Release Notes For AdvanceCD

AdvanceCD 2.6.0

This release removes the size limitation of 1 GB on the USB disks and it improves the USB boot support.

In Linux remember to compile and install the new makebootfat 1.2 program before creating USB disks.

AdvanceCD 2.5.0

This release is only an upgrade to the most recent available software.

It improves the support of USB input devices and it fixes some issues with the audio volume control.

AdvanceCD 2.4.0

This release adds support for booting from an USB disk and from a Fixed disk partition.

The USB disk format used is compatible with both the USB-FDD (Floppy Disk Drive) and USB-HDD (Hard Disk Drive) BIOS boot modes.

To support both the format, it's used a custom MBR sector that can be also interpreted as a FAT boot sector. For example, in Linux you can mount the devices /dev/sda and also /dev/sda1. Both are valid FAT filesystems.

For the USB disk the syslinux boot tool is used. For the Fixed disk partition the FreeDOS and loadlin tools are used.

AdvanceCD 2.3.0

This version adds support for the AdvanceSCAN rom manager for checking your romset before making the CD image. For the Windows platform, the AdvanceSCAN executable is already included in the AdvanceCD distribution, for the other platforms, you must install it manually.

AdvanceSCAN is available at:

http://advancemame.sourceforge.net/

This version also updates to the last available version the AdvanceMAME, AdvanceMESS, AdvanceMENU, ALSA, busybox and syslinux programs.