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.
Mac Apple Silicon and Intel v1.5.5 builds are available as complete signed app bundles.
What changed
Windows v1.5.7 uses consistent --drive=B-style arguments and removes the unsupported drive option from device-info commands.
Drive cleaning uses the selected drive and COM port. Includes Tandy / TRS-80 DMK reading and writing, with the single-sided Model II read profile.
Install the optional gw2dmk tools from Settings > Software Updates, then select Tandy / TRS-80 for DMK reads or open a .dmk image to write.
Queued DMK writes use the same workflow. Native and console logs retain details of read errors and early tool failures.
DMK writes are explicitly marked not verified; check the disk with a separate read-back.
Mac Apple Silicon and Intel downloads remain at v1.5.5; DMK integration is available in the Windows build.
Supported families
If GreaseWeazle can handle the format, HamsterWeazle is built to make that path easier to live in.