CiderPress2

CiderPress II

CiderPress II is a software tool for working with disk images and file archives associated with vintage Apple computers, notably the Apple II line and early Macintoshes. It runs on modern desktop and embedded systems.

The program allows you to perform various operations on files stored in disk images and file archives: list, add, extract, import, export, copy, rename, move, delete, test, print, and set attributes. You can create new disk images in various formats and sizes, get metadata, set metadata, copy blocks or sectors, edit blocks or sectors, and view raw tracks, as well as copy and replace whole disk partitions.

For installation instructions, see the install guide.

Current status:

• The command-line tool runs on Windows, macOS, and Linux (anywhere .NET 8 runs).
• The desktop GUI is written for Windows, but can be made to run on other systems with Wine emulation.
• Brief (3 min) video introduction to v1.0: https://youtu.be/ZrUfNzscq3g

Getting Started

Tutorials and reference documentation are available on the web site.

A variety of disk images and file archives used for testing can be found in the TestData directory.

Source Code and License

See Source Notes for a brief tour of the source tree.

The source code is licensed under Apache 2.0 (http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0), which makes it free for use in both open-source programs and closed-source commercial software. The license terms are similar to BSD or MIT, but with some additional constraints on patent licensing. (This is the same license Google uses for the Android Open Source Project.)

Images and documentation are licensed under Creative Commons ShareAlike 4.0 International (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/).