Capabilities
AppleCommanderFX differs from AppleCommander, not only in the user interface, but also in the underlaying APIs. The ultimate goal is to shift all components over. During transition, this will hopefully help understand some of the non-visual differences.
Disk image organizations
| Description | AppleCommander | AppleCommanderFX |
|---|---|---|
Compressed images (*.gz) |
Yes | Yes |
140K DOS-ordered images (*.do, *.dsk, *.d16) |
Yes | Yes |
140K ProDOS-ordered images (*.po) |
Yes | Yes |
13-sector and 16-sector Nibble images (*.nib) |
Yes | Yes |
13-sector DOS-ordered images (*.d13) |
Yes | Yes |
32MB ApplePC Hard Disk images (*.hdv) |
Yes | Yes |
Universal Disk Images (*.2mg, *.2img) |
Yes | Yes |
Disk Copy Images (*.dc) |
Yes | Yes |
WOZ Disk Image, version 1 and 2 (*.woz) - 5.25" only |
Yes | Yes |
Disk formats
| Description | AppleCommander | AppleCommanderFX |
|---|---|---|
| DOS (13-sector) | Read-only | Read-only4 |
| DOS (16-sector) | Read/Write | Read/Write4 |
| UniDOS, OzDOS (800K formats only) | Read/Write | Read/Write4 |
| ProDOS | Read/Write | Read/Write4 |
| Apple Pascal (140K and 800K formats) | Read/Write | Read/Write4 |
| SSI's RDOS (140K formats only) | Read-only | Read-only4 |
| CP/M (probably only 140K formats) | Read-only | Read-only4 |
| Gutenberg Word Processor | Read-only | Read-only4 |
| NakedOS (see the Super-Mon page) | Read-only | Read-only4 |
| GameDOS | N/A | Read/Write/Format3 |
Archive formats
| Description | AppleCommander | AppleCommanderFX |
|---|---|---|
| ShrinkIt | Read-only1 | Read-only2 |
| AppleSingle | Import/Export | Import/Export |
| Apple Archive Format | N/A | Read-only |
| Zip | N/A | Read/Write/Create |
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The archive will be automatically extracted into a ProDOS disk. ↩
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The archive will be handled in it's native format. ↩
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When format is called out, this implies the the disk is bootable as well. ↩
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The "legacy" implementations work through a shim that maps the old APIs into the new APIs. It is a short-term fix. ↩↩↩↩↩↩↩↩↩