Broken X Disk Manager News 

Happy New Year 2008!

Version 4.03 fixes errors that were found during the development of version 4.1 till now.
Please see the Development History for details.

Downloads:

• Demo Version 4.03
• Professional Version 4.03
• Demo Version 3.95 for Windows 98/Me
• Microsoft GDI+
• 7-Zip DLL (7z[x]a.dll, in Extra Modules)
• [More downloads…]

Version 4.02 fixes an error and allows the Professional Version to support Unicode registration names.

The Broken X Homepage got a new main domain: brokenx.com. The old domain broken-cross.com will be available for quite some time. However, please update your favorites/bookmarks anyhow.

Version 4.01 fixes errors found in version 4.0 till now and brings improved Freedb support.

The final version 4 is now available!
First, the program was renamed to Broken X Disk Manager. This does however of course not affect the licenses of registered users.
The user interfaced was modernized with new icons and graphics. There is now only the Unicode version available, but additionally there is now also an x64 edition available for registered users. The database encoding changed to not increase file size for most databases.
New features include the creation and storage of audio previews for sound, music and video files.
The modernization of the program also took a casualty -- Disk Manager now only supports Windows 2000 and later. An older program version is provided for prior Windows operating systems, which may still receive bug fixes.
There were many other changes made, please see the Development History for details.

Version 3.95 adds the latest bug fixes of version 4 into the 3.x series. Please see the Development History for details.
The final version 4.0 will be released in the next days.

I wish all visitors a happy new year 2007!

Version 3.94 fixes more errors found during development of version 4.
Please see the Development History for details.

Update: The new version reported itself as version 3.93.2201 instead of 3.94.2201. This was fixed.

Version 3.93 fixes errors that were found during development of version 4 till now.
Please see the Development History for details.

This will very likely be the last version of the 3.x series - if no severe bugs emerge. Version 4 development already begun. Beside new features version 4 will also bring some other changes:

• The program was renamed to Broken X Disk Manager. This will of course not affect registered users, licenses will still be valid for all future versions of the program.
  You can now already reach my website with new addresses: http://www.brokenx.com and http://dm.brokenx.com.
• In version 4 there will only be the Unicode version. That means the software will no longer support Windows 95/98/Me. I plan this because there have already been too many compatibility issues with those Windows versions in the past. It's getting harder and harder to implement new features as well for those old systems. Moreover, Microsoft stopped offering support for Win98/Me in July, so there are no more security fixes and updates available.
  The MBCS version will then make room for an x64 edition (Professional Version only) and maybe a Disk Manager - Browser Edition.
• Version 4 stores databases in UTF-8 format to not increase the size due to Unicode encoding.

Broken X Disk Manager was successfully tested under Windows Vista™ (Beta2).