flashfloppy

Release Notes:

• Fix various crashes when mounting a Flash drive with stale IMAGE_A.CFG
• FAT FS: Support filesystems for which cluster table is "too small"
  • Windows and Linux will mount these volumes, thus so should we
• FF.CFG: New OLED display-type option: -inverse
  • Reverse-video effect (black text on white background)
• FF.CFG: display-order= option affects normal display modes only
  • Ignored in all banner and menu modes, to avoid jumbled display
• FF.CFG: Fix display-type= parsing for OLED-specific options
  • Ignore them unless an OLED display is explicitly configured

Known Issues:

• Folder-name on LCD/OLED displays is missing when USB stick first inserted
  • Not an issue except with non-default display-order config, or 4-row LCD display
  • Revert to v3.21 if this is an issue. It will be fixed in v3.23.

Release Notes:

• Support GUID Partition Table (GPT)
  • Now support: GPT, MBR, and no partition table
• FatFS: Updated to R0.14, patchlevel 2

Release Notes:

• Eject Menu: Replace Clone with Copy/Paste
  • Allows an image to be copied to a different folder
  • Navigation mode: Copy to selected folder by holding Select for 1.5s
• FF.CFG: New option rotary=v2 to use v2.x encoder logic
  • Fixes a very few encoders which don't work with stricter v3.x logic
• FF.CFG: New option twobutton-action=htu
  • Implements hundreds/tens/units button actions of the factory firmware
• IMG.CFG: New parameters:
  • tracks: Track-scoped parameter lists (geometry can vary by track)
  • h: Override default IDAM Head field
  • gap4a: Override default post-index track gap
• IMG.CFG: Tag names are now case insensitive
• IMG.CFG: Tag by file size and/or name
• IMG.CFG: Implement some example configurations under examples/Host/
• IMG: Fix some of the more bizarre default track geometries

Release Notes:

• Amiga, ADF: Fix X-Copy verified writes with out-of-order sectors
  • Remember the latest written sector order for current cylinder
  • Forgotten after head step or disk eject but sufficient for X-Copy
• FF.CFG: New interface= options jppc and jppc-hdout
  • jppc: pin2=nc, pin34=RDY, Japanese PC standard
  • jppc-hdout: As above but pin2=HD_OUT, similar to ibmpc-hdout
  • akai-s950 is retained as a legacy alias for jppc-hdout

Release Notes:

• OLED/LCD: Fix potential minor display corruption
  • Only seen with 128x64 OLED displays, bottom right corner
• alt/logfile: Write FFLOG.TXT to correct folder (root or FF/)
• IMG, DSK: Various cleanups to sector-write handling

Release Notes:

• DSK: Fix infinite loop when trying to open a bad DSK image file
• Quick Disk: Restart read stream immediately after a write
  • QD support now works on Sharp MZ-800
• IMG.CFG: Remove [default] stanza from example config
  • Users copying the example file will no longer break their IMG files

Release Notes:

• Rotary encoder: Velocity curve during image navigation
  • Fast spin of the encoder skips multiple entries per click
• LCD/OLED/OSD: Fix image name when display is wider than 24 characters
• HFE: Fix double-step HFE images (broken since v3.14a)
• HxC Compat: Strip filename extension from image name display row

Release Notes:

• New stable release series
• Improve rotary encoder robustness by sampling at 4x higher rate

This is a stable release candidate: PLEASE TEST!

Release Notes:

• Properly implement non-existent tracks as empty / unformatted
  • In particular this avoids writing tracks beyond end of disk image
  • See issue #309: Could corrupt HFE images
• Akai IMG: Implement track skew (faster access and fixes Oberheim DPX)
• Speaker: Rate-limit step pulses at the speaker
  • Avoids high-freq chirp in Direct Access mode and Gotek-aware fast loaders
• HxC Compat, v9-FF:
  • Atari ST keymap is now QWERTY
  • Remove unused settings from drive setup menu
  • Fix the search/filter box (Esc and Backspace keys)

Release Notes:

• FF.CFG: New option write-drain=eot
  • Fixes writes to Gotek on Amstrad PPC series (#320)
• FF.CFG: New option display-on-activity=sel
  • Turns on display whenever the Gotek drive is selected by host
• HFE: Respect double-step header flag
  • Fixes 180k disk images on Amstrad PCW (#318)

Release Notes:

• IMG: Support IBM 3174 1.2M and 2.4M formats (host=ibm-3174)
• HxC: Fix HxC mode with no file selector (AUTOBOOT.HFE)
• FF OSD: Fix dual-display operation with slower OLED
  • Wait for OLED to initialise when display-type=oled...

Release Notes:

• LCD/OLED: Fix subfolder name, as shown in 3- & 4-row displays
  • Subfolder wasn't updated correctly when moving to parent (..) folder

Release Notes:

• IMG: Fix density-select pin output for HD images
  • Fixes 'pin02=dens' and 'interface=ibmpc-hdout'
  • Bug has existed since v2.2a
• HxC Compat, v8-FF: Fixes startup crash on Atari ST
• USB: Fix buffer overflow when parsing string descriptors
  • Fixes crash with recent SanDisk Ultra Fit drives
• GCC9 build fixes

Release Notes:

• IMG: Fix density-select pin output for HD images
  • Fixes 'pin02=dens' and 'interface=ibmpc-hdout'
  • Bug has existed since v2.2a
• Rotary Encoder: Improve tracking
  • Higher frequency, and better debounce algorithm

Release Notes:

• USB: Fix buffer overflow when parsing string descriptors
  • Fixes crash with recent SanDisk Ultra Fit drives
• HxC Compat, v8-FF: Fixes startup crash on Atari ST
• Amiga: Fixes for "interface = amiga" setting
• TR-DOS (TRD): Fix geometry when TR-DOS header is incomplete
• Quick Disk: Larger read/write window in default blank image
• GCC9 build fixes

Release Notes:

• Quick Disk Bug Fixes (QD Systems Only!!!)
  • Fix write offsets and lengths within QD track
  • Filter ADF images from navigator: only QD images supported
  • Extra logging in FFLOG.TXT for debug purposes
• Amiga AutoSwap new title: Gobliiiins
  • Thanks to Arkadiusz Makarenko!
  • https://github.com/keirf/FF_AutoSwap/wiki/Downloads

Release Notes:

• New Main Menu: Press Prev/Next or Select with no Flash drive inserted
  • Factory Reset, Firmware Update, OSD Config
• OSD: Must be updated to latest version: v1.7 or later!
• OSD: Receive Gotek button commands via I2C
• OSD: Default to 40 columns if no other display is connected
• TR-DOS (TRD): Fix geometry detection based on TR-DOS header

Release Notes:

• FF OSD support
  • Bus sharing with existing LCD/OLED display
  • Gotek buttons can be remoted to FF OSD for OSD configuration

Release Notes:

• FF.CFG: New Disk-Change Reset option: chgrst=delay-N
  • Automatically clears the DSKCHG signal Nx0.5s after disk insertion
  • chgrst=delay-3 fixes Disk Change on Ensoniq EPS synths
• Change head-step signal handling to reduce interrupt rate
• OLED/LCD: Fix current-folder display line for image-on-startup=init|static
  • image-on-startup=static: Please note the static image is now specified in INIT_A.CFG

Release Notes:

• OLED: New default layout for 128x64 displays
• LCD: Support 20x4 character displays
• LCD: Row ordering is configurable
  • FF.CFG: Rename oled-text= to display-order= to reflect this
• Eject menu: Confirmation required for Delete/Clone operations
• Trackball: Reduce jitteriness by adding simple inertia