On this page, you can find the current beta release of The Star Commander and the Star Utilities.
Unregistered betas expire in one year. As the author does not wish to get reports about old betas, they refuse to work one year after their release. If a valid personal keyfile is present, you "only" get an annoying message every time you launch the software. So, please, always download the latest beta. If you find a newer beta to be worse, in some respect, than an older beta or the previous public release, contact the author.
Read the documentation before complaining!
Before contacting the author about problems with accessing Commodore drives
and/or transferring files, please, read the "Usage", "Troubleshooting" and
"Known problems and limitations" sections in the documentation. If you still
have problems then read the "Reporting problems" section in the
documentation on how problems should be reported.
Unfortunately, the author doesn't have much time for this project anymore,
and especially few time to answer questions. Therefore, reports about any
release other than the latest public or beta release, reports covered by the
documentation and improper reports may be rejected! YOU HAVE BEEN
WARNED!
New name for personal keyfiles. Since Version 0.81, the name of the personal keyfile has been changed from sc.reg to sc.key so that its extension doesn't conflict with that of Windows registry files. Please, rename your personal keyfile, to make it work again! (Note that this already applies to Version 0.82.)
Read docs for dosemu and Windows XP. If you're running dosemu under GNU/Linux or using Windows XP then see the "Usage" section of the documentation for important information on how to make the Commander access Commodore drives in these environments. Windows XP users should also download the updated Windows NT/2000/XP tweak package and read the included documentation.
By downloading betas, you declare that you have read and understood the important notes.
Please, use the latest public release to overcome the following problems until the next beta release, in which these will be fixed, becomes available.
None.
The Star Commander, Version 0.83.22 beta (2007-10-14) [sc08322b.zip, 551.469 bytes]
Source of The Star Commander, Version 0.83.22 beta (2007-10-14) [sc08322s.zip, 584.254 bytes]
IMPORTANT! This source package does not contain the modified source of Turbo Vision 2.0, Borland Pascal's user interface, only the already compiled units. If you have the original Turbo Vision source, you can patch it with the Windows version of xdelta to get the modified source. See README.TXT in the source package for more details.
You can edit the Commodore-style VGA fonts with FONTMAN.
Star Utilities, Version 0.83.16 beta (2004-10-17) [su08316b.zip, 140.043 bytes]
Source of the Star Utilities, Version 0.83.16 beta (2004-10-17) [su08316s.zip, 70.209 bytes]
Windows NT/2000/XP tweak package, allows you to access Commodore drives under Windows NT4/2000/XP/2003 (2004-09-01) [sc_winnt.zip, 97.994 bytes]
WARNING: You should rather make the Commander use the OpenCBM driver from opencbm/cbm4win (0.4.0 or above) to access Commodore drives under Windows NT4/2000/XP/2003; that works much better than using this package! Read the documentation for more information.
Disk error test suite, for testing the disk error reproduction capability of Commodore-PC transfer and conversion software (2002-05-19) [dskerror.zip, 472.321 bytes]
Color and PETSCII art test suite, for testing the display of C64 colors and "PETSCII art" (2003-09-18) [coltest.zip, 84.260 bytes]
Original, English documentation
Changes in SC 0.83.22 beta since SC 0.82:
None.
Changes in SC 0.83.22 beta since previous SC 0.83 betas:
None.
Further major new features, planned for Version 0.83, are the following:
Finish support for 1581 drives: more disk turbos for copying files and disks.
Support for GCR-coded disk images.
A "Find file" function, with the ability to search for textual contents and, also, inside image and uncompressed archive files.
You can find a complete list of planned features in the Coming soon section of the documentation.
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