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<P STYLE="margin-top:0;margin-bottom:0;"><FONT FACE="MS Sans Serif" SIZE="4">Features</FONT></P>
<P STYLE="margin-top:0;margin-bottom:0;"><FONT FACE="MS Sans Serif" SIZE="2">&nbsp;</FONT></P>
<P STYLE="margin-top:0;margin-bottom:0;"><FONT FACE="MS Sans Serif" SIZE="2">CiderPress is a fully-functional "ShrinkIt for Windows" that can operate on disk images and file archives.&nbsp; Files can be viewed or extracted in their native form, or converted to formats better suited for browsing in Windows.</FONT></P>
<P STYLE="margin-top:0;margin-bottom:0;"><FONT FACE="MS Sans Serif" SIZE="2">&nbsp;</FONT></P>
<P STYLE="margin-top:0;margin-bottom:0;"><FONT FACE="MS Sans Serif" SIZE="2">When working with NuFX (ShrinkIt) archives and DOS 3.2/3.3, ProDOS, HFS, and UCSD Pascal disk images, you can:</FONT></P>
<UL STYLE="margin-top:0;margin-bottom:0;margin-left:17pt;"><LI><FONT FACE="MS Sans Serif" SIZE="2">View files without having to extract them first.&nbsp; Special converters are provided for several popular file formats.</FONT>
<LI><FONT FACE="MS Sans Serif" SIZE="2">Extract files and directories, optionally converting them.&nbsp; File type information can be preserved, using the method developed for use in NuLib2.</FONT>
<LI><FONT FACE="MS Sans Serif" SIZE="2">Add individual files or entire directories full of files.</FONT>
<LI><FONT FACE="MS Sans Serif" SIZE="2">Copy &amp; paste files through the Windows clipboard.</FONT>
<LI><FONT FACE="MS Sans Serif" SIZE="2">Rename files.</FONT>
<LI><FONT FACE="MS Sans Serif" SIZE="2">Delete files or entire subdirectories.</FONT>
<LI><FONT FACE="MS Sans Serif" SIZE="2">Edit file type, auxtype, and access permissions of ProDOS files.</FONT>
<LI><FONT FACE="MS Sans Serif" SIZE="2">Print a listing of the files in the archive.</FONT></UL>
<P STYLE="margin-top:0;margin-bottom:0;"><FONT FACE="MS Sans Serif" SIZE="2">&nbsp;</FONT></P>
<P STYLE="margin-top:0;margin-bottom:0;"><FONT FACE="MS Sans Serif" SIZE="2">On NuFX archives, you can also:</FONT></P>
<UL STYLE="margin-top:0;margin-bottom:0;margin-left:17pt;"><LI><FONT FACE="MS Sans Serif" SIZE="2">Convert a ShrinkIt file archive directly to a ProDOS disk image.</FONT>
<LI><FONT FACE="MS Sans Serif" SIZE="2">Re-compress entries with a different algorithm.&nbsp; All compression methods defined in the NuFX specification are supported, as well as gzip "deflate".</FONT>
<LI><FONT FACE="MS Sans Serif" SIZE="2">Add, update, and delete comments.</FONT>
<LI><FONT FACE="MS Sans Serif" SIZE="2">Test entries or whole archives.</FONT></UL>
<P STYLE="margin-top:0;margin-bottom:0;"><FONT FACE="MS Sans Serif" SIZE="2">&nbsp;</FONT></P>
<P STYLE="margin-top:0;margin-bottom:0;"><FONT FACE="MS Sans Serif" SIZE="2">On disk images, you can also:</FONT></P>
<UL STYLE="margin-top:0;margin-bottom:0;margin-left:17pt;"><LI><FONT FACE="MS Sans Serif" SIZE="2">Create subdirectories.</FONT>
<LI><FONT FACE="MS Sans Serif" SIZE="2">Change volume names and numbers.</FONT></UL>
<P STYLE="margin-top:0;margin-bottom:0;"><FONT FACE="MS Sans Serif" SIZE="2">&nbsp;</FONT></P>
<P STYLE="margin-top:0;margin-bottom:0;"><FONT FACE="MS Sans Serif" SIZE="2">Read-only access (viewing and extracting files, but not adding or deleting) is supported for Binary II archives, AppleLink Compression Utility archives, and CP/M and RDOS disk images.</FONT></P>
<P STYLE="margin-top:0;margin-bottom:0;"><FONT FACE="MS Sans Serif" SIZE="2">&nbsp;</FONT></P>
<P STYLE="margin-top:0;margin-bottom:0;"><FONT FACE="MS Sans Serif" SIZE="2">The file viewer can convert several formats for easier viewing on a PC:</FONT></P>
<UL STYLE="margin-top:0;margin-bottom:0;margin-left:17pt;"><LI><FONT FACE="MS Sans Serif" SIZE="2">ProDOS text with carriage returns to Windows "CRLF" format.</FONT>
<LI><FONT FACE="MS Sans Serif" SIZE="2">DOS 3.3 "high ASCII" text to plain text.</FONT>
<LI><FONT FACE="MS Sans Serif" SIZE="2">CP/M text to plain text.</FONT>
<LI><FONT FACE="MS Sans Serif" SIZE="2">UCSD Pascal text to plain text.</FONT>
<LI><FONT FACE="MS Sans Serif" SIZE="2">UCSD Pascal code to partially analyzed hex dump.</FONT>
<LI><FONT FACE="MS Sans Serif" SIZE="2">Applesoft BASIC to text (matches output of "LIST" command), with or without color syntax highlighting.</FONT>
<LI><FONT FACE="MS Sans Serif" SIZE="2">Integer BASIC to text (matches output of "LIST" command), with or without color syntax highlighting.</FONT>
<LI><FONT FACE="MS Sans Serif" SIZE="2">Apple /// Business BASIC to text (matches output of "LIST" command), with or without color syntax highlighting.</FONT>
<LI><FONT FACE="MS Sans Serif" SIZE="2">S-C Assembler to text.</FONT>
<LI><FONT FACE="MS Sans Serif" SIZE="2">LISA tokenized assembly source to text.</FONT>
<LI><FONT FACE="MS Sans Serif" SIZE="2">Merlin assembly source to properly-tabbed text.</FONT>
<LI><FONT FACE="MS Sans Serif" SIZE="2">65C02/65816 code disassembly, to //e or IIgs "monitor" output.</FONT>
<LI><FONT FACE="MS Sans Serif" SIZE="2">Magic Window / Magic Window II "formatted" files to text.</FONT>
<LI><FONT FACE="MS Sans Serif" SIZE="2">AppleWorks Word Processor to Rich Text Format (supports left/right margins, bold, italic, etc).</FONT>
<LI><FONT FACE="MS Sans Serif" SIZE="2">AppleWorks Database to CSV (suitable for import into Excel or other applications).</FONT>
<LI><FONT FACE="MS Sans Serif" SIZE="2">AppleWorks Spreadsheet to CSV.</FONT>
<LI><FONT FACE="MS Sans Serif" SIZE="2">Teach (GWP $5445) document to Rich Text Format.</FONT>
<LI><FONT FACE="MS Sans Serif" SIZE="2">AppleWorks GS Word Processor (GWP $8010) to Rich Text Format.</FONT>
<LI><FONT FACE="MS Sans Serif" SIZE="2">Hi-Res graphics to 560x384 16-color .BMP (B&amp;W or color with half-pixel shifting).</FONT>
<LI><FONT FACE="MS Sans Serif" SIZE="2">Double Hi-Res graphics to 560x384 16-color .BMP (B&amp;W or color).</FONT>
<LI><FONT FACE="MS Sans Serif" SIZE="2">Super Hi-Res graphics to 640x400 256-color .BMP.&nbsp; Supported formats include unpacked ($c1/0000), Paintworks ($c0/0000), packed ($c0/0001), DreamGrafix ($c0/8005), and Apple Preferred Format ($c0/0002) up to 1024x1024.</FONT>
<LI><FONT FACE="MS Sans Serif" SIZE="2">3200-color Super Hi-Res graphics to 640x400 24-bit .BMP.&nbsp; Supported formats include unpacked ($c1/0002 or ".3200"), packed (".3201"), DreamGrafix ($c0/8005), and Apple Preferred Format ($c0/0002 with "MULTIPAL").</FONT>
<LI><FONT FACE="MS Sans Serif" SIZE="2">Print Shop and Print Shop GS graphics to 88x52 .BMP (B&amp;W and color, respectively).</FONT>
<LI><FONT FACE="MS Sans Serif" SIZE="2">Macintosh Paint images to 576x720 2-color .BMP.</FONT>
<LI><FONT FACE="MS Sans Serif" SIZE="2">Apple IIgs resource forks are split into individual resources and displayed as hex dumps.</FONT></UL>
<P STYLE="margin-top:0;margin-bottom:0;"><FONT FACE="MS Sans Serif" SIZE="2">&nbsp;</FONT></P>
<P STYLE="margin-top:0;margin-bottom:0;"><FONT FACE="MS Sans Serif" SIZE="2">In addition, any fork of any file can be viewed in its "raw" state or as a hex dump.</FONT></P>
<P STYLE="margin-top:0;margin-bottom:0;"><FONT FACE="MS Sans Serif" SIZE="2">&nbsp;</FONT></P>
<P STYLE="margin-top:0;margin-bottom:0;"><FONT FACE="MS Sans Serif" SIZE="2">CiderPress has the ability to identify most common disk image formats, and view or extract files directly from them.&nbsp; Supported file formats include:</FONT></P>
<UL STYLE="margin-top:0;margin-bottom:0;margin-left:17pt;"><LI><FONT FACE="MS Sans Serif" SIZE="2">Universal Disk Images (.2mg), all formats</FONT>
<LI><FONT FACE="MS Sans Serif" SIZE="2">DiskCopy 4.2 (.dsk)</FONT>
<LI><FONT FACE="MS Sans Serif" SIZE="2">Copy II Plus (.img)</FONT>
<LI><FONT FACE="MS Sans Serif" SIZE="2">Sim //e HDV images (.hdv)</FONT>
<LI><FONT FACE="MS Sans Serif" SIZE="2">TrackStar images (.app)</FONT>
<LI><FONT FACE="MS Sans Serif" SIZE="2">Dalton's Disk Disintegrator (DDD 2.1+, DDD Pro 1.1+) (.ddd)</FONT>
<LI><FONT FACE="MS Sans Serif" SIZE="2">FDI "raw" images of 5.25" and 3.5" disks (.fdi)</FONT>
<LI><FONT FACE="MS Sans Serif" SIZE="2">Unadorned sector-format files (.po, .do, .d13, .raw, .hdv, .iso)</FONT>
<LI><FONT FACE="MS Sans Serif" SIZE="2">Unadorned nibble-format files (.nib, .nb2)</FONT>
<LI><FONT FACE="MS Sans Serif" SIZE="2">Any of the above compressed with gzip (.gz)</FONT>
<LI><FONT FACE="MS Sans Serif" SIZE="2">Any of the above compressed with zip (.zip)</FONT>
<LI><FONT FACE="MS Sans Serif" SIZE="2">ShrinkIt (NuFX) compressed disk images (.shk, .sdk)</FONT></UL>
<P STYLE="margin-top:0;margin-bottom:0;"><FONT FACE="MS Sans Serif" SIZE="2">&nbsp;</FONT></P>
<P STYLE="margin-top:0;margin-bottom:0;"><FONT FACE="MS Sans Serif" SIZE="2">The file format, filesystem, and sector ordering are determined automatically for most disks.&nbsp; The settings can be overridden if necessary.&nbsp; The recognized disk formats are:</FONT></P>
<UL STYLE="margin-top:0;margin-bottom:0;margin-left:17pt;"><LI><FONT FACE="MS Sans Serif" SIZE="2">DOS 3.2/3.3 (13, 16, or 32 sectors, up to 50 tracks)</FONT>
<LI><FONT FACE="MS Sans Serif" SIZE="2">ProDOS</FONT>
<LI><FONT FACE="MS Sans Serif" SIZE="2">HFS</FONT>
<LI><FONT FACE="MS Sans Serif" SIZE="2">UCSD Pascal</FONT>
<LI><FONT FACE="MS Sans Serif" SIZE="2">CP/M</FONT>
<LI><FONT FACE="MS Sans Serif" SIZE="2">SSI's RDOS (13-sector, 16-sector, and 13 converted to 16)</FONT>
<LI><FONT FACE="MS Sans Serif" SIZE="2">UNIDOS / AmDOS / OzDOS (two DOS volumes on an 800k disk)</FONT>
<LI><FONT FACE="MS Sans Serif" SIZE="2">ProSel Uni-DOS / DOS Master (DOS volumes embedded in an 800K ProDOS disk)</FONT>
<LI><FONT FACE="MS Sans Serif" SIZE="2">CFFA fixed-size partitions (4-part and 8-part formats)</FONT>
<LI><FONT FACE="MS Sans Serif" SIZE="2">Macintosh-style partitioning (for CD-ROMs and SCSI hard drives)</FONT>
<LI><FONT FACE="MS Sans Serif" SIZE="2">///SHH Systeme MicroDrive partitioning</FONT>
<LI><FONT FACE="MS Sans Serif" SIZE="2">FocusDrive partitioning</FONT></UL>
<P STYLE="margin-top:0;margin-bottom:0;"><FONT FACE="MS Sans Serif" SIZE="2">&nbsp;</FONT></P>
<P STYLE="margin-top:0;margin-bottom:0;"><FONT FACE="MS Sans Serif" SIZE="2">Images larger than floppies, such as ProDOS hard drive partition images, are fully supported.&nbsp; Physical media, including floppy disks, CD-ROMs, CFFA-formatted CompactFlash cards, and SCSI hard drives can be accessed directly (assuming you have appropriate hardware).</FONT></P>
<P STYLE="margin-top:0;margin-bottom:0;"><FONT FACE="MS Sans Serif" SIZE="2">&nbsp;</FONT></P>
<P STYLE="margin-top:0;margin-bottom:0;"><FONT FACE="MS Sans Serif" SIZE="2">CiderPress includes a collection of tools:</FONT></P>
<UL STYLE="margin-top:0;margin-bottom:0;margin-left:17pt;"><LI><FONT FACE="MS Sans Serif" SIZE="2">Disk viewer - view disk images as blocks, sectors, or nibblized tracks.</FONT>
<LI><FONT FACE="MS Sans Serif" SIZE="2">Disk image converter - convert disk images from one format to another.&nbsp; Can operate on individual images or perform a bulk conversion on a large set.</FONT>
<LI><FONT FACE="MS Sans Serif" SIZE="2">Disk image creator - create bootable DOS 3.3, ProDOS, or Pascal disk images from scratch.</FONT>
<LI><FONT FACE="MS Sans Serif" SIZE="2">Volume copier - copy all or part of a disk image from one place to another.</FONT>
<LI><FONT FACE="MS Sans Serif" SIZE="2">SST image merge - combine images generated by SST into a single .nib image file.</FONT>
<LI><FONT FACE="MS Sans Serif" SIZE="2">2MG properties editor - edit comments, lock/unlock images.</FONT>
<LI><FONT FACE="MS Sans Serif" SIZE="2">EOL scanner - check for ASCII transfer damage.</FONT>
<LI><FONT FACE="MS Sans Serif" SIZE="2">Import from WAV - extract programs from Apple II cassette tapes.</FONT></UL>
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