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SPECTRUM BETADISK/TR-DOS DISK UTILITIES

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The Russian Spectrum models use the TR-DOS disk operating system. As more and more emulators support this, it is time to convert your disks to emulator files.
Lots of utilities to work with Betadisk/TR-DOS images are available on the net, and this is just a small selection of them.
Erik Kunze wrote some of these (EMPTYTRD, HOB2TRD and TRD2HOB) for the Unix environment and they are included in the XZX distribution.
[ PC | Amiga | Multi ]

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PC

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• Russian Font Driver
  Load this driver to be able to display the Russian characters in these utilities. [01/04/99]
  
  
• ANADISK and Teledisk v2.23
  Handle real TR-DOS floppy disks on a PC, just as an MS-DOS floppy! It can also copy files across.
  
  
• Plug-ins for FAR manager v1.5x and up, all by HalfElf:
  xTRD v0.9b allows you to open .TRD, .FDI and .TD0 images. [27/03/00]
  xSCL v0.1b allows you to open .SCL images. [27/03/00]
  xZXZIP v0.11b allows you to open Spectrum ZXZIP images. [27/03/00]
  xCreate v0.2b allows you to create .TRD, .FDI and .SCL images. [27/03/00]
  TDO decoder fix, which fixes some bugs and accelerates work woth packed TD0 images. [22/06/00]
  XiSD, adds support for the IS-DOS disk format, as well as the .FDI and .IMG formats. [18/07/00]
  
  
• HOBETA v2.15 by SP-Cube Co.
  Handle real Betadisk floppy disks on a PC, with a Norton Commander-like shell.
  
  
• EMPTYTRD by Igor Eged
  Creates an empty .TRD disk image file.
  
  
• DISK2TRD by Igor Eged
  Dump a real TR-DOS floppy disk to a .TRD image file.
  
  
• TRD2DISK by Igor Eged
  Dump a .TRD image back onto real TR-DOS floppy disk.
  
  
• WRITETRD by Igor Eged
  Copy .TAP or raw binary files to a .TRD disk image file.
  
  
• ZCOP
  Copy Hobeta files to and from .TRD disk images files.
  
  
• HOB2TRD by Igor Eged
  Copy Hobeta files to a .TRD image file.
  
  
• TRD2TAP by Igor Eged
  Copy files from a .TRD image file to a .TAP file
  
  
• TDCVT v0.10 by Sergey Erokhin
  Converts .TD0 (teledisk) to .TRD/.FDI formats. [01/08/99]
  
  
• AMD Copier v0.1 by Paul Pavlov
  Converts physical disks to .TRD/.SCL formats. [01/04/99]
  
  
• ZX Spectrum Navigator v1.13 by RomanRoms Software Co.
  Superb GUI to deal with the filetypes .TRD, .FDI, .FDD, .SCL, .TAP and .SCR files [22/06/00]
  
  
• Floppy Disk Analyser v6.1 by MTC Medincom
  Excellent tool to deal with physical disks (fully cracked). [25/09/99]
  
  
• SpecDOS v0.01 by Evgeny Barsky
  A TR-DOS disk formatter. [31/12/99]
  
  
• SCL2TRD by Evgeny Barsky
  Converts .SCL and .$b (hobeta) images to cut-off .TRD images and creates a boot loader. [27/03/00]
  
  
• TRDCUT 1.1 by Jaime Tejedor Gómez
  Trim trailing zeroes from TRD images to (often drastically) reduce the image size. [10/08/01]
  
  
• Real Commander v2.0 by Real Software
  A TR-DOS file manager [08/09/01]
  
  
• WinTRD v1.0 by Alexandr Medvedev
  A TR-DOS disk managing utility for Windows NT/2000/XP/2003 [21/11/05]

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Amiga

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• ZX DOS
  A set of utilities to work with TRD images, copy to real disks, etc. [25/09/99]

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Multi

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• The emulator Fuse, for Unix and Mac OS X, has "scl2trd" in the 'additional utilities' package.
  
  
• BetaDisk Dump Extractor v1.7e from Hansoft.
  Available are versions for MS DOS, Windows and Linux. [30/06/02]
  
  
• HOB2SCL v1.0.0 by Matthew Westcott.
  A perl script that converts Hobeta files to SCL format. [18/01/04]
  
  
• TRD2SCL v1.0.0 by Matthew Westcott.
  A perl script that converts Hobeta files to SCL format. [19/01/04]
  
  
• TXDOS v1.0 by Flavio M. Matsumoto.
  A Ruby script to perform operations (cat, format, save, load, erase, copy, new) on Beta/TRDOS disk images (.TRD files) and Hobeta files. [04/07/12]