• HDDRIVER/HDDRUTIL: Further improvements to GUID Partition Table (GPT) support.
• HDDRUTIL: Fixed bug when redrawing the window name after a drive or device rescan.
• HDDRUTIL: Minor improvements to the user interface.

A list of new features, new platforms, and improvements since HDDRIVER 11 can be found in the overview of changes. The release notes in the HDDRIVER forum provide details regarding each update. The manual in the download archive is always up to date.

The upgrade from version 12.x to 12.79 is free.

SCSI2Pi is a particularly versatile SCSI/SASI device emulation, featuring a SCSI-to-USB bridge and numerous tools. SCSI2Pi profits from running on a full-fledged Linux. Specially configured SD cards or filesystems are not required. Images are simply copied to the Pi via the network. You control SCSI2Pi with the SCSI Control App, a web interface or on the command line. Ataris are especially well supported with the SCSI2Pi Client Tools.

HDDRIVER is the ideal driver also for MiNT and therefore serves once again as the basis for the updated FreeMiNT OS Distro 26.1. This distribution is a drive image with an extensive software collection, which boots a snapshot of MiNT with the HDDRIVER 12 demo version. For a full-fledged MiNT environment, simply replace the demo version with the full version.

There is a new version of the free mass storage tool DISKUS. DISKUS is the Swiss Army knife for working with floppy disks, hard drives, and memory cards. Thanks to SCSI Driver support, it can access any mass storage device (ACSI, SCSI, IDE/SATA/ATAPI, USB). For working with very large media, 64 bit sector numbers are supported. The manual contains many tips for recovering lost data.