Formatted Disk Image (FDI) file format version 2.1 specification (3rd revision)
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General remarks regarding data storage:
- Words, 3-byte values and double words are always big endian, that is
  most significant byte stored at the lowest address (first in the file).
- Within a byte, data is always stored from the most significant bit (number 7)
  to the least significant bit (number 0).
- When the size of data is not a multiple of 8 bits, the remaining unused
  least significant bits of the last byte of data are always set to 0.

  1. File Header
  2. Track Description
  3. Types 0xDn and 0xFn: raw FM/GCR/MFM data track
  4. Type 0xCn: FM/GCR raw decoded-data track
  5. Type 0xEn: MFM raw decoded-data track
  6. Type 0x8n-0xBn: pulses-index streams track


  1. File Header
  --------------

The header is at least 512 bytes in size.

Offset|Name|Size in bytes|Value      Description
 |      |       |           |             |
-------------------------------------------------------------------------------
+  0|signature|27|"Formatted Disk"|File signature
    |         |  |  ," Image file"|
    |         |  |        ,0xD,0xA|
+ 27|creator  |30| 0x20 by default|Creator's signature. For example:
    |         |  |                |"Disk2FDI PC/DOS version 1.0à3 "
+ 57|CR       | 2|         0xD,0xA|
+ 59|comment  |80| 0x1A by default|Comment describing the disk image contents
+139|EOF      | 1|            0x1A|End Of File (for DOS "type" command)
+140|version  | 2|             2,1|FDI format version number
+142|ltrack   | 2|               ?|Last cylinder in image (numb.of cylinders-1)
+144|lhead    | 1|               ?|Last head in image (number of heads - 1)
+145|type     | 1|               ?|0=8", 1=5.25", 2=3.5", 3=3"
+146|rotspeed | 1|               ?|Base rotation speed - 128 (in rotations/min)
+147|flags    | 1|       0000 0???|Flags
    |         |  |       ³³³³ ³³³À|=1 => Disk is write protected
    |         |  |       ³³³³ ³³ÀÄ|=1 => Image is index-synchronized
    |         |  |       ³³³³ ³ÀÄÄ|=1 => Heads are reversed in image
    |         |  |       ÀÁÁÁÄÁÄÄÄ|Reserved for future use
+148|tpi      | 1|               ?|TPI: 0=48, 1=67, 2=96, 3=100, 4=135, 5=192
+149|headwidth| 1|               ?|In TPI equivalent: 0=48, 1=67, ..., 5=192
+150|reserved | 2|               0|Reserved for future use
+152|tracks  |352|   See section 2|Tracks description (88 double-sided
    |         |  |                |cylinders reserved in first 512 bytes)
    |         |  |                |cylinder-ordered, then head-ordered for
    |         |  |                |each cylinder
+504|dataCRC  | 4|               ?|CRC32 (ZIP-like) calculated on all track
    |         |  |                |data stored in the file after the header
+508|headerCRC| 4|               ?|CRC32 (ZIP-like) calculated on the header,
    |         |  |                |i.e. the first 508 bytes of the file
-------------------------------------------------------------------------------

If there are more than 176 tracks, then one or more 512-byte blocks are
allocated for the extra tracks. Each extra block is filled with "tracks"
fields (see above), with the exception of the last 4 bytes of the last header
block, which contains the CRC32 value calculated on all the extra blocks, i.e.
starting from offset 512 in the file.


  2. Track Description
  --------------------

For each word in the "tracks" field of the header:

Offset|Name|Size in bytes|Value      Description
 |      |       |           |             |
-------------------------------------------------------------------------------
+  0|type     | 1|               ?|Track type:

The FDI 2.1 specification features 3 levels of data representation.
Lower levels offer a richer representation, especially useful for non-standard
or protected tracks.

    - High-level types:
        0x0=blank track (size field should be 0)
        0x1=MFM double-density Amiga-sectored track
        0x2=MFM high-density Amiga-sectored track
        0x3=MFM IBM-sectored track, 512 bytes/sector (no Index Address Mark)
        0x4=reserved
        0x5=MFM IBM-sectored track, 512 bytes/s. (Index Address Mark present)
        0x6=reserved
        0x7=reserved
        0x8=reserved
        0x9=reserved
        0xA=GCR C= 1541-sectored track
        0xB=GCR DOS 3.2.x- disk ][-sectored track (physical sector order)
        0xC=GCR DOS 3.3+ disk ][-sectored track (physical sector order)
        0xD=GCR Apple 3.5"-sectored track (physical sector order)
        0xE=FM IBM-sectored track, 256 bytes/sector
        0xF-0x7F=reserved for future use

    - Mid-level types:
        0xCn=FM and/or GCR raw decoded-data track
        0xDn=raw FM and/or GCR data track
            For types 0xCn and 0xDn, n=bit rate:
                0=125 Kbit/s
                1=150 Kbit/s
                2=250 Kbit/s
                3=300 Kbit/s
                4=500 Kbit/s
                5=Apple 3.5" GCR, tracks 48-63 (281.25 Kbit/s)
                6=Apple 3.5" GCR, tracks 32-47 (312.5 Kbit/s)
                7=Apple 3.5" GCR, tracks 16-31 (343.75 Kbit/s)
                8=Apple 3.5" GCR, tracks 0-15 (375 Kbit/s)
                9=Commodore 1541 speed zone 1 (tracks 25-30)
                10=Commodore 1541 speed zone 2 (tracks 18-24)
                11=Commodore 1541 speed zone 3 (tracks 1-17)
                12-14=reserved for future use
                15=implied bit rate

        0xEn=MFM raw decoded-data track, upward compatible with FDI version
             1.0: tracks imaged into type 0xEn version 2.1 will work with a
             software designed for type 0xEn version 1.0.
        0xFn=raw MFM data track
            For types 0xEn and 0xFn, n=bit rate:
                0=125 Kbit/s
                1=150 Kbit/s
                2=250 Kbit/s
                3=300 Kbit/s
                4=500 Kbit/s
                5=1 Mbit/s
                6-14=reserved for future use
                15=implied bit rate

    - Low-level type:
        0x8n-0xBn=pulses-index streams track

+  1|size     | 1| (tracksize/256)|Size of track data.

Size of track data in image in multiple of 256 bytes. If the real size is not
a multiple of 256 bytes, then it is increased to the next 256-byte boundary,
and the added bytes are set to 0.
Exceptions:
    - in the case of an Amiga double-density track (type 1):
      high 4 bits=first sector in track
      low 4 bits=size of track data in image in multiple of 512 bytes
    - for types 0x8n-0xBn, the size (multiple of 256 bytes) is a 14-bit
      value, which 6 higher bits are coded in the 6 lower bits of the "type"
      byte, and the 8 lower bits are coded in the "size" byte.


  3. Types 0xDn and 0xFn: raw FM/GCR/MFM data track
  -------------------------------------------------

Offset|Name |Size in bytes|Description
 |      |           |           |
-------------------------------------------------------------------------------
+  0|size     |         4|Exact size (in bits) of track until it loops
+  4|indexpos |         4|Offset in bits to the index signal from the
    |         |          |beginning of the data
+  8|rawdata  |size/8(+1)|Raw data, FM and/or GCR encoded for type 0xDn,
    |         |          |or MFM-encoded for type 0xFn


  4. Type 0Cxh: FM/GCR raw decoded-data track
  -------------------------------------------

Offset|Name|Size in bytes|Description
 |      |       |           |
-------------------------------------------------------------------------------
+  0|encoding | 1|Type of encoding:
    |         |  |0=standard FM
    |         |  |1=Commodore GCR
    |         |  |2-0xFF=reserved for future use
+  1|indexpos | 3|Offset in bits to the index signal from the beginning of
    |         |  |the data, re-encoded to FM/GCR
+  4|cookedata| n|Data descriptors, see below:

Note that no Apple GCR was defined, because the self-synchronization process
can lose some '0' bits, so an Apple GCR track should be imaged as a type 0xDn.


List of standard FM (type 0) descriptors:

===============================================================================
data type description  |data|packed data extension:      |unpacked data
                       |type|size in bytes-              |DD stands for data
                       |byte|description of the field    |byte
===============================================================================
one "0" bit            |0x00|-                           |0
-------------------------------------------------------------------------------
one "1" bit            |0x01|-                           |1
-------------------------------------------------------------------------------
deleted data FM sync   |0x02|-                           |1*0xF56A
-------------------------------------------------------------------------------
data FM sync           |0x03|-                           |1*0xF56B
-------------------------------------------------------------------------------
data FM sync           |0x04|-                           |1*0xF56E
-------------------------------------------------------------------------------
standard data FM sync  |0x05|-                           |1*0xF56F
-------------------------------------------------------------------------------
standard FM index sync |0x06|-                           |1*0xF77A
-------------------------------------------------------------------------------
standard FM header sync|0x07|-                           |1*0xF57E
===============================================================================
In this section, FM-decoded data is re-encoded by inserting a '1' bit before
every data bit.  For RLE data, a size of 0 means 256 bytes.
-------------------------------------------------------------------------------
RLE FM/GCR-encoded data|0x08|1-size in bytes, 1-data byte|X*DD
-------------------------------------------------------------------------------
RLE FM-decoded data    |0x09|1-size in bytes, 1-data byte|X*DD
-------------------------------------------------------------------------------
FM/GCR-encoded data    |0x0A|2-size in bits,             |X*DD
                       |    |ceil(size in bits/8)-data   |
-------------------------------------------------------------------------------
FM/GCR-encoded data    |0x0B|2-(size in bits-65536),     |X*DD
                       |    |ceil(size in bits/8)-data   |
-------------------------------------------------------------------------------
FM-decoded data        |0x0C|2-size in bits,             |X*DD
                       |    |ceil(size in bits/8)-data   |
-------------------------------------------------------------------------------
FM-decoded data        |0x0D|2-(size in bits-65536),     |X*DD
                       |    |ceil(size in bits/8)-data   |
===============================================================================
                       |0x0E|-                           |
reserved               | ...|-                           |
                       |0xFE|-                           |
===============================================================================
end of buffer          |0xFF|-                           |
===============================================================================


List of Commodore GCR (type 1) descriptors:

===============================================================================
data type description  |data|packed data extension:       |unpacked data
                       |type|size in bytes-               |DD stands for data
                       |byte|description of the field     |byte
===============================================================================
reserved               |0x00|-                            |
-------------------------------------------------------------------------------
reserved               |0x01|-                            |
===============================================================================
CBM GCR sync mark      |0x02|2-size in bits               |X '1' bits
===============================================================================
                       |0x03|-                            |
reserved               | ...|-                            |
                       |0x07|-                            |
===============================================================================
In this section, every GCR-decoded nibble is re-encoded by using the standard
Commodore GCR encoding table. For RLE data, a size of 0 means 256 bytes.
-------------------------------------------------------------------------------
RLE FM/GCR-encoded data|0x08|1-size in bytes, 1-data byte |X*DD
-------------------------------------------------------------------------------
RLE C= GCR-decoded data|0x09|1-size in bytes, 1-data byte |X*DD
-------------------------------------------------------------------------------
FM/GCR-encoded data    |0x0A|2-size in bits,              |X*DD
                       |    |ceil(size in bits/8)-data    |
-------------------------------------------------------------------------------
FM/GCR-encoded data    |0x0B|2-(size in bits-65536),      |X*DD
                       |    |ceil(size in bits/8)-data    |
-------------------------------------------------------------------------------
CBM GCR-decoded data   |0x0C|2-size in nibbles,           |X*DD
                       |    |ceil(size in nibbles/2)-data |
===============================================================================
                       |0x0D|-                            |
reserved               | ...|-                            |
                       |0xFE|-                            |
===============================================================================
end of buffer          |0xFF|-                            |
===============================================================================


  5. Type 0Exh: MFM raw decoded-data track
  ----------------------------------------

Offset|Name|Size in bytes|Description
 |      |       |           |
-------------------------------------------------------------------------------
+  0|encoding | 1|Type of encoding:
    |         |  |0=standard MFM
    |         |  |1-0xFF=reserved for future use
+  1|indexpos | 3|Offset in bits to the index signal from the beginning of
    |         |  |the data, re-encoded to MFM
+  4|cookedata| n|Data descriptors, see below:

Please note that the following descriptors have been significantly simplified
over FDI version 1.0: Types 0x00 to 0x0D, and 0xFF are unchanged, while all
other types have been removed.

List of standard MFM (type 0) descriptors:

===============================================================================
data type description |data|packed data extension:  |unpacked data
                      |type|size in bytes-          |DD stands for data byte
                      |byte|description of the field|
===============================================================================
In this section, MFM re-encoded data for types 0x02 and 0x03 include the first
MFM synchronization bit. They also include the next MFM synchronization bit if
they are immediately followed by MFM-decoded data of type 0x0C or 0x0D.
-------------------------------------------------------------------------------
one "0" bit           |0x00|-                       |0
-------------------------------------------------------------------------------
one "1" bit           |0x01|-                       |1
-------------------------------------------------------------------------------
standard MFM sync     |0x02|-                       |1*0x4489
-------------------------------------------------------------------------------
standard Index sync   |0x03|-                       |1*0x5224
-------------------------------------------------------------------------------
one MFM sync bit      |0x04|-                       |1 if both neighboring
                      |    |                        |bits are 0, 0 otherwise.
===============================================================================
                      |0x05|-                       |
reserved              | ...|-                       |
                      |0x07|-                       |
===============================================================================
In this section, MFM re-encoded data do NOT include the 2 outter MFM sync bits.
For RLE data, a size of 0 means 256 bytes.
-------------------------------------------------------------------------------
RLE MFM-encoded data  |0x08|1-size in bytes, 1-data byte|X*DD
-------------------------------------------------------------------------------
RLE MFM-decoded data  |0x09|1-size in bytes, 1-data byte|X*DD
-------------------------------------------------------------------------------
MFM-encoded data      |0x0A|2-size in bits,          |X*DD
                      |    |ceil(size in bits/8)-data|
-------------------------------------------------------------------------------
MFM-encoded data      |0x0B|2-(size in bits-65536),  |X*DD
                      |    |ceil(size in bits/8)-data|
-------------------------------------------------------------------------------
MFM-decoded data      |0x0C|2-size in bits,          |X*DD
                      |    |ceil(size in bits/8)-data|
-------------------------------------------------------------------------------
MFM-decoded data      |0x0D|2-(size in bits-65536),  |X*DD
                      |    |ceil(size in bits/8)-data|
===============================================================================
                      |0x0E|-                       |
reserved              | ...|-                       |
                      |0xFE|-                       |
===============================================================================
end of buffer         |0xFF|-                       |
===============================================================================


  6. Type 0x8n-0xBn: pulses-index streams track
  ---------------------------------------------

             |         |  Size in|
       Offset|Name     |    bytes|Description
-------------------------------------------------------------------------------
+           0|numpulses|        4|Number of pulses recorded for the track
+           4|averagesz|        3|Size in bytes of the "average" stream in the
             |         |         |file + Compression type of this stream
+           7|minsize  |        3|Size in bytes of the "minimum" stream in the
             |         |         |file + Compression type of this stream
+          10|maxsize  |        3|Size in bytes of the "maximum" stream in the
             |         |         |file + Compression type of this stream
+          13|indexsize|        3|Size in bytes of the "index" stream in the
             |         |         |file + Compression type of this stream
+          16|averagedt|averagesz|"average" stream data
+16+averagesz|mindata  |  minsize|"minimum" stream data (optional)
+16+averagesz|maxdata  |  maxsize|"maximum" stream data (optional)
   +minsize  |         |         |
+16+averagesz|indexdata|indexsize|"index" stream data
   +minsize  |         |         |
   +maxsize  |         |         |

Each of the size fields (averagesz, minsize, maxsize and indexsize) contains
the size of the corresponding data in the lower 22 bits, and the compression
type in the high 2 bits.


Description of the 4 streams of data:

The track data is represented by the pulses recorded directly from the floppy
drive Read Data line. Each stream is a list of sequential pulses, the last
pulse directly preceding the first (data loops). Each pulse is described at
the same position in each stream.

        - Average stream:
When uncompressed, each pulse in this stream is a 4-byte data representing
the average time elapsed since the previous strong pulse. A pulse is detected
as strong or weak using the "index" stream.
Additionally, the whole track "time" can be calculated by adding all data
from each strong pulse in this stream. This whole track time is guaranteed to
fit in 32 bits. The real time of each pulse can then be calculated by dividing
this whole time by the real track time (0.2 sec for a standard PC 3.5" disk
drive or low-density 5.25" disk drive, 1/6 sec for a standard PC high-density
disk drive).

        - Minimum stream:
This stream is optional. When uncompressed, each pulse in this stream is a
4-byte data representing the minimum time elapsed since the previous strong
pulse. It is in fact encoded as (average - real minimum), so the real value
must be calculated from the stream minimum as (average - stream minimum).
When using this minimum value, keep in mind that changing the average value
towards this minimum value must be done according to the minimum and
maximum values from the other neighboring pulses, so that the whole track
time is maintained and no minimum or maximum value is exceeded.

        - Maximum stream:
This stream is optional. Still, it cannot exist without the minimum stream.
When uncompressed, each pulse in this stream is a 4-byte data representing
the maximum time elapsed since the previous strong pulse. It is in fact
encoded as ((average - real minimum) - (real maximum - average)), so the real
value must be calculated from the stream minimum and maximum values as
(average + stream minimum - stream maximum).
When using this maximum value, keep in mind that changing the average value
towards this maximum value must be done according to the minimum and
maximum values from the other neighboring pulses, so that the whole track
time is maintained and no minimum or maximum value is exceeded.

        - Index stream:
When uncompressed, each pulse in this stream is a 2-byte data representing
the average status of the index signal quickly after the pulse occured.
The most significant byte is a count for the '1' state of the index signal.
The least significant byte is a count for the '0' state of the index signal.
Additionally, the corresponding pulse can be detected as strong or weak by
the following algorithm:
  - search in the stream for the maximum of the sum of these 2 bytes
  - if the current sum of these 2 bytes = maximum sum => pulse is strong
  - if the current sum of these 2 bytes < maximum sum => pulse is weak


Possible values (compression types) for the high 2 bits of averagesz, minsize,
maxsize and indexsize:
0=no compression
1=Huffman-type compression
2=reserved for future use
3=reserved for future use


For type 1, a stream is encoded into one or more sub-streams as follows:

A sub-stream corresponds to a portion of the stream, from a determined low bit
number to a determined high bit number of each value (for example from bit
number 8 to bit number 15 of each value in the stream). If more than one
sub-stream encodes the stream, the sub-streams are ordered from the higher
orders first to the lower orders last. The low bit number of the last
sub-stream is always 0.

Each sub-stream is encoded as follows:

First byte: bits 0-6: low-order bit number (included) of the stream values
                      that is encoded into the sub-stream.
            bit 7: 0=decoded values must be zero-extended. 1=decoded values
                   must be sign-extended, from bit 7 or bit 15.

Second byte: bits 0-6: high-order bit number (included) of the stream values
                       that is encoded into the sub-stream.
             bit 7: 0=8-bit values in the tree. 1=16-bit values in the tree.


Following bytes: Huffman tree, encoded as bits. Bit 7 to bit 0 of the first
byte, then bit 7 to bit 0 of the next byte, etc.
For each bit:
0=node has 2 branches.
1=node is a leaf.
The bit following a 0 bit corresponds to the left branch.
The bit following a 1 bit corresponds to the deepest available right branch.
When no right branch is available after a 1 bit, then the tree is complete,
and the tree leaf values begin at the byte following immediately the byte
containing the last 1 bit of the tree. The tree values are 8 or 16-bit values
(depending on bit 7 of the second byte of the sub-stream) that correspond to
a path in the Huffman tree. The values are stored in the same order as the 1
bits are found in the encoded Huffman tree.

The packed data immediately follow the tree leaf values, a 0 bit meaning a
left branch in the tree, and a 1 bit meaning a right branch. The bits are
stored in bits 7 to 0 of the first byte, then bits 7 to 0 of the second byte,
etc. When a leaf is reached, then the corresponding tree leaf value must be
zero or sign-extended, then output to the appropriate bits of the decoded
stream. The number of values to decode corresponds to the number of pulses
recorded for the track.


--- End of Formatted Disk Image (FDI) file format version 2.1 specification ---

                                                  Vincent Joguin.
