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<h2>What's CiderPress?</h2>
<p>CiderPress provides the features that Apple II enthusiasts need to manage
their disk and file archives.&nbsp; Open them, view their contents, and copy
files between them.&nbsp; There are other programs that provide access to disk and
file archives, but none have as many features or support as many formats as
CiderPress.</p>
<p>CiderPress, introduced in March 2003, was developed by
<a href="http://www.fadden.com/">Andy McFadden</a> and sold as shareware through
<a href="http://www.faddensoft.com/">faddenSoft, LLC</a>.&nbsp; The program was
made free, and the source code released under the BSD license, in March 2007.&nbsp;
A &quot;refresh&quot; to modernize the code was done in January 2015.</p>
<p><b>Key features:</b></p>
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<li><a href="features.htm#shrinkit">Full support for ShrinkIt archives</a>.</li>
<li><a href="features.htm#disks">Full support for all common disk image formats and Apple
II filesystems</a>.</li>
<li><a href="features.htm#physical">Direct access to hard drives, removable media, and CF cards</a>.</li>
<li><a href="features.htm#converter">Converters for text and graphics files</a>.</li>
<li><a href="features.htm#dicc">Disk image creation and conversion utilities</a>.</li>
<li><a href="features.htm#tools">Some handy tools</a>.</li>
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<h3><b>Downloads</b></h3>
<p>The current stable release runs on WinXP and later:
<a href="https://github.com/fadden/ciderpress/releases/download/v4.0.0/CiderPress400.zip"><strong>CiderPress v4.0.0</strong></a>
(23-Jan-2015)</p>
<p>For Win98/ME/2K, download the last version 3 stable release:
<a href="downloads/CiderPress301.zip"><strong>CiderPress v3.0.1</strong></a> (4-Jan-2009)</p>
<p>The installation package includes the main CiderPress app and the Multi-Disk Catalog
utility (MDC).</p>
<h3>Documentation</h3>
<p>Extensive documentation is available from the &quot;help&quot; menu.&nbsp; A
<a href="tutorial/index.htm"><strong>tutorial</strong></a> is available, with some sample
files.</p>
<p>In addition, Walt Perko has created an <a href="Create-CF-Volume.gif">
animated GIF (1.8MB)</a>
demonstrating how to put a 32MB ProDOS volume onto a CF card for use with
a CFFA (useful if your Apple II isn't able to format the CF card first).
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<p>Got questions?&nbsp; Check the <a href="faq.htm">FAQ</a> and <a href="hardware.htm">hardware
compatibility</a> pages.</p>
<p>The <a href="requested-features.htm">requested features</a> list has
some ideas for future releases. See the <a href="change-log.htm">change log</a> to see how
CiderPress has evolved over time.
<h3>Other Downloads</h3>
These install packages include CiderPress and MDC. CiderPress v3.x runs well on
Win98/ME/2K/XP, but may behave a bit strangely on Vista/7/8. CiderPress v4.x
requires WinXP/Vista/7/8.
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<li><a href="https://github.com/fadden/ciderpress/releases/download/v4.0.0-rc1/CiderPress400rc1.zip">CiderPress v4.0.0-rc1</a> (19-Jan-2015) &lt;-- logging is enabled; will overwrite C:\Src\cplog.txt</li>
<li><a href="downloads/CiderPress302d1.zip">CiderPress v3.0.2d1</a> (19-Jan-2014)</li>
<li><a href="downloads/CiderPress301.zip">CiderPress v3.0.1</a> (4-Jan-2009)</li>
<li><a href="downloads/CiderPress300.zip">CiderPress v3.0.0</a> (26-Mar-2007)</li>
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<p>The <a href="http://github.com/fadden/ciderpress/">
GitHub project page</a> has the full source code, as well as places
to file bug reports. Click "releases" to get sources for a specific
release tag. The source for this web site can be found in
the <a href="https://github.com/fadden/ciderpress/tree/gh-pages">
gh-pages branch</a>.</p>
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