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- Index
Version History
Isobuster 2.8
Changes:
- Plugin support for IsoBuster: Opening image files
- Plugin support for IsoBuster: Creating image files
- Installing and/or loading plugins via the GUI and command line parameters
- Support for multi-file CUE sheets & PREGAP directive
- Wave file support when loading multi-file CUE sheets
- Support for *.RMG Image files
Improvements:
- Escape sequence in HFS support to deal with HFS bug so that certain HFS file-systems can still be found
- Add file-extensions only when no file extension is present yet for files in the HFS(+) file system
- Updated the HFS extensions database
- Workarounds for buggy ISO9660 file systems created by professional DVD mastering software (affecting commercial DVDs)
- Improved IFO/VOB file system finding in case of badly mastered Video DVDs
- Show layer break address
- Various other GUI improvements
Fixes:
- Fix so that CD-Text is shown again when present in a CDT file (associated to a CUE file)
- Fix so that the associated CDT file is also MD5'ed when the entire image file is MD5'ed
- HFS(+) Fix to find additional file extents (>8) that are referenced from the Overflow file.
- Fixed possibly incorrectly reported size of VIDEO_TS.VOB in the IFO/VOB file system
Isobuster 2.7
Changes:
- Support for interleaved files in the ISO9660 / Joliet file-system (rare but it can happen)
- Support for Right to Left reading languages and their optimized language dlls
- Proper print functionality from the View/Edit text window (formatting, copies, collate etc.)
Improvements:
- Hard coded ignore of drive "HUAWEI Mass Storage" which is a USB modem with CDFS and which returns drive type CDROM, but it behaves badly and causes crashes
- Implemented *.cwk file-type recognition for found files based on their signature
- Ctrl-p (Print) and Ctrl-s (Save) implemented in the View/Edit text window
- Implemented ability to read raw on DVD in [Business] mode when the disc is Blank (some rare drives allow this on readable media without TOC, but they return user data, which is then remapped to raw by IsoBuster)
- Program start-up speed improved by skipping network drives to avoid long delays
- Create MD5 of image filename dialog improved
- Various other GUI improvements
Fixes:
- In rare cases, on Windows OS with particular settings, the program would start with an "Invalid code page" error. This has been fixed
- Fixed issue that made the online check occur despite the user saying No
- Fixed it so that the nag screen doesn't show at the first try
- Fix in CueSheet handling to better deal with image files containing different block sizes per track
Isobuster 2.6
Changes:
- Unicode support via all aspects of the Graphical User Interface (GUI), Dialogs etc.
- Full Unicode support during the installation (e.g. install Chinese on a US system etc.)
Improvements:
- Ability to select text encoding (Unicode, ANSI, UTF8, ..) when saving text from the editor window
- Ability to select text encoding (Unicode, ANSI, UTF8, ..) when saving file-system data (e.g. file-list) to a text file
- Implemented *.qic file-type recognition for found files based on their signature
- During extraction of *.M2TS files, and when there's an error, the replace with zero block option is now available
- Added support for localized Bytes / KB / MB / GB / TB when displaying a byte size (for instance in the right panel)
- Implemented a workaround for badly mastered Roxio (Retrieve) UDF discs, possibly in combination with spanning several discs
- Various other GUI improvements
Fixes:
- Fixed rare and not likely to happen crash during scanning for missing files and folders on a particular dataset where structures resembled FAT but were not
Isobuster 2.5.5
Changes:
- Expert Witness Format image-file support (*.E01, *.S01, *.L01)
Improvements:
- Improved support for Japanese text in DVD-VR Label and Title
- Implemented *.orf file-type recognition for found files based on their signature
- Implemented *.ncd file-type recognition for found files based on their signature
- "Do not bother me with this message" option in message when going online
- Command line parameters: "/nodrives" and "/nosplash"
- Improved error message when it's impossible to open or create a file
- Improved font support in the editor window when displaying text other than sector view
- Do not prompt to make a CUE file if the actual image file was deleted after errors
- The Windows shell command "extract" will now start with "/nodrives"
- Various other GUI improvements
Fixes:
- The program now prompts to overwrite a resource-fork-only file on an NTFS system (rare situation)
- Fixed double prompt for action when NTFS stream(s) and the main file would contain read errors
- When tracks are dragged and extracted, but are split into muliple files, all subfiles are now moved as well from the Drag temp folder to the final folder
- Fixed very rare instance where aborting extraction of a track would cause the next track to be skipped entirely
Isobuster 2.5
Changes:
- Support for UDF Named streams in the core engine
- Ability to extract UDF Named Streams to NTFS Alternate Data streams (default ON)
- Ability to show UDF Named streams as separate files, for analysis, a [Business] feature
- Support for UDF System streams (shown in a separate UDF file system)
- Ability to extract Mac Resource forks (from UDF / HFS or ISO9960) to NTFS Alternate Data streams (default ON)
- Ability to extract Mac Properties (from UDF / HFS or ISO9960) to NTFS Alternate Data streams (combined with resource forks)
- Ability to include folder information when creating a File List (Need to enable in Options)
- Implemented Command Line Parameter "/ep:" to avoid poppups during automated extraction
- Support for VMWare Hard Drive *.vmdk image files containing FAT
Improvements:
- Improvements to detect and find more FAT partitions
- Recognition of Dynamic partitions
- Improved support for *.gi multi-file image files
- Removed "This is a packet written disc. Errors are not abnormal on this disc" warning for all type discs other than CD
- "UD.DAT", a typical BD mastering file, is now part of the files that are automatically recognized when opening an image file.
- Ability to open and support for VMWare Floppy *.flp image files
- Do NOT prompt and ask if a file should be over-written when going through the temp folder (e.g. drag and drop)
- Display 8 characters in a File List (e.g. 00000001) instead of 7, because for BD Dual Layer (which can contain up to 50 GB) 8 characters are required
- Various GUI improvements and changes
Fixes:
- The Toolbar does not change the homepage anymore
- Fixed extremely rare exception error, seen only on one data set, during the "Find missing files and folders" scan
- Fixed issue that prevented BD drive write-ability to be detected properly when no BD disc was mounted
- Fixed negative % progress when verifying files on DL BD discs with over 40 GB of data
IsoBuster 2.4
Changes
- FAT12, FAT16 and FAT32 support
- Show deleted files and folders from the FAT file-system immediately
- "Find Missing files and folders" now includes finding orphaned FAT folders
- "Find Missing files and folders" now includes finding FAT partitions
- Ability to automatically check the boot image file to see if it contains FAT and list its files and folders if available (needs to be turned on in the options)
- Recognition of BDAV files via their signatures, during a scan for missing files and folders
- Custom remappping - Jump Offset and Jump Value - Via Options, [Business] feature for professionals
Improvements:
- Ability to show and use only short file-names from the FAT file-system
- Various options related to mounting and scanning for FAT files and folders
- Added more file-types to the file recognition by signature functionality
- Via Windows itself, right click image file "Extract" feature implemented
- Added *.dsk, *.ima, *.vhd and *.vfd support when opening disk image files (these files, when they contain FAT, will open just fine)
- Date / Time and Size can now also be exported to a file-list
- Changed various default options on a system that hasn't had IsoBuster (recent version) installed yet
- Installer will ask to close IsoBuster when already running to avoid Windows overwrite errors (Installer error 5)
- Display text in the listview (right pane) when folders are empty to avoid confusion
- Various other GUI improvements and changes
Bug Fixes:
- Fixed incorrect length for some boot image file-names
IsoBuster 2.3
Changes
- Support for DVD-VR (show different recordings)
- Support for DVD-VFR discs. Auto-detect the IFO / VOB / BUP file-sets
- Support for the DVD+VR standard on DVD-R/W discs
- Support for DVD+VR 2.0
Improvements:
- DVD+VR Title of recording shown (if available)
- DVD-VR Title of recording shown (if available)
- DVD+VR TimeStamp parsed and shown
- DVD+VR "ULEAD SYSTEMS" workarounds (2.0 without proper Video start address / 2.0 without version byte set)
- Find -VR recordings while scanning (if enough UDF data is found as well)
- Show GMT Offset when date-time is known for an IFO file object
- Auto-recognition support for 2056 byte / block image files
- Added IsoBuster path to DOS box PATH variable
- SectorView via the command line
- Open / Close via the command line
- Set install exe's file-version
- Remember size of ListView Columns
- Display address of Metadata file in UDF properties window
- Improved Time and Date display in ListView. Take User-set variations in acount when present.
- Various smaller improvements.
Bug Fixes:
- Fix for UNC file-paths (and other protocols) when passed via the command line
IsoBuster 2.2
Changes
- Support for command line parameters (See help for syntax)
- Support for mkisofs El Torito Patch (boot image)(Enable in options)
- Support for spanned *.dmg image files. (*.dmg, *.002.dmgpart, *.003.dmgpart)
- Option to specify that extraction of image files is in *.ISO format, rather than *.TAO or *.BIN (See options)
- Image file extraction save dialog, 'save as type' allows to select between *.ISO and *.TAO or *.BIN
- Ability to hide [Business] features via options.
[Business type license]
- Show file extents. (Show the different parts of a file, when it is fragmented on disc)
- Ability to add (change) extents on custom created files (e.g. Lost and Found and Customizable file system)
- Ability to add a customizable file system (where you can add, edit files, for engineering purposes)
Improvements:
- Show [xx%] status in task bar at the bottom, during extraction.
- Improvements for UTF7 and UTF8 interpretation.
- More progress information is exposed when completing a managed image file.
- Various smaller GUI improvements, e.g. icons.
- Various smaller improvements.
- Turned off message asking to turn on admin rights on a system other than XP.
IsoBuster 2.1
Changes
- Added font recognition (e.g. true type) during the scan for missing files based on file signatures.
Improvements:
- Work around for bad behaving drives that return a start addres other than 0, for the first track on a DVD-R, using certain commands
(e.g. seen with LITEON DVD-ROM LTD 163 but can quite possibly also occur with other drives)
- Work around for bad behaving drives that return a track length of 0, for tracks on DVD-R, using certain commands
(e.g. seen with HL-DT-ST GDR8162B (fw 0015) but can quite possibly also occur with other drives)
- Updates, content and translations, in Help, Installer and Program resources.
- Various graphical improvements for VISTA. Text cut due to window width, flickering of progress bar etc.
- Disabled Asynchronous Drag and Drop on VISTA systems again. Sometimes this lead to an error message, the second time a drop was done.
- Various smaller improvements.
Bug Fixes:
- Various smaller bugfixes.
IsoBuster 2.0
Changes
- BD (Blu Ray) and HD DVD support.
- UDF 2.6.
- Implemented the ability to use other system installed code pages, such as MAC, SYMBOL, UTF8 etc., for ISO9660.
- Properties for drives show, next to CD and DVD, also BD and HD DVD Read and Write capabilities.
- Installation and IsoBuster.exe are now code signed to make Windows (more or less) happy.
- Implemented ASynchronous Drag and Drop (file extraction) on VISTA systems to avoid the VISTA over-write dialogue to become stuck under the IsoBuster window, which looks like a hang, but it isn't.
- VISTA style directory icons when ran on a VISTA system.
- Start with font Tahoma on XP or Segoe UI on VISTA.
- Smaller changes here and there.
Improvements:
- Default to SPTI on a VISTA system, even when the app is not running in admin mode.
- Now possible to drag files immediately to the XP writer drive letter (staging area)
- HTML help would not launch on VISTA due to OS changes. This is now correctly implemented.
- On VISTA the Panel with image-file-name was often not properly painted. Changed the Panel with a another Windows component.
- File-extension associations setting in the installer now improved with 'set all', 'clear all' buttons.
- HFS(+) Mac File System, with multiple of 512 byte blocks support.
- Cut long boot image-file name to spec value (if not delimited by terminating zero) to avoid illegal filename according to Windows.
- Improvements in the file-type-recognition code (files found based on their signature): *.qt, *.kbf
- Added *.VRO to the file-type list that gets the dialogue that also offers to replace with all zeroes on read errors.
- Directory (Folder) names are now ALWAYS trimmed on the right side, if the file-system contains such folder names. Windows cannot create a folder name with a trailing blank, so file extractions to that folder would fail.
- Release SPTI handle immediately of all non-optical devices. No reason to keep it open during program execution.
- Do not automatically suggest to create an IBP/IBQ file anymore if the "drive" is in fact an image file ! (any image file).
- Properties' dialogues for files and folders now show the attributes (A,R,S,H,C)
- Various small improvements here and there.
Bug Fixes:
- In certain situations, with certain DVD discs, on certain DVD drives, not all sessions were seen. This is now fixed in the new CD/DVD recognition engine.
- Fix in Boot Emulation size determination. Before, the actual amount of 512 byte blocks was not correctly taken in account. In real life however the implementation was correctly dealing with most situations out there.
- Fixed that +VR recording-sizes were wrapped when the recording is larger than 4 GB
IsoBuster 1.9.1
Changes
- IsoBuster splash screen, which will stick until the main window is loaded,
which can take a while sometimes when a drive is just mounting a 'difficult' disc and is not responding to commands immediately.
- IsoBuster theme in About box.
- Various icon improvements.
- Added option to the GUI (in Options) for administrators to grant low level access to storage devices for other users on the system.
- An object selection is now also available and accessible via the Main Window (File / Selected Object(s))
- Multi-language support in the installer itself.
- Shift+F10 and context menu (between Alt Gr and Ctrl on the right) button click implemented.
- *.NCD (or subsets of *.NCD) image file support.
- The multi-extent icon next to a file or folder is *not* shown anymore by default, after a fresh install,
to avoid confusion, set it in the options if required.
Improvements:
- Updated some of the auto recognizing features for Movie DVDs.
- Changed the more-sessions-in-one-track interpreter to also be able to deal with Nero Cmd made discs
(they don't have the typical Nero signature)
- Work-around for a particular drive problem (DL-DT-ST DVD-ROM GDR8163B, or possibly a generation of drives)
which caused DVD(+R/W) media not to be mounted OK.
Tracks and Sessions were not always correctly identified.
- Improvement to match IBP/IBQ managed image files to actual CDs in certain drives better, has to do with reserved tracks.
- Load read-only (write protect) IBP/IBQ files but put up a dialog warning for the user and allow him/her to unload the image again.
- Addded a dialog for when the IsoBuster.exe has been changed, to warn the user that there might be a virus on the system.
- Filter and replace illegal characters in file names before extraction for all file-systems, not just only for HFS.
- Various internal improvements, staying up to date with drive evolutions.
Bug Fixes:
- Fixed some minor GUI related issues. You probably never noticed.
- Fixed a rare situation where IB could run into an exception error when there is NO file-system layout on the disc.
- Fixed small bug in the HFS file-extension recognition. Not all known extensions were actually assigned.
- Fixed that some extracted files, via the Mac HFS+ file system, were 2KB too big.
For most files this is no problem, but for text files some editors would display the extra rubbish at the end
which is potentionally annoying.
IsoBuster 1.9
Changes
- Ability to create managed image files (*.IBP and *.IBQ)
- Stop creation at any time.
- Continue creation at any time.
- Fill the gaps left during failed reads.
- Use different drives to complete an image of a bad disc.
* In other words the amazing ability to create an image file of a bad disc
using many different drives that all do their part
to finally have a resulting image that can be used to recover all missing data
- Support for multiple "virtual sessions" inside a single session, single track,
on DVD+RW or DVD-RW, created by ASHAMPOO.
- Ability to set/reset file-extension association via the Options
(besides via the installation procedure).
- Ability to have IsoBuster beep after extraction,
after a scan for lost files or after a surface scan (Set in Options)
- Ability to have IsoBuster sort files and folders immediately and
automatically after their parent folder is parsed. (Set in Options)
- Ability to have IsoBuster put folders on top immediately and
automatically after their parent folder is parsed. (Set in Options)
- Ability to enable/disable showing certain status icons
for files and folders (Set in Options)
- Ability to change files found based on their signature,
ability to change their address, length or even delete and add files.
(Set in Options)
- Ability to perform the Online check with Auto-detection of Proxy settings,
Manual Proxy settings or Proxy settings via a URL (Advanced Online Check Options)
- Ability to avoid a number of messages. A large number of them are new,
related to *.IBP, *.IBQ. Set or Reset displaying them in the Options.
- Support Multi volume Image-file-format *.000, *.001, *.002, *.003,
(made by Unix DD (or so they say))
- Support Multi volume Image-file-format *.AA, *.AB, *.AC, ... , *.BA, *.BB, ...
(made by Unix Split (or so they say))
- Support Multi volume Image-file-format *.nrg, *.nrg.001, *.nrg.002, *.nrg.003.
- Ability to skip files each time an error is encountered in them
(when extracting multiple files at once)
- Ability to pause extraction of an image file, and resume later or abort.
- Ability to pause finding lost files and folders, and resume later or abort.
- Prompt when no files or folders could be found to avoid confusion.
New users sometimes think that a track is a missing file that needs to be manipulated somehow.
Improvements :
- Added recognition for more DVD mastering software,
enabling direct IFO/VOB mounting.
- Reduce retry count when scanning for lost files and after continued errors.
- Compensation for abnormally long tracks
(when the drive is confused about the length)
- Speed (via memory management) improvement
for when many (millions) of small files are found based on their signature.
- Also list the LBA (Address) of files listed as unreadable after a scan.
- Various improvements in the file-signature recognition part,
more file types are supported, far less false positives.
- Reference to the *.cdt (cd-text) files from the *.cue file
with relative filename instead of absolute filename.
- Improved support for +VR recorders that do not write the _RM.BUP file
in the open track (or at least not point directly to it from the reserved track (virtual content))
- Compensation for various +VR mastering bugs by the Magnus DVD+VR writer.
- Put more relevant data in *.cue files (and read back)
- More escapes to stop try mounting a CD/DVD when the media is being written or formatted
- Removed displaying MSF addresses on DVD in the Extract From-To dialogue.
- Changed the default block size of unrecognised image files
to 2K per block instead of 2352 bytes block.
- Immediately display the red (x) icon next to files
that are located in unreadable areas,
if that can be determined immediately,
(e.g. when the file is located outside the track (e.g. after am incomplete write)).
In older versions first a surface scan or "find lost files ..." needed to be performed.
Files located on unread surface are still 'readable'
(no (x) mark) until proven differently (after failed read)
- Changed the order of Wnaspi32.dll loading so that a dll in the program folder itself
gets priority over a dll in the system folder.
So the Nero wnaspi32.dll for instance (if copied in the project folder)
is used instead of the (Adaptec) wnaspi32.dll in the System folder.
- Display the LoadSegment also in Hex, for a bootable CD's Boot Image file,
in the file properties.
- Implemented a work around for buggy mastering where the Joliet file-system
doesn't contain proper directory information beyond 8 levels deep.
- Various smaller changes and improvements
Bug Fixes :
- Fixed a division by zero error when a *.000 image file was loaded
(If the file was generic instead of part of VC4)
- Under certain conditions the MSF addresses could be wrong for tracks
on DVDs when they were recorded in the *.cue file.
- Catch an error message when trying to use system animations that aren't there anymore.
Vista early beta has replaced some of these animations. Until Vista public betas
become available no animations will be shown when they are not where they used to be.
(e.g. during file extraction)
- On certain NT systems (2K, XP) in combination with certain RAID controllers it was possibe that some
drives couldn't be found. Now they are found.
- Implemented fix that hopefully prevents the extraction window to disappear behind the main window
(work around for Windows and compiler behaviour)
IsoBuster 1.8
Changes
- Support for DVD+RW Dual Layer
- Automatic support for DVD+VR remapping.
Open DVD+VR discs now mount as normal discs and the video content can be extracted right away.
- The IFO/VOB file-system on Video and/or Audio DVDs is explored independently from ISO9660 and UDF
(to a certain extent, as ISO or UDF are still needed to find the entry points)
- The "Find lost UDF files and folders" test has been changed to "Find lost files and folders"
because now a lot more mechanisms are used to find lost data.
The different types can be enabled-disabled in the Options.
- Finding lost files includes finding lost ISO9660/Joliet sessions inside physical sessions
on DVD+RW, DVD-RW but also CD, e.g. in case the write software was unaware of the fact that
the previous session was not properly closed.
- Finding lost files includes a flat file list of all encountered files,
recognized by means of their signature.
- Finding lost files includes finding an IFO/VOB file-system on DVD if for instance ISO and UDF are corrupt
or absent so that video data cannot be found in a normal way.
This way the video data can be recuperated entirely.
- Support for multiple HFS(+) partitions on CD or DVD or in an image file (e.g. *.dmg image file).
- Complete and transparent support for Mac files inside UDF
- Support for Extended Attribute files, Mac properties and Mac resource files.
- Possibility to extract Mac Data forks and Resource forks as MacBinary files.
- Possibility, for developers, to view and extract the resource and extended attribute files independently
- Complete and transparent support for Mac files inside ISO9660 and JOLIET
- Improved support for Associated files, Mac properties and Mac resource files.
- Possibility to extract Mac Data forks and Resource forks as MacBinary files.
- Possibility, for developers, to view and extract the resource and associated files independently
- IsoBuster now shows and allows to extract the Nero project file included in a session on CD or DVD
(Option to disable this feature)
- Support for Multiple Nero sessions in one single physical session on DVD+RW or DVD-RW.
- Keep track of the last 10 opened image files. Allow to open them easily via File/Open Recent.
- Possibility to show two progress bars during extraction.
An object per object progress, and an entire operation progress. (Can be set in the Options)
Improvements :
- Improved support for Mac features inside HFS(+)
- Improved support for resource forks and Mac properties.
- Possibility, for developers, to view and extract the resource fork files independently
- More files are recognized based on their signatures.
- New Browse For Folders
- Various improvements for speed, for CD as well as DVD, during the "find missing files" scan
and particularly in case of bad, corrupt, sectors.
Dynamic adjustments of retry count, number of blocks count, skipping sectors, etc.
- Easier to abort a scan for missing data in case of bad, corrupt, sectors.
- Various improvements for DVD-R, e.g. reserved tracks in DVD-R.
- Various improvements for DVD+VR (DVD+R with +VR video content, made by DVD+VR consumer players)
- CD-Text data (if present) is now used as file-name for extracted Audio tracks.
- Disabled "PVD unreadable" message as it is still part of an old implementation from before UDF etc.
- Store more media specific information in the CUE sheet when an image is made.
- Overlapping UDF partitions, e.g. made by two drag and drop applications who were unaware of each other,
are better supported.
- Various improvements in the Find UDF files part, especially when the data is corrupt (or absent)
so that very critical information is missing.
Various improvements in IsoBuster's capability to cope with these major defects.
- Significant improvement for retrieving missing Sony Mavica data.
- Ability to display the time stamp of the root next to the file-system.
- Various GUI changes and improvements
Bug Fixes :
- Fixed NT4 communication issue that could occur and made all commands fail.
- MacBinary files created from HFS(+) files were not always entirely correct.
- Fixed a rare crash that can occur with very buggy ISO9660 implementations during the attempted scanning of the entire file-system content.
IsoBuster 1.7
Changes
- Support for the Mac file-systems : HFS and HFS+
- Ability to automatically assign extensions if recognized (Mac doesn't work with extensions normally)
- Ability to extract files to Binhex files (to maintain all Mac data in the file header; executed per file)
- Stuffit expander for Mac (for instance) is able to recognize such files.
- Binhex Extracted files get assigned the extension *.bin
- Mac but not Windows allowed file-names are converted during extraction.
- Support for Mac *.DMG image files for optical media, but even for HD, Zip, Click, Jazz, Memory stick or other storage devices, provided they contain HFS(+).
- New code in background to check for upgrades (faster and better).
- Support for language-selected Help files. If a different language file, with correct name, is present in the Help folder, it becomes active when that language is selected.
- Ability to specify the temp. folder that is used to temporary copy files to.
- Ability to wait a number of seconds before a read is retried to be able to automate reading bad discs
on certain older drives that need to cool down from time to time. (Set via options menu)
- Support for Dual Layer DVD-R
Improvements :
- Under WinNT / 2K / XP, using SPTI as communication interface, now both drive letters (instead of only one) for one physical super-DVD drive are found and listed in IsoBuster. (Some) Super-DVD drives (featuring all formats) claim two drive letters in the system, one for normal CD/DVD access and one for drag & drop access to DVD-RAM. If only the latter was found by IsoBuster, normal DVDs could not be read by IsoBuster (because of a blocking device driver somewhere down in the driver chain).
- Another workaround for the badly behaving ARTEC WRR-4848 drive (at least some firmware versions); IsoBuster would not see the content in case of formatted RW. media.
- Inserting ID and Serial (hopefully) made easier by adding more filters that strip away email added stuff etc.
- Long File-names for directories in the Rock Ridge file-system were not shown if
the tree was built up using the PathTable (which is the default setting).
The PathTable does not contain the long file-names.
Now the long file-names (if present in the directory tables) are used instead for display in the ListView and during Extraction.
- Empty DVD-R media was not always seen as such, if was recognized as CD,
on certain newer multi-format DVD Writers due to the combination of multiple standards and the different possible interpretations.
- Several smaller GUI and other improvements.
- Penetrating or setting the DLA lock, when DLA is active, is not done anymore to avoid side-effects of which long start-up times are the most annoying ones.
- The reason why this feature was built in the first place is disappearing as newer versions of DLA don't require it anymore.
- The ability to restore this setting still exists, contact Smart Projects to find out how
Bug Fixes :
- Under WinNT / 2K / XP, using SPTI as communication interface, it was possible that one or more drives were not found IF there was a device on the bus that claimed the last Adaptor number (256 or 0xFF). For some bizarre reason there is at least one type zip drive out there that has this behavior and which caused this problem to show.
IsoBuster 1.6 (Build 1.6.0.19)
Changes
- Added Belarusian translation to the "all languages" download.
Improvements :
- Automatic removal of "mailto:" when the email client adds "mailto:" to the registration ID when copying the ID from email client to IsoBuster registration window.
- A workaround for a buggy behaving drive "ARTEC WRR-4848" that doesn't like being asked if it can do Mount Rainier or not. The effect was a 20 seconds delay startup of the program.
- Found and fixed a rare situation where an externally connected USB drive was not found because the adaptor did not exist according to Windows XP.
- A workaround for a UDF mastering bug by VOB InstantWrite software (Old version of software in combination with big files)
- Various small changes to be able to properly recognize block-size and offsets in Mac image files containing HFS(+) as only file system.
- A workaround for a Windows XP (design) issue that prevented Windows itself from exploring a CD or DVD. This problem could occur when IsoBuster had been started when there was no media in the drive. The resulting blocking of XP lasted until IsoBuster was closed again.
Bug Fixes :
- A serious registration issue has been solved for people that bought a key after April 25th 2004. IsoBuster 1.6.0.18 could "forget" its registration and cause some frustration to registered users when they were told to register the program again. Registered users, please upgrade your installation! Simply download this latest version (http://www.smart-projects.net/download <isobusterdownload.htm>) and over-install it. Re-enter your key if asked.
- A fix for an error message under NT4 (Use of API not supported under NT4)
IsoBuster 1.6 (Build 1.6.0.18)
Changes
- Support for UDF 2.50, the newest version of the UDF standard.
- Support for DVD+R DL (Dual Layer DVD+R)
- Implementation of an embedded Method 3 (Mount Rainier) remapper for CD-RW.
- Implementation of an embedded Method 3 (Mount Rainier) remapper for DVD+RW.
- Automatic detection of Mount Rainier CDs and DVDs in none-capable Mount Rainier drives.
- Ability to force Mount Rainier remapping (Options menu)
- Online check to see if there is a more recent version available (Check per day, week, ... , never)
- Added support for Virtual CD image files (*.vc4 and *.000 images)
- Open via the *.vc4 (track/session descriptor file) to get the proper track/session layout.
- Open the *.000 (data container file) to treat as an ordinary image without track/session layout data.
- Added support for BlindWrite CD/DVD image files (*.b5t and *.b5i images)
- Open via the *.b5t (track/session descriptor file) to get the proper track/session layout.
- Open the *.b5i (data container file) to treat as an ordinary image without track/session layout data.
- Integration of MD5 Checksum files.
- Creation of MD5 checksum file (.md5) of the currently opened image
- Creation of MD5 checksum file (.md5) for potential (future) image files extracted a certain way
- Verify if currently opened image file's checksums match with checksums in checksum file (.md5)
- Opening IsoBuster with an .md5 file or dragging an .md5 file onto IsoBuster will trigger
IsoBuster to load the image file in the .md5 file and IsoBuster will do a verify automatically.
- Options to automatically create an MD5 checksum file after image file extraction.
- Fully supports image files which consist of multiple files, including cuesheet files etc.
- The progress bar now shows the progress of the entire operation instead of object per object.
For nostalgic reasons, should you like the older approach better,
an option to switch this back to object per object is available in the Options menu (GUI).
- The File and Directory Time Zone information, stored in the file-systems, is now taken in account
- to display the time in the ListView (right pane)
- and to assign a time stamp to an extracted file.
This way IsoBuster does the same as Windows NT, 2K, XP does as opposed to Windows 9x.
- For investigative or nostalgic reasons the local time stamps can still be seen and applied during extraction
via the Options Menu (Options / File Systems / General)
- The second tab of the properties window for a file or directory now shows the time zone of where the file was put on disc.
- When multiple files are extracted, and one or more files already exist, IsoBuster now offers,
besides the already existing option "Yes to All", a "No to All" option
on the question whether files need to be overwritten or not.
- In case of a corrupt UDF 1.5 file-system on CD-R with a missing VAT
IsoBuster's default setting is to start looking for that VAT.
This can take a while when there are a lot of errors on the disc.
An option has been added to stop the search if there are too many errors.
Default this option is set to 'On'.
- DLA has this habit of locking a device when it 'likes' the inserted CD or DVD, even though no writing or so is done to the media.
This prevents any commands being sent to the locked drive by applications which are started after the lock was applied.
As a result IsoBuster could not find the drive because even the simplest of commands were rejected.
As of this version the lock is penetrated via negotiation with DLA drivers.
Now, if IsoBuster has control, DLA will not write to the media until IsoBuster is closed again.
Improvements :
- Sometimes Windows passes a short file name (8.3) of an image file to the program, depending on how it is done.
This can cause IsoBuster to not be able to find the 'attached' files when the file is the first file of a multi-file image.
A workaround to deal with this problem has been implemented.
- Workaround for devices that return Full TOC data which is not MMC compliant.
- More file-types added to the automatic file-type recognition feature for orphaned files.
- Improved compression in the installer which cuts more than 1 MB of the 'all languages version'.
- Small speed improvement during the actual scanning for lost UDF files and folders.
Probably only noticeable on DVDs.
- Significant speed improvement during the last part of the scanning for lost files and folder,
the so called sanitizing part. Especially noticeable on large recovered data-sets on DVDs.
- Directory content displayed in the right ListView pane is build up dynamically now,
based on what the user sees. So in case of very large directories, e.g. 10,000 files or more,
building up the content is now very fast in comparison with older versions.
- Rewrite of part of the internal file-directory-data-management which probably won't be noticed
but helps for future functionality.
- Small GUI changes and improvements, e.g. build number mentioned in the About box.
- Help Button on the registration window.
- Prompt the user on Cue-sheet file creation when the file already exists and is going to be over-written.
- Ability to ignore certain errors 'always' in case of a corrupt ISO9660 or Joliet File-System.
Sometimes you could get certain errors for every directory or so,
now you can make a selection for all subsequent errors as well.
- Improvements in the UDF scan "Find lost UDF files and folders" in case the partition start address
cannot be determined via any surviving structures.
- On Extraction, when the file(s) already exist the user is asked to over-write or not.
When the user selected 'Yes' but the file was write-protected the file could still not be over-written
(The program would put up an error message).
Now, when the user says to over-write a file, even when the file is write-protected,
the file will be over-written as asked.
Bug Fixes :
- IsoBuster could run into a memory problem during the search for lost UDF files and in case of large data-sets,
e.g. DVDs with 200,000 lost files or more.
The problem could not be repeated on CDs because of the limited capacity.
- The progress bar during the finding of missing file extensions was not always working properly.
- The progress bar during the check to see if all files are physically readable was not always working properly.
- A memory management issue during the finding of missing file extensions could kill the speed on very large data-sets,
e.g. DVDs with +200,000 missing files.
- Following is far fetched but under WinNT,2K and XP, when the user would switch from Aspi to SPTI
or vice versa during the actual extraction of an object the program would crash.
Now switching can be done but the object extraction will continue via the previously selected interface.
- Recognition of certain single file *.gi image files was broken in version 1.5
- An exception error during interpreting of certain UDF file-system data could occur and has been fixed.
- In case of auto-remap-detection on older SCSI drives the program could crash
due to a 'Stack Overflow' problem.
- Fixed another problem that can occur with older SCSI drives.
This problem can occur when the CD has less than 2 tracks and
IF it occurs it occurs with unpredictable behavior.
- Rare exception error that could occur when an ISO9660 file system was corrupt and if the user chose to
keep parsing doubtful data after being prompted a few times.
- Rare exception error that could occur while scanning for lost UDF files and folders due
to unexpected corrupt data in certain UDF data structures.
- When an image file contained 2048 bytes/block the last block could not be read in raw mode.
Only raw was a problem, the user data could still be extracted normally.
- When an image file contained 2048 bytes/block and the user extracted raw,
the user data was always converted to M2F1 data in the raw image despite a possible M1 track mode.
This has been corrected. If the track mode is M1, the raw image will contain M1 as well.
IsoBuster 1.5
Changes
- A cosmetic makeover. XP style on XP systems.
- Option to change the icon-style in the left pane (TreeView), e.g. XP icons on non XP systems.
- The installation installs both a HTML Help file (*.chm) and an old style *.hlp file.
- This version launches the HTML Help by default if Internet Explorer 4.0 or higher is installed.
- The old style help is launched when Internet Explorer 4.0 is not yet installed
(e.g. Windows 95 clean)
- Support for two types of Multi-File Images (e.g. *.pdi images or *.iso or *.bin images and *.gi images)
(e.g.
ImageFile.pdi
ImageFile.pdi01
ImageFile.pdi02
ImageFile.pdi03
ImageFile.pdi04 )
(e.g.
ImageFile.gi
ImageFile(12).gi
ImageFile(13).gi
ImageFile(14).gi
ImageFile(15).gi )
- Splitting up image files during creation to user-specified size (e.g. DVD images into 4 files of 1 GB each)
- Support implemented for CD-Text in CueSheet files (*.cue).
- Support implemented for CD-Text in *.cdt files (linked via *.cue files).
- Support implemented for creation of CueSheet files (*.cue).
- Support implemented for creation of CD-Text files (*.cdt) linked via CueSheet files (*.cue).
- Ability to change in the options when and how a CueSheet file is created.
- Included Macedonian language support in the 'all languages' download
- Included Bosnian language support in the 'all languages' download
- Included Arabian language support in the 'all languages' download
- Included Farsi language support in the 'all languages' download
- Included Indonesian language support in the 'all languages' download
- Added support for Alcohol xx% images (*.mds and *.mdf images)
- Open via the *.mds (track/session descriptor file) to get the proper track/session layout. Including Multi-File support.
- Open the *.mdf (data container file) to treat as an ordinary image without track/session layout data.
- Added support for Clone CD images (*.ccd)
- Open via the *.ccd (track/session descriptor file) to get the proper track/session layout.
- Open the *.img (data container file) to treat as an ordinary image without track/session layout data. (Previously already supported)
- Label Mount-Rainier discs as "CD-MRW" instead of "CD-RW" and "DVD+MRW" instead of "DVD+RW". Drive needs to be MRW capable.
- Option to change (and store) the font of the complete application to aid in the support for special characters in combination with language dlls
- Implementation of automatically activated Method 2 remapper.
Improvements :
- Improvement which works around a buggy DataFab card reader driver under Win2K and WinXP.
The card reader driver bug could cause a system shut-down when IsoBuster was started up.
- Some drives respond with "No Media Present" on commands they do not support.
This caused IsoBuster to assume there was no media or that the media was blank.
A work-around has been implemented.
- Some drives (or most drives at some point) don't implement MMC correctly.
In case of a single track CD-RW IsoBuster could get confused about the track length on some CD-ROM drives.
- Improvements in the SPTI vs Aspi Communication layer selection.
Sometimes Aspi couldn't be selected on NT, 2K and XP systems if SPTI couldn't find drives at startup.
SPTI is now also selectable in case you have no administrator rights on NT, 2K and XP.
In case you have no administrator rights, the help file explains what your administrator must select to grant you low level drive access.
- In case of (S)VCD, and in case files are located on M2F2 sectors (e.g. mpg files), "Extract" will work just as it did in versions 1.3 and lower.
As of version 1.4 normal "Extract" returned errors because IsoBuster wanted to read strictly 2048 bytes user data per block.
This was done to avoid problems with marginal drives that return bogus data in case of raw reading.
The improvement is still a lot stricter than versions 1.3 and lower. IsoBuster will now extract raw and convert to user data
automatically on "Extract" BUT only on real (S)VCD files, e.g. AVSEQ01.DAT or MUSIC01.DAT in the MPEGAV directory.
So if a CD looks like a VCD (because of certain parameters) "Extract" will still be strict unless the file is a real
(S)VCD file in which case the data is extracted raw and converted to user data in the background.
- Indirect ways to find the correct mode (M1 or M2F1) in 2K/block image files implemented (cosmetic use more than anything else)
- Work around that deals with older Plextor (and OEM) SCSI drives that don't implement Read TOC (full TOC) correctly. (this could mess up the track layout)
- Removed looking for UDF on CD-i discs to speed up the mounting process (there's no UDF on these discs anyway)
- Removed looking for UDF on true Whitebook VCD discs to speed up the mounting process (there's no UDF on these discs anyway)
- Small changes in the ISO9660 interpreter to work around ISO9660 mastering bugs (by some apps)
- Speed improvements in the "find lost UDF files and folders" scan in case of read errors.
- Improved support for IDE interfaces with more than one bus. Sometimes, using SPTI, some devices were not found if not on the first bus.
- Improvement to find if data is compressed or not on trashed Roxio created CD-RWs.
- Improvement to still find the Sparable Allocation table on CD-RW if all references to that data are gone.
- Several more little an subtile changes in the options, GUI, etc.
Bug Fixes :
- Time stamp on files sometimes wrong
- The track size on DVD-R media (if only one track in one session containing less than 127,5 MB) could sometimes be wrong
(depending on the device it was tested with)
- Versions that come with HTML Help sometimes close with an exception error. This is now fixed.
- Versions that come with HTML Help sometimes start with an exception error on a win95 or NT4 system with IE < 4.0. This is now fixed.
- A very rare occurrence (only seen once but repeatable on that CD) of an exception error due to a corrupted UDF structure with unexpected value.
- Flying folders (copy animation) was not always animated anymore (compiler issue)
- Sometimes, during image file creation, when there were errors on the CD,
and the image was spanning multiple tracks, and the option 'Always apply Selection' was checked,
the selected way to process the error was not properly being applied in the following track (IF that track had errors).
IsoBuster 1.4
New
- Sector Viewer
- Ability to look at every individual sector and see the content (normal or raw)
- Ability to save as *.rtf or *.txt file
- Ability to print every sector content
- Support for Pinnacle Image files (*.PDI)
- Map Erroneous sectors during scanning for lost UDF files and folders.
- Indicate if files contain errors or not after scanning.
- By means of a list
- By means of an extra icon next to every file
- Extra options to request that list
- Auto-scan function to find extensions for orphaned (nameless) files after UDF scan
- CD/DVD Surface scan routine to find physical errors.
- Check if all files are physically readable without having to extract them somewhere.
- The CD/DVD icon now also nicely mentions if the media is : DVD-R, DVD-RW, DVD+R, DVD+RW or DVD-RAM
- CD/DVD Properties Window shows amount of layers.
Improvements
- UDF file improvement for Pioneer CE player created VR discs.
- Take in account badly mastered UDF with dead loop directory references (e.g. DirA contains DirB contains DirA again)
- Improve robustness and implement workarounds for corrupt UDF systems containing bogus data in certain critical fields.
- More logging features default enabled to do analysis.
- Small changes for future devices (cfr. more recent MMC specifications)
- Small GUI improvements.
- Sanitizing data after scanning for lost UDF files or folders speeded up in case the directory data contains many errors.
- Improvement to not conflict with certain card reader drivers under Windows 2K and XP
Bugfixes
- Switching between SPTI and ASPI could cause problems under WinXP and Win2K.
IsoBuster 1.3
New
- Full *.PXI (Plextools) image file support (multiple tracks, multiple sessions, CD-Text, ...)
- Roxio Compressed UDF format supported.
- Drag and Drop (drag image files to the TreeView (left pane), drag files from the ListView (right pane) ...)
Improvements
- Tray Open/Close detection (for newer MMC3 compliant devices)
- Start up Maximized displays the form properly all the times.
BugFixes
- Extraction of Audio tracks from certain image file formats was not always done correctly.
IsoBuster 1.2
New
- Full Surface scanning function to find missing and/or deleted files
on UDF written CD-R, CD-RW, DVD+R, DVD+RW, DVD-R and DVD-RW.
- Activated per session.
- Find all previous states (older file versions) of the File System on sequentially written media (CD-R, DVD+R, DVD-R)
- Support for *.pxi image files (still limited support but will improve).
- Set your own retry-count during CD access (in case of many (long lasting) read errors)
Improvements
- Improvement for DVD-R open session (length detection)
- Improvement for new variant of *.cdi image files (possibly generated by a new CD-Rom filter driver ?)
BugFixes
- Small bugfixes (e.g. GUI but not that anybody ever noticed)
IsoBuster 1.1
New
- Help file integrated in installation
- F1 for help
The all languages installation features 31 languages,
some of which are updated (e.g. Russian)
New languages : Galician, Turkish, Farsi
Improvements
- Improvement for DVD+R open session (length detection)
- Improvement for CDRW formatted track (length detection)
- Improvement for reserved tracks (No File System scanning)
- UDF (By Direct CD) is now also found in open DVD+R, DVD-R sessions
- Compensation for UDF conflict against the specifications (Bug by InCD)
- Compensation for UDF conflict against the specifications (Bug by Padus, files > 1 GB)
- Registration dialog accepts slightly wrong IDs and Serials to make it easier.
- Added raw data extraction from image files that contain less data (IsoBuster adds EDC/ECC)
- Improvement for extraction of M2F2 mpg video from none raw image files.
- Small changes in the UDF engine, getting ready to implement some cool scanning routines.
Bugfixes
- Improvement for *.cif end of file detection.
- Some complex UDF layouts were not always displayed in the right pane (TreeView object)
- Rock Ridge file names were sometimes ISO9660 File names (so, no long file names)
- CD-i directories not always detected as directories but seen as files.
- Rare crash during mounting UDF file-system (I don't think anybody ever ran into this one ?)
IsoBuster 1.0
- Improved handling of DVDs in DVD-Writers (DVD-R/W and DVD+R/W)
- Improved handling of Multi-border DVD-R/W
- Improved handling of Multi-Session DVD+R
- Ability to Register, Buy Online, Remind me later ... (Registration Dialog added)
- Ability to Extract UDF files and folders (Once the version is registered)
- *.GI (Prassi PrimoDVD) Image file support
- Bug-fix : Date and time was not always correctly displayed
- Bug-fix : for some images (Apple icon indicated Mac content) not all files were shown (only occurred in very specific and rare occasions)
IsoBuster 0.99.9
- CD-Text
- UDF 2.01 (so also UDF 1.02 (e.g. DVDs, Mount Rainier, ...) and UDF 1.5 (e.g. packet writing on CD-R and CD-RW))
- Optimage (Philips, CD-i) image file support.
- Drive properties
- Improved detection of scrambled data image files.
- Worked around a Win95 issue that caused IsoBuster to not start up on Win95 systems with IE < 4.0
- All sorts of small suggestions implemented (= General improvements)
- Ukrainian language support.
IsoBuster 0.99.8
- Rewrite to Full Unicode support (internally) (Getting ready for the future)
- Code Page selection for MBCS and SBCS conversions
- Charset feature support (transparent to the user) which deals with font settings to be able to support Oriental languages properly
- *.cif and *.cue image file support.
- Improvements to be better support certain border case image file formats.
- Improvement to better support audio extraction on old SCSI drives.
- Improvement to better deal with older (incorrectly TOC reporting) DVD-ROM drives.
- Added language support for : Japanese, South-African (Afrikaans), Norwegian.
- Most of the existing language- have been polished and updated !
IsoBuster 0.99.7.5
- Improved File handling to be able to deal with +2GB files (think DVD). This also means better handling of +2GB image files.
- Improved handling of +2GB DVDs. This change is very much tied in to the first improvement but not exactly the same. Before, the capacity (track-size, session-size, ...) could be reported incorrectly.
- Fix for 05/64/00 'Illegal mode for this track' error with some 2K/block image files.
- Minor tweaking, e.g. IsoBuster will now allow a file with illegal name (according to the OS) to be extracted.
- The installation now installs a few more languages :
Dutch, Italian, French, Spanish, Portuguese, Brazilian Portuguese, Chinese (Simplified), Chinese (Traditional), Czech, Danish, German, Icelandic, Greek, Serbian, Finnish, Polish, Romanian, Swedish, Russian, Azerbaijan Turkish, Hebrew, Bulgarian, Hungarian & Slovakian.
IsoBuster 0.99.7.4
- The change vs. 0.99.7.3 is small but a very interesting one !
I found that some CDs (and thus also image files) have wrongly mastered Iso/Joliet File-Systems.
Not that this is the first time I see ugly situations in File-Systems, but this is one that will (and does) cause applications and File-System drivers to make grave mistakes with missing files and directories as a result.
The problem does not occur on my Windows 98 system and I guess that's the reason why this nasty file-system generator could be released in the first place. I strongly suspect one certain company but I have no immediate prove so I will not mention the company (which Btw. I have seen make mistakes in this area before).
To test my suspicion that this error must cause missing data on some systems or with certain applications I tested with several Windows apps which in some areas overlap IsoBuster functionality ! The ones I tested ALL failed !! I did not necessarily test the latest versions but I suspect (at least some of them) will still have this problem.
IsoBuster 0.99.7.4 deals with this problem.
- The installation now installs a few more languages :
Dutch, Italian, French, Spanish, Portuguese, Brazilian Portuguese, Chinese (Simplified), Chinese (Traditional), Czech, Danish, German, Icelandic, Greek, Serbian, Finnish, Polish, Romanian, Swedish & Russian.
IsoBuster 0.99.7.3
- The change is minimal. Some small changes to better meet certain localization !
- The installation now installs :
Dutch, Italian, French, Spanish, Portuguese, Brazilian Portuguese, Chinese (Simplified), Chinese (Traditional), Czech, Danish, German, Icelandic, Greek, Serbian & Finnish.
IsoBuster 0.99.7.2
- Full Multi-Language support (already included : Dutch, Italian, French, Spanish, Portuguese, Brazilian Portuguese, Chinese (Simplified), Chinese (Traditional), Czech, Danish & German).
- All wrapped in a nice installation (installing the languages, providing file extension registration, icons etc. ...)
- Improvements : Time-stamps for folders, remembering the last 'saved to' folder.
- Bug Fixes : Opening large folders (e.g. i386 folder on XP CD (5300+ objects)) sometimes could result in unstable behavior.
IsoBuster 0.99.7.1
- This version is based on a totally new engine.
Yes ... I re-wrote the code once again ... but this time I'm happy !!!! ;-))
It took me half a year but I think I have some nice Object Oriented code now.
Version 0.99.7.1 looks (VERY) similar to version 0.99.6
Although not easy to spot there are some major changes and improvements in this version already.
(Engine stuff which isn't spotted that easily, e.g. also in command sequences to drives etc.)
I try to list the changes :
- Even better supports for some CDs that were previously unreadable
(e.g. some incomplete sessions / tracks which could not be seen with previous version) !
- Far better support for DVD !!
- Multi-Track extraction
- (Hopefully) made it more clear what the differences are between User Data / Raw data (e.g. added Raw to User)
- Different extraction techniques.
- Made distinction between normal extraction (CD/DVD, sessions and tracks) and to Image Extraction.
- Open Image files starting from *.* instead of having to pick the image file type all the time.
- Support for Creator 5 image files.
- Ability to open an unlimited amount of Image files at the same time !
- Several more (smaller) changes ... I forget what they are !
IsoBuster 0.99.6
- System Icons
- Correct time indication (Previously all 'Modified' times were AM)
- Correct time of extracted files.
- From-To Extraction (choose the start and end position yourself, great for 'engineering jobs')
- Rock Ridge Support (Rock Ridge is an extension to ISO and was used a lot on Sun, Amiga and other computers)
- Track/Image Extraction enhancements (choose how to replace an erroneous block etc. ... )
- Several Modifications and Implementations to get ready for future functionality (EDC/ECC generation, better object oriented code (more improvements still to come in later version).
- Work around a few more Iso-mastering bugs of some write applications. (Damn these guys make mistakes ... especially in the part that IsoBuster uses but Microsoft doesn't (Big Endian)).
IsoBuster 0.99.5
- Port to BCB 5
- Re-Write of code (as a result different processes can run simultaneously, although internally properly queued as IsoBuster is not multi-threaded.).
- Complete Track and Session awareness. You are now able to explore file systems in the several sessions and have access to files and folders you long thought were lost.
- The internal File-Image handling has changed such that many variants of image files are still recognized. Added *.p01 image-file support (Gear), Added *.c2d support (WinOnCD).
- Full Win2K support.
- Under WinNT (4 or 2K), two ways of communication are now possible through the NT native SPTI layer or through Aspi.
- Track and Image extracting
- Extra support for CDTV CD owners
- A Mac icon is showed when a Mac ISO file-system is found
- Play Audio of Audio tracks.
- Work around NT 4 buggy atapi.sys driver problem (before Service Pack 4 or 5).
- Work around NT 4 bug in SCSI pass through mechanism (only when DMA on for IDE devices)
- Made sure IsoBuster works well with the Nero wnaspi32.dll for NT.
- Made some display improvements to better support the Windows 'Large fonts' setting.
- Added sort functionality. Sorting the LBA, Size or Name button.
- Added a feature to extract the directory list to a file which also mentions the block addresses.
- Audio tracks can be extracted to wave files
- 'Ignore All following errors' and 'Overwrite all files' when lots of errors are encountered during extraction.
- IsoBuster accepts command line parameters. Start IsoBuster with an Image file directly loaded.
- Properties for Files; Directories, Tracks, Sessions, ...
- More Bootable CD-ROM support. The 'El Torito' information is made available and the image can be extracted. Turn to other tools to edit ....
- A 'Run' option next to the extraction options
IsoBuster 0.99.4
- Support for the latest Clone CD (*.img) image files (which was changed a little bit).
- Added Nero (*.nrg) image support. (Only little testing done, input is welcome)
- Added Prassi (*.gcd) image support (Only single track images)
IsoBuster 0.99.3
- Support for Long File names (interpretation of Joliet file system)
- Automatic de-scrambling of raw data delivered by some old CD-ROM drives
- Support and minding for extended attribute lists (not seen yet)
- Support for ISO converted UDF CD-R discs
- Recognition of C32 CDs that are slightly out of spec.
- Bug Fixes:
- On older SCSI readers when an error persistently occurred on a sector address above 65.000, IsoBuster sometimes returned incorrect data.
IsoBuster 0.99.2
... Change note Lost in space ... Not Even IsoBuster can retrieve the data now ... ;-)
IsoBuster 0.99.1
- IsoBuster now supports A LOT more SCSI drives !
- Modified field now shows data correctly (all the time)
- Few Memory allocation improvements. App now uses even less memory.
- Less critical in case of ISO format which is 'out of spec'.
- Some cosmetic improvements
- Support for two more Image files: *.IMG (Clone CD) & *.CIF (Creator, single track images)
IsoBuster 0.99 << First Release >>
IsoBuster is a CD/DVD utility which lets you explore a CD File System while by-passing Windows. Here are the main features:
Better Error handling and several retry-mechanisms to aid in getting the data anyway (or at least partially).
More CDs stay 'readable' after problems (such as Buffer Underrun)
Read and extraction from CD-i, VCD, SVCD, CD-ROM, CD-ROM XA, DVD, DVCD,...
MPG (*.dat) Extraction and dat2mpg 'in one'.
And it supports the *.DAO, *.TAO (Duplicator), *.ISO (Nero, BlindRead, Creator) & *.BIN (CDRWin) CD Image types
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