faddenSoft is pleased to announce the release of CiderPress v2.1. This update includes several new features and bug fixes. ** Cassette Tape Decoder Have you bought some cassette tapes on eBay but can't find the time to unpack them on your Apple II? Here's an easier way: capture the tape on your PC in a WAV file, and use CiderPress to decode it. From a medium-quality recording (22.05KHz 8-bit mono recommended), CiderPress will automatically find every program on the tape, and determine its type (Applesoft, Integer, binary) and length automatically. Try different decoding strategies on tapes that have degraded to the point where they no longer work on a real Apple II. The extracted files are written to the currently-open disk or file archive. ** Monitor-Style Disassembly Display 6502 and 65816 code in a format identical to the system monitor. Three different modes are supported: //e monitor, IIgs monitor with short registers, and IIgs monitor with long registers. Can't remember what those toolbox calls and ROM locations are? Annoyed by inline ProDOS 8 MLI calls that screw up the listings? CiderPress uses the data file from Dave Lyons' Nifty List to display annotations on memory locations and system calls. Inline ProDOS 8 and GS/OS calls are broken into pieces, in the same format the IIgs monitor uses. ** GWP Conversion IIgs documentation was often distributed in Teach or AppleWorks GS word processor files. These documents included "smart quotes" and symbols that don't translate directly to their Windows equivalents. Files with accented characters are hard to read without opening them in an emulator. CiderPress now converts Teach (GWP $5445) and AWGS WP (GWP $8010) documents to RTF. Smart quotes, symbols, and accented characters are converted to their Windows equivalents. Fonts are mapped to similar fonts, and font size changes are tracked. Text formatting, such as paragraph justification and bold/italic/underline, are preserved. ** Print Shop Clip Art Print Shop clip art disks can provide a source for button icons and web page decorations. The "classic" 88x52 black & white graphics, as well as Print Shop GS 88x52 8-color graphics, can be converted to equivalent BMP files. ** CP/M Text Conversion The end of a CP/M text file is marked with a Ctrl-Z. The CP/M text converter identifies text files and cuts them off at the first Ctrl-Z. This makes extracting documentation from CP/M disks much nicer. ** Miscellaneous ProDOS 800K disks that actually hold five 160K DOS.MASTER partitions are now recognized and handled. Fixed some bugs related to pasting files onto DOS disks. Fixed AWP margin handling (this time for sure!). CiderPress is shareware, with a $9.95 registration cost. After 30 days it must be registered. The v2.0 upgrade is FREE to registered owners. Visit http://www.faddensoft.com/ for a full feature list and screen shots. The download comes with MDC (Multi-Disk Catalog), a free utility (no registration required) for generating searchable file listings from a large set of disk images. -- Send mail to fadden@fadden.com (Andy McFadden) - http://www.fadden.com/ CD-Recordable FAQ - http://www.cdrfaq.org/ CiderPress Apple II archive utility for Windows - http://www.faddensoft.com/ Fight Internet Spam - http://spam.abuse.net/spam/ & http://spamcop.net/