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Announcing CiderTag Version 1.1 Now Available for Download

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It seems like only yesterday when CiderTag version 1.0 was released and here
we are, already at version 1.1...

Hey, it was only yesterday:)

Read About It Here:

http://www.aztecmuseum.ca/extras/CiderTag.pdf

Condensed Version

The CiderTag utility is a Windows Command-line Utility for facilitating the
porting of Apple II programs and files from Windows to the Apple II.
It does so by making a copy of the original file, converting what needs to
be converted (at the user's discretion). The copy is automatically named
using the same name as the original file, appended by Apple II file system
information which follows a naming convention called CiderPress File
Attribute Preservation Tags developed by Andy McFadden, the author of
CiderPress. It goes without saying that knowledge of the Apple II File
System is needed to use a sophisticated tool like CiderPress. So when it
comes to using the little CiderTag utility as a helper tool, you will
hopefully already have been seasoned and educated by "Professor Andy" and
indoctrinated into the mysteries of all that sort of CiderPress good-stuff.

I am "on-record" and "guilty as charged" in saying that File Attribute
Preservation Tags are "messy" because they make a Windows directory look
ugly and cryptic. So now let me go "on-record" as saying that Andy's tags
are not only a brilliant idea and well-worthy of the standard they have
become, but also dead-dumb simple to program and to understand and to use.

I've been using CiderPress for quite some years to get my latest programs to
the Apple II and I finally asked myself why I was still using the old
utility that I wrote so long ago to behead my files and then manually
setting their attributes in CiderPress.

So I pulled-out my Windows compiler and very shortly thereafter CiderTag was
"born". Like most programmers I began to tweak my new creation and to
consider how other folks might want to use it. Despite my long-time
resistance to "feature-creep", the potential benefits of my tweaks took
over. A few hours later I thought I was done. But further testing revealed
some additional tweaks that would be desirable like preserving file times of
input files and preserving of "Camel Cased" filenames.

If you develop for the Apple II under Windows, or otherwise work with disk
images to run in emulators like AppleWin and/or work with the porting of
Apple II files to CF cards and other media for use with present-day Apple II
cards like Rich Dreher's CFFA3000 you are likely familiar with CiderPress.

And if so, the CiderTag utility may prove useful to you in "massaging" and
pre-processing your Apple II files in ways that aren't necessarily
straight-forward and otherwise difficult without a lot of "fiddling" and
bother.

Download it Here:

http://www.aztecmuseum.ca/extras/AppleX_UTILITY.zip

If the link above looks stangely familiar, it is.

Yesterday's announcement of "the Resurrection of the Aztec C65 3.2b
Utilities" included in its download (among other "goodies") CiderTag version
1.0. It has since been updated. If you already downloaded it, don't
despair... just clear your browser cache and grab it again.

Like most of what I do, this all comes with source code as well as working
programs. Now you'll have to excuse me while I pour myself a large brandy
for a job well done and wander into the kitchen to see what's cooking on the
other side of reality.

All the best,

Bill Buckels

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