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WARNING
However these programs may not be used commercially in any way,
they may be changed, but not be sold!

DISCLAIMER
Although I'm certain no program causes the loss of data in any way,
using the downloaded programs will be at your own risk!
I'm not responsible for any loss or damage to data files, programs or computer equipment!

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We´ve worked on a revised and extended version of POOLDISK TOO!
It is a double cdrom edition! What is the content of the 2 cd´s?
First of all the existing .ATR images of POOLDISK ONE, extended with the addition
of the complete SAG usergroup library, the complete ABBUC library,
all Compushop magazines, an updated POKEY library, the LACE library,
the SCAT library, AC disk magazines, the electronic version of Mapping The Atari,
disks from other usergroups like S*P*A*C*E, LIAUG, plus internet libraries
like Close To Home and Umich. It totals an amount of 5,000 .ATR disk images.
We´ve converted all pictures from pcx to the jpeg format. this saved a lot of space.
We´ve added more than 300 pictures of scanned cassette covers,
included more than 500 Mb of Webpages (so you don´t have to download them),
and included some interesting movies and other interesting stuff.

The cdroms were released  October 24th, 1998 at the ABBUC´s yearly meeting.
The project took us a little bit longer than we´ve anticipated, sorry ´bout that.
The Pooldisk Too (2 cdroms) is sold for $20, and that included shipping
to anywhere in the world! Please note that some of the material on these
cd´s may not be copied freely due to the copyright of the respective owners!

Order your copy of the Pooldisk Too today, and get the out of this world experience!
Send a money order or a check drawn on an US bank for an amount of $20 to:

Ernest R. Schreurs
Kempenlandstraat 8
5211 VN  HERTOGENBOSCH
The Netherlands
Please include a note telling us the shipping address.
If you have any questions, please feel free to send an email
to Ernest Schreurs, or send a letter to the address mentioned above...

ATARI 8 BIT, REAL POWER WITHOUT THE PRICE!

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Download this Atari 8 bit disk image creator for the Atari XL/XE  ATR2IMGNOW!

Anyway, now there is DIR2ATR. This PC utility let you turn a complete PC directory,
containing Atari 8 bit files, into one or several .ATR (or .XFD) disk images.
It will create the disk images containing DOS 2.5 or MYDOS DOS files.
Or if you do not want to include a DOS on it, that's possible too!
It will create .ATR disk images starting from 001.ATR up to 999.ATR, depending
on the amount of Atari 8 bit files residing in the specified PC directory.
From version 5.04.00 and up it supports SPARTADOS images too.
Spartados supports (sub)directories, so Dir2atr supports does that as well.

THIS IMPROVED VERSION HAS A GRAPHICAL INTERFACE NOW!
Try it, you'll love it. It runs under DOS and Win 3.x, Windows 95 and probably NT.
You can create Single, Medium or Enhanced density disks.
At this moment, double density disks, 720 KB, 1.44MB and 16 MB disks are supported as well!
Version 5.05 supports a Command Line Interface (CLI) and fast drive switching.
Once again, read the supplied text file.
Let me know what you think of this program. Maybe I will consider your comments :)

Download the Atari 8 bit disk image creator for the Atari XL/XE  DIR2ATRNOW!

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But then, if you have the POOLDISK cdrom, or download .ATR or .XFD disk images
from the Internet, how do you know where a specific file is located? You cannot use
your previous tools anymore. And you know, you don´t want to browse through all
those disk images by hand, do you.

You can use XDIR to browse fast through those disk images of course, but after 10 or 20 disks
you tend to loose track. Now if there was an utility which would produce a list of all Atari 8 bit files
on all those .ATR or .XFD images, wouldn´t that be nice. Yes, it would.

And you guessed it, XDIRLIST will just do that!
You can run it from a specific PC directory or specify a file mask.
From that point on it will scan that directory and all subdirectories for .ATR or .XFD disk images.
It will check if the disk image contains a Volume Table Of Contents (VTOC), and if so, it will
retrieve the Atari 8 bit files from it, and write out the results to a disk file.
Run from the root of a drive, it will scan through ALL directories on that drive.
The output file will be placed at: C:\LOCATOR.TXT
The file will look something like below:

Atari File      Size   Lck Ext  Del  Pc Path
========= ==== === === === ===============================================
DOS.SYS        37   No   No   No  C:\XL\DOS25.ATR
DUP.SYS        42   No   No   No  C:\XL\DOS25.ATR

It specifies the Atari 8 bit filename, its size in 128 byte sectors, if it is locked, contains sectors above
sector 720, if it is considered deleted, and the PC disk image path and file.

You can import this list file easily into Microsoft Excel or Microsoft Access.
With the help of these tools, you can easily locate a certain file, or
notice that you miss a certain file from your collection <grin>.
Try this program for yourself, and be amazed.

Download this Atari 8 bit disk image lister for the Atari XL/XE  XDIRLISTNOW!

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Download this Disk Image conversion program for the Atari XL/XE  ATR2XFDNOW!

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Download this Disk Image conversion program for the Atari XL/XE  XFD2ATRNOW!

Keep watching this page for an upcoming version with SpartaDos support...

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Download version 10.05.00 with SpartaDos supportXDIRV10NOW!

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