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[News] First version of Arjuna, new Windows drivers for CatweaselANN.lu
Posted on 08-Feb-2004 01:39 GMT by Jens Schönfeld21 comments
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Arjuna is a modular, expandable solution to access floppy disks from many different systems. It supports the Catweasel Controller to read and write formats not compatible with the standard PC controller. Arjuna is written in C++ and uses Qt for it's GUI. The project by Christoph 'Doc Bacardi' Thelen now has it's own homepage and a mirror on our webspace. The first version 0.6beta is available for download there.

Arjuna is a project that reaches very far into the past, digging deep into almost forgotten knowledge about data storage. At the same time it focusses on the future as a universal tool for data restauration and conversion. Hoping to find a lot of developers to contribute floppy disk formats, Christoph is trying to make this a Sourceforge project.

The Windows version of Arjuna needs an updated driver for the Catweasel to work properly. Download this version here (86K, experimental).
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First version of Arjuna, new Windows drivers for Catweasel : Comment 6 of 21ANN.lu
Posted by Don Cox on 08-Feb-2004 14:37 GMT
In reply to Comment 5 (Jens Schönfeld):
"I take post #3 as a question "will this be ported to Amiga", and I answer this with "yes". Not sure when, and not sure if it's going to be an overlay library or a real MUI port. Since it's desirable to keep the source as portable as it is right now between Mac, Linux and Windows, some Qt-like thing for the Amiga would be ideal. However, I'm not sure if this can be done in an acceptable timeframe, so it might be a MUI port in the beginning."

A MUI port would be ideal, IMO. I see no reason for anything else.


"Any developers welcome. We've got literally hundreds of disk formats to implement. We also need a Mac developer to implement a basic driver that allows access to the Catweasel hardware. Core routines are provided in C, just add these to a driver frame and you're done (Arjuna only uses direct raw access to the disk, all other functions that the Windows and Linux drivers provide are not used)."

Years ago we had a special setup involving a PC (DOS not Windows) with an ISA card and software for reading hundreds of disk formats. Most of them were cp/m formats. Every cp/m computer had a unique format, but they were just combinations of a few basic variables such as sector size, order of sectors on a track, double/single sided, etc. There was a program for trying to identify the format of an unknown disk - very useful.

It came with a stack of drives - 8 inch, 5 inch (2 types), 3.5 inch and 3 inch. The main market was for printing companies, which received documents on a wide variety of disks.

I think now the market will be librarians and archivists. And retro computing hobbyists, of course.
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