Super Media Manager

Media Manager is a program to help you manage microdrive cartridges, including some semi-automated recovery tools, similar to Cartridge Doctor.

Originally written by Colin Opie, it was later upgraded to handle disks and non-QL formats (BBC / Acorn DFS, CP/M 40 track disks and MS-DOS disks), and re-named 'Super Media Manager'.

Chas Dillon appears to have then re-written the program, and it was released in 1989 as 'Media Manager Special Edition' - although this version used a specific foreign file handling program (Xover by Stefan Schmidt) this handled Atari-TOS and MS-DOS disks and no longer supported BBC or CP/M format disks.

Chas Dillon has since made the SuperBASIC sources for the main program public domain.

Advertised features include:

Selective directory, copying and erasing of files
sector loading and viewing (cursor controlled)
Sector editing - HEX and ASCII input allowed. Automatically reports when mapping sectors.
Sector copying to sector, file, device etc
Viewing, printing or saving of drive map details
Automatic (semi-automatic on disks) recovery of deleted files
Bulk recovery of corrupt files to new files
Header block or disk type information display
Ultrafast string searching by sector or file
Full directory sort facility - by name, size, type, date etc
Control up to 256 microdrives or disks - directory of directories
Direct file copying from other disk formats (PC-DOS, MS-DOS, CP/M, Acorn DFS etc)
Sector copying to other disk formats
Text file translation utility - expands tabs, converts CR/LF to LF intelligently, converted files may be imported to Quill
Disk sector editing for both QL and non-QL format disks, with all the usual features
Full error reporting with automatic recovery
Hexadecimal calculator

Title: Media Manager
Language: Unknown
Author: Colin Opie and later Chas Dillon with Xover by Stefan Schmidt
Publisher: Digital Precision Ltd
Year of Publication: 1986
Platforms Suitable for: All Sinclair QLs and emulators
Commercial Status: Public Domain
Price in July 1987: £39.95
Reviewed: Unknown
Sources Available from: Media Manager Special Edition Sources
Latest Version available from: Unknown