What's new in Disk Jockey
v3.4.5 (November 2024)
- Disk-O-Matic can now properly detect and parse some Mac Plus-specific hard drive images. This format is quite rare so if you see the Mac Plus icon appear, you're lucky :)
v3.4.3 (October 2024)
- Better detection of some ISO images. Disk-O-Matic should now open more types of ISOs.
v3.4.2 (June 2024)
- Fixed a bug that could cause some HFS+ images to crash Disk Jockey. Sorry :/
v3.4.1 (June 2024)
- Improved detection of some Mac images lacking a device descriptor.
v3.4 (June 2024)
- Disk-O-Matic now understands HFS+ (Mac OS Extended). Revisit your disk images and restore old files from the late Nineties! If you've ever opened a disk image and all you could see was a file named "Where_have_all_my_files_gone?", this was because it was an HFS+ volume wrapped in an HFS container. The HFS+ volume will now be properly displayed. Thanks to mabinog1an for providing some very useful test material.
- Did you know that ProDOS supported resource forks, just like HFS? Now, thanks to @uliwitness@chaos.social, I do too, and so does Disk-O-Matic. If you've had ProDOS files coming from your IIgs (like HyperCard stacks) not appearing, this is why. And you can export both the data and resource forks too.
- Speaking of resource forks, it's now possible to extract them separately from the file so you can look at them without digging around using Terminal. Look in the new "Export" dialog.
- Whenever possible, Disk-O-Matic now shows the type of file in the file browser. It's much easier to pinpoint which are text files, which are images and which are applications, for example.
- When you extract or convert a disk image, the standard file picker dialog now appears instead of DJ chucking everything in the Downloads folder. It's one more click, but it's way more flexible.
- I guess that makes me uncool but there is still no AI in Disk Jockey. It's all hand-made with human fallibility, questionable design choices and, most of all, love for the craft. And coffee.
- All together now: bug fixes and performance improvements.
v3.3 (May 2024)
- The Disk-O-Matic "Save as JSON" menu now provides the option to include file and folder details. If you have a disk image containing many files, it could take a little while to export.
- Zip disk images created for BlueSCSI properly get the new "ZP" prefix.
- Much improved multithreading for long running tasks.
- Bug fixes and, you guessed it, performance improvements.
v3.2 (April 2024)
- Disk-O-Matic can now export the details of a disk image as a JSON file.
- Removable media like Zip disks now have a dedicated section in the Classic Configuration menu and get named properly.
v3.1.1 (March 2024)
Fixed a bug in the Macintosh partitioner where some injectable partitions reported a 0 KB size.
v3.1 (March 2024)
- MSA image support for Atari ST. Not only can you now look inside them (and extract files from them), you can also convert them to regular .ST images.
- When available, Disk-O-Matic now shows the disk's geometry (heads, tracks and sectors).
- More consistent behavior of Disk-O-Matic buttons.
- Bug fixes! Performance improvements!
v3.0.1 (March 2024)
Bug fixes, mostly in the Lido SCSI driver replacement code.
v3.0 (March 2024)
Marchintosh 2024 is upon us and Disk Jockey is there for it! Most of its bits have been rewritten from scratch and it has learned tons of new tricks.
New Image Creators
Create blank disk images for the other old machines you have kicking around:
- Apple II: Create floppy images in DOS 3.3 and ProDOS format, and also ProDOS disk images and image sets for the amazing SP2SD!
- Atari ST: Create images of single side + double density, double side + double density and double side + high density (oooh fancy) floppies.
- Amiga: Create images of Double Density and High Density floppies, and also Hard Disk Files like those used by WinUAE.
- Akai samplers: Create hard drive images for your sampler, ready to be used in BlueSCSI.
- Giant files of emptiness: Tired of using the dd command in the Terminal? Create disk images containing absolutely nothing with the click of a button. And it's faster, too!
Smarter Image Analyzer (Disk-O-Matic)
Dig into the mysteries of old disk images. In addition to Macintosh images, you can now look into images of the following format:
- Apple II ProDOS and DOS 3.3 images
- Atari ST raw floppy images
- Amiga floppies and hard drives (even those created by SCSI devices)
- And more!
Interface changes
- Many disk images can be open at the same time.
- R.O.N. mode is here and you can now create gigantic disk images up to 256 GB in size!
- Choose the destination folder of your disk images (you're no longer confined to the Downloads directory).
- Extract files and whole folders out of your disk images.
- And many more!
Previously in Disk Jockey
- v2.5.2 (2023010): BlueSCSI v2 support. Bug fixes.
- v2.5 (20221015): Multiple partitions, ProDOS love and self-updating.
- v2.1 (20220722): Disk Jockey Jr (
djjr
) lets you create disk images from the command line on macOS. An issue where some device images with a replaced Lido SCSI driver would show their HFS partitions as read-only has been corrected.
- v2.0.1 (20220712): Bug fix. This version corrects a crash that would sometimes occur when dealing with an HFS partition containing a large number of files.
- v2.0 (20220708): Disk-O-Matic can analyze your existing images. Bug fix: Images with a SCSI driver now work on all Macs, from the Plus to the Power Macintosh G3.
- v1.6 (20220428): Corrected an issue that could cause some PowerPC Macs to crash with a Sad Mac on startup.
- v1.5 (20220415): Improved the disk name name generation code and fixed a bug that caused BlueSCSI to not recognize some disk image names (because they were longer than 32 characters).
- v1.4 (20220402): The SCSI ID selector was not disappearing properly (purely cosmetic).
- v1.3 (20220401): Couple of bug fixes
- v1.2 (20220331): Disk Jockey now runs on Mac OS 10.11 and up! Also, some interface tune-ups
- v1.1 (20220329): Bug fix for the SCSI driver not loading on all configurations
- v1.0 (20220328): First release!