new "Clean Drive Heads" option for real floppy drives (cleaning disk required)
• Re-arranged all physical drive related commands into its own menu
• Added option to toggle the auto-starting up the system tray icon with Windows
• Changed how new versions of the application are detected to hopefully get around some previous false positives
• Mount physical Amiga HD/Memory Card disks as drive letters (OFS/FFS/PFS only)
• Can now detect Amiga hard disk partitions when RDSK block is not on the first block (can be upto 64 blocks in)
• Better / quicker cooldown if disk is removed from physical drive while its being read
• Added support for DSK (MSX) files as they're basically FAT12 PC disks
• Fixed a bug with some DMS files where the total number of cylinders was incorrectly read
• Fixed potential re-entry bug from aborting some operations and turning off the drive motor
• Fixed issues with SuperCard PRO board not seeking to the correct track [FloppyBridge]
• Fixed an issue where some SCP files wouldn't load at all
• Fixed some issues with some dual-format disk images not showing both parts
• Fixed issues with Tri-format disks (they're actually dual-format really)
• Fixed an issue with dual-format disks where number of heads was incorrectly used for PC/Atari side
• Fixed issue where re-reading bad Amiga sectors didn't work properly
• Fixed a strange seek issue when ejecting real floppy disks
• Fixed issue with some dialogs disappearing behind explorer after message was shown
• Fixed an issue where changing file attributes (Amiga) caused the Readable/Delete attributes to become unset
• EXEs etc are now digitally signed

• Fixed disabling "auto-detect com port" being ignored
• Better support for hard disk image files larger than 4G (some partitions got ignored before)
• Upgraded to use the new ADFLib v0.9
• Changed error handling when reading from disks to include the Always Ignore option
• Added Amiga PFS3 file system support (this was a real PITA!)

• Further improved NDOS disk support for Amiga
• Prevent attempted auto-mount of real drive if no COM ports are detected, and slowed this down too.
• Detects if you disconnect your Drawbridge, Greaseweazle or Supercard PRO board and removes the drive.
• Fixed DD/HD detection if the wrong format is written to the disk
• Added option to force the density when writing a floppy disk (use with care, you can't actually override the density)
• Changed mounting of physical drives to be off by default (d'oh)
• Fixed failing to mount Amiga Rigid Disk Block Images
• Fixed bug where the current real flopy drive configuration was not shown upon re-opening the config dialog

• Improved handling for NDOS disks where system type is known but not file system
• New menu option in the system menu with "Copy to Disk" and "Copy to Image" incase you couldnt find them for the file context menus
• Added warning if you try to backup a real disk to an image file and the file system was not recognised
• Added copyright and licence notices to the headers of files
• Fixed the system tray icon tool tip

• Improved SCP file code
• Faster Unmount of Disk Images

• Added auto-start of the system menu if for some reason it's not running

• Updated FloppyBridge fixing a few bugs

• Now cleans up drive icons on startup incase they're there from a bad quit

• Initial release