MSX disk editor for Linux

Have a look over here

openMSX is full of surprises! I have been using it on and off for a couple of years and never known of diskmanipulator command. :) Thanks AuroraMSX!

Yep. And if you want to try by hand (without GUI) anyway, check out the manual. But the GUI is a lot cooler of course :) A link to a snapshot is on our website. Needs PyQt4 (4.3); run it by typing 'make'. Packaging is not worked on yet :P

By the way, I thought you meant low level disk editor at first. For that, simply use a binary editor to edit the disk image :P

For basic command line programs, check wrdsk/rddsk (by Arnold Metselaar) or dodsk (by Kanima?). I still use wrdsk/rddsk regularly (Mostly because I'm used to it.)
Also, I think in the openMSX code repository, there is a (now outdated?) separate version of the predecessor of diskmanipulator called msxtar:
http://openmsx.svn.sourceforge.net/viewvc/openmsx/msxtar/trunk/

I have no idea about the status of it, though...

I checked out the most recent version of msxtar. It look good and works as expected. This is exactly what I have been looking for. Thank you very much for your help, guys!

Manuel, is there source code available for wrdsk and rddsk or do you have Linux binaries of them?

I've tried to compile the c source for rddsk from http://fms.komkon.org/fMSX/DiskUtilities16.tar.gz, but all I get are warnings and errors...

$ gcc -o rddsk rddsk.c
rddsk.c: In function ‘OpenDisk’:
rddsk.c:148:2: warning: implicit declaration of function ‘exit’ [-Wimplicit-function-declaration]
  exit(2);
  ^
rddsk.c:148:2: warning: incompatible implicit declaration of built-in function ‘exit’
rddsk.c:148:2: note: include ‘’ or provide a declaration of ‘exit’
rddsk.c:154:6: warning: incompatible implicit declaration of built-in function ‘exit’
      exit(2);
      ^
rddsk.c:154:6: note: include ‘’ or provide a declaration of ‘exit’
rddsk.c:159:6: warning: incompatible implicit declaration of built-in function ‘exit’
      exit(2);
      ^
rddsk.c:159:6: note: include ‘’ or provide a declaration of ‘exit’
rddsk.c:165:6: warning: incompatible implicit declaration of built-in function ‘exit’
      exit(2);
      ^
rddsk.c:165:6: note: include ‘’ or provide a declaration of ‘exit’
rddsk.c:175:6: warning: incompatible implicit declaration of built-in function ‘exit’
      exit(2);
      ^
rddsk.c:175:6: note: include ‘’ or provide a declaration of ‘exit’
rddsk.c:188:6: warning: incompatible implicit declaration of built-in function ‘exit’
      exit(2);
      ^
rddsk.c:188:6: note: include ‘’ or provide a declaration of ‘exit’
rddsk.c: In function ‘ReadFile’:
rddsk.c:259:2: warning: incompatible implicit declaration of built-in function ‘exit’
  exit(2);
  ^
rddsk.c:259:2: note: include ‘’ or provide a declaration of ‘exit’
rddsk.c:294:8: warning: extra tokens at end of #endif directive [-Wendif-labels]
 #endif POOR
        ^
rddsk.c: In function ‘main’:
rddsk.c:355:2: warning: incompatible implicit declaration of built-in function ‘exit’
  exit(2);
  ^
rddsk.c:355:2: note: include ‘’ or provide a declaration of ‘exit’
rddsk.c:362:2: warning: incompatible implicit declaration of built-in function ‘exit’
  exit(1);
  ^
rddsk.c:362:2: note: include ‘’ or provide a declaration of ‘exit’
rddsk.c:374:3: warning: incompatible implicit declaration of built-in function ‘exit’
   exit(2);
   ^
rddsk.c:374:3: note: include ‘’ or provide a declaration of ‘exit’
/tmp/ccNjvd3q.o: In function `masks':
rddsk.c:(.text+0x15a): undefined reference to `xalloc'
/tmp/ccNjvd3q.o: In function `OpenDisk':
rddsk.c:(.text+0x40c): undefined reference to `rdsh'
rddsk.c:(.text+0x4a2): undefined reference to `rdsh'
rddsk.c:(.text+0x517): undefined reference to `rdsh'
rddsk.c:(.text+0x53e): undefined reference to `rdsh'
rddsk.c:(.text+0x5ad): undefined reference to `xalloc'
/tmp/ccNjvd3q.o: In function `rdtime':
rddsk.c:(.text+0x78d): undefined reference to `rdsh'
rddsk.c:(.text+0x7d4): undefined reference to `rdsh'
/tmp/ccNjvd3q.o: In function `ReadFile':
rddsk.c:(.text+0xb69): undefined reference to `rdlg'
rddsk.c:(.text+0xb83): undefined reference to `rdsh'
rddsk.c:(.text+0xc75): undefined reference to `ReadFAT'
/tmp/ccNjvd3q.o: In function `lsl':
rddsk.c:(.text+0xdf9): undefined reference to `rdlg'
collect2: error: ld returned 1 exit status

Alternatively, is there a way to run openmsx headless, and have it execute a diskmanipulator command to extract the file, without having to display the interface? That way I could maybe automate certain things from my VPS without X running. :)