+- Discussion Forum for all things Microbee (https://microbeetechnology.com.au/forum)
+-- Forum: Microbee Forum (https://microbeetechnology.com.au/forum/forum-1.html)
+--- Forum: Repository Additions (https://microbeetechnology.com.au/forum/forum-3.html)
+--- Thread: DEAD Manual and Disk for the Microbee (/thread-962.html)
DEAD Manual and Disk for the Microbee - ChickenMan - 25-10-2025
Thanks to davidm for making a copy of the manual available to be scanned. It was a photocopy in good condition but missing the front cover. A simple made up cover was added to this A4 manual that's 31 pages long.
DEAD is Disk Editor and Diagnostics program written by Software Solutions, Elwood, Victoria in 1983. It is version 1.14 and the same for the manual. I have had this program for many years but with little internal help its was difficult to use and an internet search was almost impossible with a name like DEAD. The program was placed on an autobooting DS40 disk for ease of use.
Diagnostics include:-
* Detection and elimination of bad disk blocks.
* Verification of a specified area of a disk.
* Validation of the disk directory.
* Restoration of erased files provided the files have not been overwritten.
* Display of disk parameters.
* Display of disk directory.
* Erasure of files.
DEAD provides access to a disk for:-
* Movement to any specified position on a disk by specifying the track, sector, block or file.
* Movement within a particular file, with editing.
* Movement may be by physical or logical sector numbers.
* Reading or writing any specific sector.
* Moving a specific sector to another location, even another disk.
* Calculation of block number from track/sector information or vice versa.
* Modification of any one or more bytes anywhere on the disk.
* Dumps are displayed in both Hex and ASCII.
So in the MbeeTech Repository in the Microbee\Software\Utilities folder we placed
dead_ds40.dsk
dead_v1.14_manual.pdf <-- in the Documentation\Manuals\Software folder