GreaseWeazle GUI for modern archiving
HamsterWeazle
HamsterWeazle gives GreaseWeazle a friendlier home: clean imaging workflows, smarter auto-detection, and fewer command-line detours when you just want to rescue disks and get back to the fun part.
- ✓ Read, write, erase, and verify floppy disks from one place.
- ✓ Auto Read probes common formats and starts the best full read automatically.
- ✓ Write Queue and Inbox keep repeat jobs and new images within easy reach.
- ✓ HxCFloppyEmulator integration makes disk images browsable without extra juggling.
Downloads
Windows
Windows 10/11 x64 · .NET 10 Desktop Runtime required
Mac
Apple Silicon and Intel builds are now available directly from Mean Hamster.
Apple Silicon v1.5.10 brings the Workbench interface to Mac and is signed and Apple-notarized. Intel v1.5.5 remains available. Both downloads include complete app bundles.
What changed
Windows and Apple Silicon v1.5.10 introduce Workbench: a compact operation rail, a fixed-size retro drive display, and a tabbed image library.
Settings opens in the workspace and saves automatically. Activity has its own scroll area; the optional track map starts off and remembers your choice.
Capture reports save automatically beside images. The Inbox lists disk images only; view reports from the image menu or analyze a saved log.
Rescue Read combines eligible sector-image captures into a new copy, keeping your original images and previously good sectors.
Browse and extract FAT12 files, create DOS images, and import files in a separate Tools window. Image changes save to a new copy.
Auto Read checks complete probe results, and writes check image geometry before starting. DMK writes still require a separate read-back.
Light, Dark, and Amiga appearances are available. Buy Me a Coffee is visible in the header. Intel Mac remains at v1.5.5.
Supported families
If GreaseWeazle can handle the format, HamsterWeazle is built to make that path easier to live in.