diskii

Note: diskii is not stable yet! I don't expect to remove functionality, but I'm still experimenting with the command syntax and organization, so don't get too comfy with it yet.

diskii is a commandline tool for working with Apple II disk images.

It is also a library of code that can be used by other Go programs.

Its major advantage is that it's written in Go, hence cross-platform.

Its major disadvantage is that it mostly doesn't exist yet.

It rhymes with “whiskey”.

Discussion/support is in #apple2 on the retrocomputing Slack (invites here).

Goals

Eventually, it aims to be a comprehensive disk image manipulation tool, but for now only the applesoft decode command works.

The library code aims (a) to support the commandline tool operations, and (b) to replace the "read and write disk images" code of the goapple2 emulator.

Current disk operations supported:

Feature	DOS 3.3	NakedOS/Super-Mon
catalog	✅	✅

Installing/updating

Assuming you have Go installed, run go get -u github.com/zellyn/diskii

You can also download automatically-built binaries from the latest release page. If you need binaries for a different architecture, please send a pull request or open an issue.

Short-term TODOs/roadmap

• Build per-platform binaries for Linux, MacOS, Windows.
• Implement CATALOG, deletion, and creation of files in DOS 3.3 images.

Related tools

• http://a2ciderpress.com/
• http://applecommander.sourceforge.net/
• https://github.com/cybernesto/dsktool.rb
• https://github.com/cmosher01/Apple-II-Disk-Tools
• https://github.com/madsen/perl-libA2
• https://github.com/markdavidlong/AppleSAWS
• https://github.com/dmolony/DiskBrowser
• https://github.com/deater/dos33fsprogs
• https://github.com/jtauber/a2disk