v0.28

Release Notes:

• V4: Improve USB bandwidth and double MCU clock speed to 144MHz
  • Fixes gw bandwidth warnings
• Firmware: New command CMD_NOCLICK_STEP.
  • Used by Rob Smith's WinUAE bridge to implement noclick
• gw pin: Split into gw pin set and gw pin get

v0.27

Release Notes:

• EDSK: Support writing KBI-19 protection tracks
• EDSK: Support next IDAM in preceding sector's GAP
• gw seek: New option --motor-on to enable drive motor while seeking
• New firmware command: CMD_GET_PIN to interrogate input floppy pins
• New board type: V4 (using AT32F4xx MCUs)
• New board type: F1 Plus (enhanced BP adapter board by Monideth Pen)

v0.26

Release Notes:

• Support new Greaseweazle model: F7 v3 "Thunderbolt"
• EDSK: Support for writing many protected EDSK files
• Windows 7: Disable jumperless firmware update as it hangs
• Default head-step delay is doubled to 10ms

v0.25

Release Notes:

• EDSK: Support for writing unprotected EDSK files
• SCP: Allow disktype header byte to be specified (eg a.scp::disktype=amiga)
• SCP: Fix import of non-index-cued SCP imnage files
• AmigaDOS: Mark bad sectors with explicit pattern "-=[BAD SECTOR]=-"
• read/write: Add a --retries parameter used if analyse/verify stage fails
• clean: New command to clean a drive using a cleaning disk
• gw: New global option --time to print elapsed time taken by an operation
• gw: Improve reliability of USB connection reset when starting an operation
• flippy: Improve reliability for Panasonic modded drives (find true trk0)
• Linux/Mac: setup.sh better error reporting when run from wrong folder

v0.24

Release Notes:

• Index-cue generated Kryoflux and SCP image files
  • Most external tools and emulators fail with non-cued streams
• gw write: New precomp command-line option (see the wiki)
• gw: Backward compatibility with older firmware (only back to v0.23)
• Safer bootloader update (CRC check before erasing existing bootloader)

v0.23

Release Notes:

• Support new Greaseweazle model: F7 Slim
• Read/write/verify 1.44M IMG image files
• Read/write Kryoflux stream files
• Optimisations:
  • Rewrite read/verify conversion routines in C
  • Fast Amiga track reads (now read an Amiga disk in approx 45 seconds)
• Shrink the Windows distribution zip file
• GW: New track-selection syntax (--track=). See the wiki.

v0.22

Release Notes:

• Support read and write of Amiga ADF image files
• Increase /STEP pulse width to 15us (fix 5.25" drive seek for Arno Olaf)
• Flippy drives: support gw seek down to track -8
• Revised USB protocol

v0.21

Release Notes:

• Support new Greaseweazle model: F7 Lightning Plus
• Fixes for older drives
  • 50us index mask, avoid double triggering on the index signal
  • Increase default head-step delay to 5ms
• Windows: Install the CAPS/SPS IPF library automatically
• New command gw seek to seek to specified drive cylinder
• New syntax for specifying Greaseweazle device name on command line
  • eg gw read --device COM3 a.scp

v0.20

Release Notes:

• gw write: New options --erase-empty and --double-step
• gw update: Fix COM redetect on Windows running Bitdefender
• Support version 2 of Ant Goffart's F7 Plus
• SCP: support legacy single-sided SCP images
  • Automatic import; Export via ::legacy_ss suffix
    • eg. gw read --single-sided my.scp::legacy_ss
• SCP: Support SCP image files generated by FluxEngine

v0.19

Release Notes:

• F7 v2: Support for the new board design
• gw update: Signature and CRC validation checks
• gw read: Fix end-track field in single-sided SCP images