DIMG Release 1.1 Release Notes               10 April 2010
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  DIMG is a simple disk imaging utility for Windows and UNIX. Features include:
    * Read image from disk
    * Write image to disk
    * Browse FAT12 filesystem and extract files
  DIMG uses Qt4 to provide its user interface.

  This release represents the state of v1.1 development at the time of tagging
  (10 April 2010). There may be future bug fix releases before the next planned
  feature release (v1.2).

  This software, despite its version number, should be considered BETA quality.
  Due to the limited number of users it receives little to no beta testing
  before a release is tagged.

  DIMG v1.1 is packaged as the following components:
    DIMG v1.1: The base program. On its own it can not do much.

    DQWindrv v1.0: A very basic Drive Access plugin for windows systems. It
    talks to windows directly to access the floppy drive and provides good
    performance. Its format support is fairly limited.

    DQDLibDsk v1.0: A Drive Access plugin that uses LibDsk to talk to floppy
    drives on UNIX. It is much more advanced than DQWindrv and will handle a
    much wider variety of disk formats but provides very bad performance to
    the point of being nearly unusable. As such, DQWindrv is provided and is
    used as the default on that platform with DQDLibDsk being the default
    everywhere else.

    fat12fs v1.0.1: A prototype read-only FAT12 filesystem implementation. It
    should not be considered stable (DMF formatted disks for example will kill
    it). It will be entirely rewritten in a future version. This is necessary
    for filesystem functions.
    
    FPraw v1.0.0: Support for loading and saving raw floppy disk images.

    FPzip v1.0.0: Support for loading and saving compressed .IMZ disk images.

  Contents:
    /dimg        -- DIMG program
    /DQDLibDsk   -- DQDLibDsk Drive Access Plugin (UNIX)
    /DQWindrv    -- DQWindrv Drive Access Plugin (Windows)
    /fat12fs     -- FAT12 filesystem implementation
    /QFATreader  -- Filesystem Plugin container
    /FilePlugins -- Plugins for supporting various image file formats
    /lib         -- Some important libraries required to build DIMG.

  Available Documentation:
    A000-UM02  -- DIMG User Manual, Version 1.1

  Requirements:
    Trolltech Qt version 4.6 or higher. On UNIX, LibDsk is required. Version 
    1.2 or higher should work.

  Supported Platforms:
    This program has been tested and is known to work on Windows XP, Windows 7
    and and Kubuntu 8.04. It should in theory run where ever LibDsk and Qt 4.6
    do. Windows is the primary development platform and so the program will
    likely encounter the least issues there.

  License:
    See the COPYING file which you should have received with this distribution.
    This software is licensed under the GNU General Public License Agreement,
    Version 2 or (at your option) any later version.

  Known Issues:
    - DMF formatted disks will crash the program if the fat12fs plugin is
      present.
    - Geometry handling on Windows using DQWindrv is very basic. Only 1.44MB 
      disks have been tested and it is unknown if any other format will work.
    - The FAT12 Filesystem implementation is a little (very) flakey. If it is
      confronted with anything unusual (such as a corrupt image) it will likely
      crash the program. If DIMG is acting unstable try disabling the FAT12
      filesystem plugin.
    - Retry for read/write operations does not work. If there is a read or a
      write error you will have to abort and start again.
    - On linux the file save dialog may not automatically append an extension
      preventing the file from saving. If this happens just manually add '.imz'
      (for compressed) or '.ima' (for raw) to the end of the filename when
      saving.

  New in v1.1:
    - Support for compressed (.IMZ) image files including comments.
    - Option to chage UI style
    - Various small bug fixes (see CHANGES file for the full Change Log)

  Changelog:
    See the CHANGES file which you should have received with this distribution.
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                                                                   David Goodwin