I have managed to take all the old 5" floppy disks from my childhood and convert them into atr disk images. Most of them work great in Atari800MacX, but there are several that seem to be corrupt. So I'm wondering if there's any way of previewing an entire disk image as text -- just so I can scroll through it all to get an idea of what it is.
Back in the pre-OSX days, there was an app called Atariwriter Converter that would take individual Atari files and convert them into standard .txt files, and I discovered that if I simply used it to convert an entire disk image instead of an individual file, it would show me the contents of the disk as a text file. The only problem was, it wasn't made for such large files, so it would only show about a quarter of the disk image. But it seems like a simple adjustment could make it accomodate a whole disk, right?
I could use the "Edit Sector" function in Atari800MacX to view the contents of the disk, but the problem there is that it only shows one sector at a time. Trying to view an entire disk one sector at a time would take hours!
Can anyone help me? I'm sure this would probably be simple for someone with a little programming knowledge. Oh, and before anyone asks, yes, I have tried various disk utilities to fix my corrupted disks, but alas, to no avail.
Back in the pre-OSX days, there was an app called Atariwriter Converter that would take individual Atari files and convert them into standard .txt files, and I discovered that if I simply used it to convert an entire disk image instead of an individual file, it would show me the contents of the disk as a text file. The only problem was, it wasn't made for such large files, so it would only show about a quarter of the disk image. But it seems like a simple adjustment could make it accomodate a whole disk, right?
I could use the "Edit Sector" function in Atari800MacX to view the contents of the disk, but the problem there is that it only shows one sector at a time. Trying to view an entire disk one sector at a time would take hours!
Can anyone help me? I'm sure this would probably be simple for someone with a little programming knowledge. Oh, and before anyone asks, yes, I have tried various disk utilities to fix my corrupted disks, but alas, to no avail.