Roadmap

Future Features

Ideas for v1.x

Disk/archive support:

• Edit partition names / types (e.g. APM).
• Edit ZIP file comments as metadata.
• Full support for MFS.

Application:

• Create multi-part hard drive images (CFFA, APM).

GUI application:

• Improve "find file" feature.
• ASCII chart (from SourceGen).
• File slicer / concatenator tool (from SourceGen).
• Dark mode.

Ideas for Someday

Disk/archive support:

• Support StuffIt (vintage) archives.
• Support DDD / DDD Pro.
• Auto-detect viruses (Elk Cloner, etc).
• Support Lisa filesystems: LisaMonitor, Lisa OS v1/v2/v3

Application:

• File entry sorting (for file archives and unsorted filesystems).
• Search file contents.
• Multi-disk search, by name and by file contents.
• File-by-file comparison of archive contents.
• File "fingerprinting" (e.g. generate list of CRCs of each fork).
• Zero out unused blocks, scrub unused directory entries.
• Nibble track editor.

CLI application:

• Support half/quarter tracks and 524-byte sectors in read/write commands.
• Add sector skew option for sector read/write commands.
• Provide a way to set the DOS version number when formatting a 5.25" disk.
• Add resource fork manipulation commands (rez/derez).

GUI application:

• Add "back stack" navigation, to make it easier to move through complex archives.
• Graphical display of disk volume usage; sector editor shows file ownership.
• Nibble disk image graphical display.
• Drag & drop file viewer contents.