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DISK MUNCHER 1.1
THE ULTIMATE IN FAST COPIERS
WRITTEN BY
THE STACK
DOCUMENTATION BY:
THE INSPECTOR
ANOTHER GREAT PROGRAM BROUGHT TO YOU BY
CORRUPT COMPUTING
DISK MUNCHER IS PROBABLY THE FASTEST COPIER AVAILABLE FOR THE APPLE
COMPUTER. (THERE MIGHT BE COPIERS THAT SACRIFICE RELIABILITY FOR
SPEED, AND ARE THUS FASTER.) DISK MUNCHER CAN COPY A DISK IN LESS THEN
30 SECONDS WITH INIT! (ON A 48K SYSTEM). IF YOUR SYSTEM HAS MORE
MEMORY ADDED THRU ADDITIONAL RAM CARDS, DISK MUNCHER WILL BE ABLE TO
COPY A DISK IN EVEN LESS TIME! WHILE DISK MUNCHER IS EXTREMELY FAST
AND RELIABLE, IT IS DESIGNED WITH THE USER IN MIND. DISK MUNCHER HAS
SUCH USER FRIENDLY OPTIONS AS A CATALOG FUNCTION WITH DISK MAP, WRITE
VERIFY, SAVE-ABLE CONFIGURATION, STATUS INDICATORS AMONG OTHERS.
BEFORE YOU CAN EVEN BEGIN TO USE DISK MUNCHER, YOU WILL NEED TO KNOW A
FEW BASIC THINGS ABOUT HOW DISK MUNCHER REFERS TO YOUR DISK DRIVES.
THE SOURCE DISK IS THE DISK YOU ARE COPYING FROM (USUALLY SLOT 6,
DRIVE 1) AND THE TARGET DISK IS THE DISK YOU ARE COPYING TO (USUALLY
SLOT 6, DRIVE 2). THE VALUES FOR SOURCE AND TARGET CAN BE CHANGED, BUT
WE WILL DISCUSS THAT LATER. NOW ON TO USING DISK MUNCHER.
TO START DISK MUNCHER ALL YOU NEED TO DO IS TYPE "BRUN DISK MUNCHER
1.1" FROM DOS. ONCE DISK MUNCHER IS LOADED IN, IT WILL DISPLAY THIS
MENU:
[1] CATALOG SOURCE DISK
[2] CATALOG TARGET DISK
[3] COPY DISK
[4] BOOT DISK
SINCE THE FIRST AND SECOND OPTIONS ARE ALMOST IDENTICAL WE WILL BE
DISCUSSING THEM FIRST. WHEN YOU PRESS EITHER THE '1' OR '2' KEYS, DISK
MUNCHER WILL CATALOG WHAT EVER DISK IS IN THE DRIVE DESIGNATED AS
SOURCE OR TARGET. AFTER THE SCREEN IS FULL, DISK MUNCHER WILL ASK YOU
"PRESS ANY KEY TO CONTINUE". AFTER YOU PRESS A KEY, DISK MUNCHER WILL
CLEAR THE SCREEN, AND DISPLAY MORE FILES. THIS PROCESS WILL CONTINUE
UNTIL ALL THE FILES ARE DISPLAYED. AFTER ALL THE FILES ARE DISPLAYED,
DISK MUNCHER WILL ASK YOU TO "PRESS ANY KEY TO SEE MAP". IT WILL THEN
CLEAR THE SCREEN, AND DISPLAY A MAP OF WHAT SECTORS ARE FREE AND WHAT
SECTORS ARE USED ON YOUR DISK. FREE SECTORS ARE DESIGNATED BY A SPACE,
AND USED SECTORS ARE DESIGNATED BY A PLUS SIGN. THE CATALOG WITH DISK
MAP IS THE ONE FUNCTION OF DISK MUNCHER THAT SETS IT APART FROM ALL
OTHER "FAST" COPIERS. IT ALLOWS YOU TO DETERMINE WHAT DISK YOU ARE
COPYING FROM AND WHAT DISK YOU ARE COPYING TO, IF THERE IS NO LABEL ON
THE DISK, AND YOU CAN DO IT WITHOUT EVER LEAVING DISK MUNCHER!. NOTE:
SOME DISKS DO NOT HAVE A CATALOG OR DISK MAP, OR THE DISK MAP MAY
APPEAR GARBLED. IF YOU ARE UNABLE TO TELL WHAT IS ON THE DISK FROM
THE LABEL OR BECAUSE OF ONE OF THESE CONDITIONS, YOU ARE ADVISED TO
"BOOT" THE DISK TO TRY TO DETERMINE WHAT IT CONTAINS.
NOW THAT YOU KNOW HOW TO CATALOG A DISK, WHY DON'T WE LEARN HOW DO USE
THE ACTUAL COPIER!
WHEN YOU PRESS "3" TO COPY A DISK, THE SCREEN WILL CLEAR AND WILL BE
DIVIDED INTO TWO SEPARATE SECTIONS. THE LEFT SECTION CONTAINS ALL
MESSAGES, WHAT SLOT AND DRIVE THE SOURCE AND TARGET DISKS ARE IN, AND
ALL INFORMATION ABOUT RAM CARDS. THE RIGHT SIDE OF THE SCREEN IS A
STATUS AREA. IT SHOWS WHAT MODE THE COPIER IS IN, AND WHAT TRACK DISK
MUNCHER IS CURRENTLY COPYING. WHENEVER DISK MUNCHER IS ACCESSING THE
DISK IN COPY MODE, IT WILL DISPLAY A "STATUS MARKER" NEXT TO THE TRACK
IT IS ON. THIS IS A LIST OF WHAT THE DIFFERENT STATUS MARKERS
REPRESENT:
INVERSE R - READING FROM CURRENT TRACK
INVERSE W - WRITING TO CURRENT TRACK
INVERSE V - VERIFY WRITE TO CURRENT TRACK
NORMAL R - READ ERROR
NORMAL W - WRITE ERROR
BESIDES THE NORMAL STATUS INFORMATION, THERE IS ONE SUBTLE, BUT NONE
THE LESS IMPORTANT INDICATOR. YOU WILL NOTICE A SPACE REVOLVING AROUND
EACH OF THE SECTIONS. WHETHER THIS SPACE IS REVOLVING CLOCK-WISE OR
COUNTER CLOCK-WISE DETERMINES WHETHER THE WRITE VERIFY IS ON OR OFF.
IF THE SPACE IS REVOLVING CLOCK-WISE, THE VERIFY IS OFF, IF THE SPACE
IS REVOLVING COUNTER CLOCK-WISE, THE VERIFY IS ON.
AFTER DISK MUNCHER DISPLAYS THIS INFORMATION, IT WILL TELL YOU:
"<RETURN> BEGINS COPY, SPACE BAR CHANGES OPTIONS". AT THIS PROMPT, YOU
CAN PRESS RETURN, SPACE BAR , OR CTRL-V. CTRL-V TOGGLES THE WRITE
VERIFY ON OR OFF. IF YOU PRESS RETURN, DISK MUNCHER WILL BEGIN COPYING
THE DISK. (NOTE: IF YOU ARE USING A ONE DRIVE SYSTEM IT WILL PROMPT TO
YOU INSERT THE SOURCE DISK AND PRESS RETURN. YOU WILL HAVE TO SWAP
BETWEEN THE SOURCE AND TARGET DISK. DISK MUNCHER WILL PROMPT YOU WHEN
TO CHANGE DISKS.) WARNING!: DUE TO THE FACT THAT IT IS VERY EASY TO
PUT THE WRONG DISK IN THE DRIVE, YOU ARE ADVISED TO PUT A
WRITE-PROTECT TAB ON THE SOURCE DISK TO PREVENT ACCIDENTAL ERASURE.
IF YOU PRESS SPACE BAR TO CHANGE OPTIONS, DISK MUNCHER WILL MOVE THE
CURSOR TO THE SLOT OF THE SOURCE DRIVE. YOU CAN ENTER A NUMBER HERE
BETWEEN 1 AND 7. AFTER ENTERING THE SLOT NUMBER, DISK MUNCHER WILL
MOVE THE CURSOR TO THE DRIVE NUMBER. HERE YOU MAY ENTER EITHER A 1 OR
2. AFTER ENTERING THE INFORMATION FOR THE SOURCE DISK, DISK MUNCHER
WILL MOVE THE CURSOR TO THE TARGET DISK INFORMATION SECTION. THE
ENTERING CRITERIA FOR THE TARGET DISK IS THE SAME AS THE SOURCE DISK.
NOTE: IF YOU ARE ONE OF THE UNFORTUNATE FEW PEOPLE THAT ONLY HAVE ONE
DRIVE, YOU SHOULD ENTER THE SAME SLOT AND DRIVE ( USUALLY SLOT 6,
DRIVE 1) FOR SOURCE AND TARGET DISKS. AFTER ENTERING THE INFORMATION
ABOUT YOUR DISK DRIVES, DISK MUNCHER WILL MOVE THE CURSOR TO THE RAM
CARD SECTION. THE PROGRAM CAN USE UP TO 4 RAM CARDS IN DIFFERENT
SLOTS. DISK MUNCHER WILL ONLY RECOGNIZE STANDARD 16K CARDS, MOST 32K
CARDS, AND RAM CARDS THAT BANK SELECT IN THE SAME FORMAT AS LEGEND AND
SATURN CARDS DO. (IF YOU DO NOT KNOW HOW YOUR RAM CARD BANK SELECTS,
TRY ENTERING IT'S SLOT NUMBER ANYWAY. DISK MUNCHER WILL IGNORE YOU IF
THE RAM CARD IS NOT A LEGEND OR SATURN TYPE CARD.) NOTE: DISK MUNCHER
WILL NOT RECOGNIZE OR USE ANY RAM CARDS DESIGNED SPECIFICALLY FOR THE
APPLE IIE. BECAUSE OF THE SPECIAL WAY THAT DISK MUNCHER COPIES A DISK,
YOU WILL NEED AT LEAST 224K IN ADDITIONAL RAM CARDS TO COPY A WHOLE
DISK INTO A RAM CARD (IF YOU ARE LUCKY ENOUGH TO HAVE THAT MUCH
ADDITIONAL RAM, DISK MUNCHER WILL ALLOW YOU TO COPY A DISK ONCE
NORMALLY USING THE RAM CARD, THEN COPY THE SAME DISK AGAIN AND AGAIN,
USING THE RAM CARD AS A BUFFER). WHEN YOU ENTER THE SLOT OF YOUR RAM
CARD, DISK MUNCHER WILL SCAN THAT SLOT TO DETERMINE HOW BIG THE CARD
IS, AND WHETHER IT IS A LEGEND, SATURN, 16K, OR 32K CARD, BECAUSE OF
THIS IF YOU ENTER THE SLOT OF A CARD THAT IS NOT A RAM CARD,
UNPREDICTABLE THINGS MIGHT HAPPEN TO YOUR CARD (I.E. A CLOCK CARD
COULD HAVE IT'S TIME CHANGED, ETC...). NOTE: DISK MUNCHER WILL
AUTOMATICALLY SEARCH SLOT 0 FOR A RAM CARD. YOU SHOULD ENTER THE SLOTS
FOR ALL YOUR RAM CARDS. WHEN YOU ARE DONE ENTERING, PRESS SPACE BAR,
AND DISK MUNCHER WILL RETURN YOU TO "INSERT DISKS" PROMPT. NOTE: TO
LEARN HOW TO SAVE THIS CONFIGURATION, SO THAT YOU DON'T HAVE TO TYPE
ALL THE INFORMATION IN EACH TIME YOU WISH TO USE DISK MUNCHER, SEE
APPENDIX C.
YOU HAVE NOW LEARNED HOW TO COPY A DISK, AND CHANGE THE OPTIONS. THE
ONLY THING LEFT TO TELL YOU ABOUT HOW TO EXIT FROM DISK MUNCHER.
EXITING FROM DISK MUNCHER IS VERY SIMPLE, ALL YOU HAVE OT DO IS SELECT
OPTION 4 FROM THE MAIN MENU. AFTER YOU SELECT OPTION 4, DISK MUNCHER
WILL CLEAR THE SCREEN, AND ASK YOU TO "VERIFY BOOT" YOU SHOULD THEN
PUT THE DISK IN THE DRIVE YOU WISH TO BOOT AND PRESS Y FOR YES I DO
WANT TO EXIT, OR N FOR "NO IT WAS A MISTAKE! I WANT TO GO BACK!"
APPENDIX A - SAVING THE CONFIGURATION
THERE ARE TWO TYPES OF CONFIGURATIONS FOR DISK MUNCHER, THE USER
CONFIGURATION, AND THE RESET CONFIGURATION. IN ORDER TO SAVE A
CONFIGURATION, YOU WILL NEED TO KNOW HOW TO ENTER THE MONITOR, CHANGE
BYTES, AND RE-SAVE A BINARY PROGRAM OUT TO DISK. IF YOU HAVE ANY
DOUBTS ABOUT THIS PROCEDURE, DON'T DO IT! YOU COULD DESTROY YOUR COPY
OF DISK MUNCHER.
TO BEGIN WITH YOU WILL NEED TO "BLOAD" DISK MUNCHER FROM DISK. THIS
CAN BE ACCOMPLISHED WITH THE "BLOAD DISK MUNCHER 1.1" COMMAND FROM
DOS. AFTER DISK MUNCHER IS LOADED IN, ENTER THE MONITOR WITH THE
"CALL-151" COMMAND FROM BASIC. THIS IS A LIST OF THE ADDRESSES IN DISK
MUNCHER THAT CORRESPOND TO THE DIFFERENT DEFAULT VALUES FOR THE USER
CONFIGURATION:
LOCATIONS OPTION
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$1000 SOURCE SLOT TIMES 16 + SOURCE DRIVE I.E. $1000=$61
$1001 TARGET SLOT TIMES 16 + TARGET DRIVE I.E. $1001=$62
$1002 SLOT OF RAM CARD 1 TIMES 16.
$1003 SLOT OF RAM CARD 2 TIMES 16.
$1004 SLOT OF RAM CARD 3 TIMES 16.
$1005 SLOT OF RAM CARD 4 TIMES 16.
$1006 VERIFY ON/OFF ($00=OFF,$FF=ON)
$1007 FUTURE EXPANSION.
AFTER YOU HAVE ENTERED YOUR RAM CARD SLOTS IN THE BYTES, YOU HAVE TO
FILL THE REMAINING RAM CARD LOCATIONS LOCATIONS WITH $A0'S (SPACES).
LOCATIONS $1008-$100F ARE THE RESET CONFIGURATION SECTION. THE FORMAT
FOR RESET CONFIGURATION IS THE SAME AS THE USER CONFIGURATION.
AFTER YOU HAVE ENTERED ALL THE INFORMATION YOU CAN RETURN TO DOS BY
TYPING "3D0G". ALL YOU HAVE LEFT TO DO IS "BSAVE" DISK MUNCHER BACK
OUT TO DISK. THIS CAN BE ACCOMPLISHED WITH THE "BSAVE DISK MUNCHER
1.1,A$800,L$11DF" COMMAND. THEN EVERY TIME YOU WANT TO USE DISK
MUNCHER YOU WILL JUST BRUN IT AS USUAL, AND THE USER CONFIGURATION
WILL BE ACTIVE. IF YOU WISH TO USE THE RESET CONFIGURATION YOU CAN
PRESS CTRL-R. YOU CAN THEN SWITCH BACK TO THE USER CONFIGURATION BY
PRESSING CTRL-C.
IF YOU HAVE TWO DIFFERENT COMPUTERS THAT YOU USE DISK MUNCHER ON, YOU
COULD CHANGE BOTH THE USER AND RESET CONFIGURATIONS. THIS WOULD ALLOW
YOU TO USE THE USER CONFIGURATION FOR ONE COMPUTER AND THE RESET
CONFIGURATION FOR THE OTHER.
APPENDIX B - STORY AND PRINCIPLE BEHIND DISK MUNCHER
WHEN WE (THE STACK AND MYSELF) FIRST SAW THE "FAST" COPIERS WE THOUGHT
THEY WERE GREAT, BUT THEY LACKED ONE MAJOR FEATURE: YOU COULDN'T
CATALOG A DISK FROM WITHIN THEIR PROGRAM! SO WE DECIDED TO WRITE OUR
OWN "FAST" COPIER. WHEN WE WERE IN THE PLANNING STAGES, THE STACK IN
ONE OF HIS BRAIN STORMS (THE SAME ONES THAT GAVE YOU THE ROTATING
SPACE, AND THE ZOOM SCREEN CLEAR) DECIDED THAT HE COULD MAKE A FASTER
COPIER. WELL THE PRODUCT OF THAT IDEA WAS DISK MUNCHER.
THE PRINCIPLE BEHIND ALL THIS IS A LITTLE COMPLICATED, AND THIS
EXPLANATION IS JUST THE BACKGROUND AND BASICS BEHIND IT. ON A DISK
INFORMATION IS STORE IN NIBBLES. EACH NIBBLE IS ONLY SIX BITS LONG.
NORMALLY, DOS READS THE NIBBLES IN AND CONVERTS THEM TO EIGHT BIT
FORMAT. WELL THIS IS JUST FINE AND DANDY, BUT IT TAKES A WHILE TO
CONVERT THE NIBBLES, SO THE STACK DECIDED HE WOULD JUST READ THE
NIBBLES AND WRITE THEM BACK OUT WITH OUT CONVERTING THEM. THIS CAN
SAVE A LOT OF TIME WHEN YOU ARE COPYING A WHOLE DISK AND MAKES IT SO
THAT THE DISK DOES NOT HAVE TO BE INITED. BECAUSE THE 6 BIT NIBBLES
TAKE UP MORE ROOM IN MEMORY THAN A 8 BIT BYTE, IT TAKES MORE MEMORY TO
READ A TRACK, THUS THE REQUIRED 224K+ FOR READING IN THE WHOLE DISK.
APPENDIX C - TECHNICAL STUFF
THIS SECTION CONTAINS INFORMATION USEFUL TO THE EXPERICENED
PROGRAMER.
IF BY SOME UNFORESEEN CIRCUMSTANCE YOUR DRIVE HAS THE HEAD VIOLENTLY
MOVED (LIKE DROPPING IT OUT THE WINDOW OR SOMETHING LIKE THAT) YOU CAN
RECALIBRATE IT WITH THE ! AND " COMMANDS. THESE COMMANDS WILL
RECALIBRATE THE SOURCE AND TARGET DRIVES RESPECTIVELY.
ONE OTHER INTERESTING THING YOU MIGHT WANT TO KNOW. THE TRACK MOVE
DELAY TABLE IS STORED AT $1200. IF YOU HAVE A DRIVE THAT CAN SEEK THE
HEAD FASTER THAN NORMAL, THIS MIGHT BE USEFUL.
APPENDIX D - DIFFERENCES BETWEEN VERSION 1.0 AND VERSION 1.1
THE MAJOR DIFFERENCE BETWEEN VERSION 1.0 AND VERSION 1.1 IS THE READ
AND WRITE VERIFY. THERE ARE OTHER MINOR DIFFERENCES, LIKE THE FACT
THAT DISK MUNCHER DOESN'T RECALIBRATE THE HEAD AFTER THE FIRST TIME.
ANOTHER FEATURE ADDED IS EASY ACCESS TO THE TRACK MOVE DELAY TABLE.
OVER ALL THERE IS NOT MUCH DIFFERENCE BETWEEN VERSION 1.0 AND 1.1
WELL THAT IS JUST ABOUT ALL THERE IS TO DISK MUNCHER.
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UPCOMING PROJECTS AND PROGRAMS:
THE NEWEST MEMBER OF CORRUPT COMPUTING, THE TECHNICOLOR PIRATE, IS
ALMOST DONE WITH A VERY INTERESTING AND UNIQUE PROGRAM: SHAPE HUNTER.
THIS IS A PROGRAM THAT WILL ALLOW YOU TO USE AN NMI TO INTERRUPT A
GAME, AND SAVE IT FOR LATER PLAY, OR EVEN EDIT THE SHAPES AND PICTURES
IN THE GAME. THIS IS ONE OF THE MOST IMPRESSIVE PROJECTS CORRUPT
COMPUTING HAS EVER UNDERTAKEN.
STILL IN THE PLANNING STAGES IS A PROGRAM PACKER/UNPACKER, A MODULAR
DOS, A RAM DISK PROGRAM THAT WILL ALLOW YOU TO USE ANY RAM CARD BY ANY
COMPANY AS A RAM DISK, AND A SHAPE HUNTER UTILITIES DISK. ALSO IN THE
PLANNING STAGES IS A CORRUPT COMPUTING NEWSLETTER. IT WILL INCLUDE A
MAJOR ARTICLE ON HOW THE DISK DRIVE WORKS, AND A COMPLETE
INTERPRETATION OF THE P6 AND P6A PROMS.
WELL THAT IS JUST ABOUT IT FOR NOW.
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A WORD TO THE WISE.
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PRIVILEGE OF DOWNLOADING OUR PROGRAMS, THIS SERVICE WILL BE
DISCONTINUED. YOU HAVE BEEN WARNED!
THANK YOU VERY MUCH FOR YOUR COOPERATION.
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