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What it is good for?

“Automatically” identifying floppy disk formats from kryoflux stream files.Enabling “simple” disk imaging workflows that don’t include a disk format identification step during the data capture process.

What does it do?

It processes copies of floppy disk data saved in the kryoflux stream file format, creates a set of disk image files formatted according to assumptions about the disk’s format (e.g. that it is an AmigaDOS disk), and allows the user to try mounting the image files as file systems.

How do you use it?

Clone or download the set of files in the GitHub Repository https://github.com/euanc/DiskFormatIDInstall pyqt4-dev-tools, python27, default-jre (i.e. java)Download the kryoflux software and extract it somewhereNavigate to the kryoflux/dtc directory and run “java - jar kryoflux-ui.jar” then accept the license agreement (assuming you agree to the terms). This seems to be necessary to get the software to work properly.

What is known to be wrong with it?

Quite a lot:It doesn’t format the DTC command line output properly in the results window. It dumps the success-output for each image first then the error-output.The interface layout is all weird.The “choose formats” window doesn’t automatically close.The main settings and the format creation settings are saved in the same JSON file.

What might actually be improved?

It depends on whether it needs improvement and how much interest there is.