GoMMCExplorerIntroductionGoMMCExplorer is a PC-based utility for 'exploring' your GoMMC card.It allows you to add, remove or rename discimages, tools or filingsystems to your GoMMC via a GUI. The utility works with MMC-cards used by the GoMMC made by John Kortink. InstallationDownload setup.exe (see the main page) and run it. You can select the directory where GoMMCExplorer should be installed.You don't have to uninstall previous versions. StartingAfter starting up, you see the splash-screen (see right). It shows the name of the application and the version. You can also view this splash-screen by selecting Help|About.GoMMCExplorer will try to detect your MMC-drive, detect the size of the inserted MMC-card, check if it is formatted with the GoMMC filing system and read the GoMMC-directory. If you have more than 1 MMC-card inserted, then it will default to the first valid card. Change the default drive in the Settings. |
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This panel contains a graphical representation of the used space on the MMC-card. If you hover over the bar, it will show you the percentage of used space.
The used space is the total space used by the GoMMC filing system. It is possible to have free space but adding objects is not possible because the free space is fragmented. Click on this bar to see the zoomed-in free space distribution. Rightside is the start of the first object occupying space on the MMC, leftside is the last occupied byte on the MMC. So the catalogue, and the gap between the end of the catalogue and the first object, are not shown. At the bottom of the zoomed-in bar you can see a little red or green bar. That bar shows which part of the MMC is currently in the cache of GoMMCExplorer. Red indicates some bytes-to-be-written are in the cache, green indicates there's only read-only cached data. On the right you see the cache-light. When it's red, GoMMCExplorer has some unwritten data in it's cache. Don't remove the MMC-card! Press the cache-light to flush the cache. When the light is green there's no unwritten data in the cache. You can safely remove the MMC-card. |
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MMC Drive This is the MMC-drive in which your GoMMC-card lives. The dropdown-box lists all drives which Windows sees as 'Removable' (except drive A:). GoMMC Safety zone Some MMC-cards do not function correctly when reading the last few sectors, so the GoMMC doesn't use the last 8Kb (=$2000 bytes). This option can not be modified (although it can be in the registry), but this is NOT recommended. The physical GoMMC expects a safetyzone of 8K. Any other setting will not work correctly. GoMMCExplorer Cachesize GoMMCExplorer caches data it reads/writes from/to the MMC-card. Bigger values decrease the number of MMC-reads/writes needed, but increase the time these writes take. This value should be bigger than the size of discimages you normally work with, so 256K should be fine if you work a lot with non-squashed .SSD-images. Reuse deleted space when adding objects With this option checked, GoMMCExplorer will reuse empty space (the blocks mentioned in the free space map). Leave this option checked for optimal MMC-use. Use deleted objects when deleting objects If you delete an object with this option checked, the object will not really be deleted, although the physical GoMMC won't see it anymore. It's like the Windows Recycle bin. Normally there's no need to enable this option. Rewrite objectheader when deleting objects There are two copies of the catalogue-entry for an object: One in the catalogue, and a copy just in front of the object. This copy can (in theory) be used to restore the object if the catalogue is corrupted. If this option is checked, the copy will also be updated and marked as 'deleted'. The drawback is that there is no way to tell which type (tool, fs, discimage) this object was. Because 'undeleting' is not implemented yet, the last two options are of no practical use (yet). |
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Maximum node-breaks In the tree, the discobjects can have subnodes. Every time a dot ('.') in the name of an object is found, a subnode is created, up to the maximum number of subnodes defined here. This way you can group your objects together. Suppose an object is named 'Acornsoft.Elite.game'. If you set the node-breaks to 0 (zero), the Discimages has no subnodes, but only one child named 'Acornsoft.Elite.game' (the image itself). If you set the node-breaks to 1, the Discimages has one subnode 'Acornsoft'. That node has no subnodes, but only one child named 'Elite.game' (the image itself). If you set the node-breaks to 2, the Discimages has one subnode 'Acornsoft'. That node has one subnode 'Elite' which has one child named 'Elite.game' (the image itself). Because GoMMCExplorer does not store any 'own' information on the MMC-card but only relies on 'native' GoMMC-information, it's not possible to define own groups. If you want to define a group 'StairwayToHell' you have to name the object 'StairwayToHell.Acornsoft.Elite.game' and set the node-breaks to (at least) 1. See the image on the right for a node-breaks setting of respectively 0, 1 and 2. Auto-view object details when selecting an object When this option is checked and you select an object in the tree, it's detailed info is automatically displayed in the right pane (area 5 in the picture above). It takes some time to read the info off the GoMMC, especially when you have a big cache-size and you're only interested in the global details (area 4). When you uncheck this option, the text 'Click to load details from GoMMC' will be displayed in the right pane. When you click the pane, the detailed info will be shown. Show GoMMC size/address in hex When checked, almost all numbers will be shown in hex. When not checked, those numbers will be shown in decimal. This option does not influence the way numbers in DFS-catalogues are shown. Those numbers will always be displayed in hex. For every object a hexview will be shown (in the right pane, area 5). Here you can configure the way the hexview will be shown. Bytes per row This option selects how many bytes the hexview should display on a row. Total bytes With this option you can select how many bytes will be read from the object you selected. |
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Path to emulator Here you enter the complete path including the filename of your favorite Beeb-emulator (or select it with the '...'-button). When you've entered something here, a rightclick on an discimage in the tree will show the extra menu-item 'Open in Emulator'. When you select that menu-item, a temporary file 'GoMMCEmulatorImage.ssd' will be created in the user-temp-directory, and the emulator will be opened. Commandline options Enter the options which should be appended to the above mentioned path/filename. The sequence $img$ will be replaced with the full path of the temporary file ('GoMMCEmulatorImage.ssd' in the user-temp-directory). |
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Try to guess distributor from filepath When you import a discimage, GoMMCExplorer uses the title of the disc (the DFS-title) as the name of the object. If no name is found, it used the filename. If you check this option, GoMMCExplorer will also try to guess the distributor from the imported filepath and add it to the name. For example, if you try to add 'F:\Acorn\disks\Acornsoft\Elite\Elite.ssd', it will extract the name 'Acornsoft' from that path. So the name of the object will be 'Acornsoft.Elite' (presuming the DFS-title is Elite). Overwrite existing objects With this option checked, objects with the same name will be overwritten. When this option is not checked, you can have two objects with the same name. The physical GoMMC will only be able to access the first object with that name, the second cannot be selected. So it's wise to leave this option checked. Ask before overwriting When this option is checked, GoMMCExplorer will ask you to confirm the overwriting of an existing object. This option is of course only enabled when the previous option is enabled. Format GoMMC before restore When you restore a complete GoMMC, you probably want to start with a clean GoMMC. When this option is enabled, GoMMCExplorer will (after a confirmation) format the GoMMC first. If this option is not checked, the imported objects will be merged with the existing objects. Depending on the setting of the 'Overwrite'-options, it's possible to have multiple objects with the same name after a restore! |
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Check for updates at startup I think you know it. When checked, GoMMCExplorer will check for updates. If there are no new updates, the update-window will close after a few seconds. If there are any updates, click the URL at the bottom of that window to go to the website. |
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