H-EvA-K used our news submit to tell us
about a software being developed by a member of CD Freaks, Truman. According
to his site; It is a prototype CD reading and writing tool that he is
developing for the public as cookie ware.
01/10/2003. Version 1.2 beta
8:
Bugs fixed:
Fixed a bug not all drives were listed.
Fixed recognising CD mode format of tracks.
Fixed generating
single 2448 byte image file.
In 'CD To Image' the lead-in size
produced a file that was smaller than what you entered, i.e. less 150
sectors. This was okay before, because I gave wrong instructions on
how to calculate lead-in size! This has been fixed now.
Additions/changes:
Added a cyclic secondary buffer - this
should now allow you to write at higher than 8x speed without buffer
underrun. At the moment it uses a default of 1/7 of total physical
system RAM.
Added 2 extra features in to sector viewer: De-interlace
sub-ch and yellow book scrambling options.
Added icon made by Sam
donated to me from cdfreaks forum - thanks.
Added calculation of set
pregap 1 to be written at LBA 0 in 'Image To CD'.
Added 'Read ATIP' in
'CD To Image' which calculates the lead-in length for a blank CDR/W.
Added CD mode 1 for lead-in generation into 'CD To Image'.
In
'ATIP' the buffer is now zeroed so that pressed CDs will show zeroed info,
which makes more sense. Some drives actually reported back with no
error on pressed CDs when issuing the ATIP command.
Changed the way
the program uses the MMC select10/sense10 commands - maybe more drives are
supported now - haven't tested on stubborn drives.
Changed .LI1 and
.LI2 extensions to more appropriate ones .LI and .PG1 respectively.
The generated .LO file now includes 2s of P sub-ch set to 0 at the
start - in accordance with yellow book.
Added a newer way to skip
sector positions. |
Truman goes on to say; Although the program is just
about usable, even at this stage it still needs a lot more work. I plan to
implement as many features in it as possible and to also get the public to test
the program. My design goal is to make an experimental tool that will have
some really nice options for experiments on reading and writing data from/to
CDR(W) media. I already have a gigantic wish list of features to include,
but time and knowledge will determine if they will be implemented.
Of course we can discuss this software in the recording forum.
Source: xcdtool.pwp.blueyonder.co.uk
