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Format: <string in about requester> = <version string(s)> - <List of changes> Release 1.0 = MakeCD 0.26 (23.10.96) - unsupported public beta version for Meeting Pearls IV. - see note on next release. Release 1.0 = MakeCD 1.1 (14.11.96) - initial non-beta version. - yes, the string in the about requester did not change. :-(. use "version full MakeCD" to find out the exact version. Release 1.1 = MakeCD 1.8 ReadWrite.module 1.9 SCSISupport.module 3.3 Yamaha.driver 3.4 PhilipsCDD2000.driver 3.4 PhilipsCDD2600.driver 3.4 CDROM.driver 3.3 ToshibaCD.driver 3.5 NecCD.driver 3.4 SonyCD.driver 3.4 - Rewrote reading/writing (new: ReadWrite.module) - ExAll() is used optionally, GUI is updated only every second => improved performance Scanning source paths is up to eight times faster now (compared to V1.0 with enabled GUI display). - More detailed error messages (all SCSI errors documented for CDD2000 or CDR-102 are explained with texts). - Instead of always using parallel IO MakeCD can be forced to read and write alternating. Try this if you had performance problems. - When reading/writing of a track fails, you can choose how to continue in a requester. - GUI for image creation is independent from reading and writing, i.e. opening the window's menu will not stop the image writing. - Writing speed can be set seperately for copying of audio tracks. - In the track list of a CD the start and end block of each track are listed => this way you can see if the driver could find the real track length. However, this is currently only the case with CD-Rs in a CD writer. Usually the tracks are listed including the pauses. - Mode 2 (XA) tracks are fully supported now. - You can set speed for audio reading/copying seperately. - You can select all tracks of a source CD at once for copying. - The Philips drivers send a RECOVER command as repair action: This helps to recover when power down occured while writing. The CD-R must not be removed before repairing. - Global switch between Motorola and Intel (MSF/LSF) audio format. - MakeCD makes sure the PMA (Program Memory Area) is updated when it stops writing tracks now. The Yamaha writer has no special command for this, so driver ejects the CD-R automatically. This has the same effect. - minor improvements - Bugfix: ISO images created with MakeCD were invalid sometimes: Especially large files might have been trashed. - Bugfix: Sometimes a wrong table of contents was written to CD-R. - Bugfix: A leading underscore in the ISO volume name is allowed. - Bugfix: Opening "Target CD-R" window trashed one byte of MakeCD's own memory. - Bugfix: When using the "Target CD-R" window for fixation, the TOC type was fixed to CD-ROM. Now the correct type is always selected automatically. - Workaround for some CD-ROM drives: TOC is read at once. Fixes problem with invalid track type and length. - Path prefixes cause invalid images => disabled for 1.1, not fixed yet. Release 1.2 = MakeCD 1.9 (01.01.97) makecdromfs.module 4.0 ReadWrite.module 1.10 SCSISupport.module 3.3 Yamaha.driver 3.4 PhilipsCDD2000.driver 3.4 PhilipsCDD2600.driver 3.4 CDROM.driver 3.3 ToshibaCD.driver 3.5 NecCD.driver 3.4 SonyCD.driver 3.4 - Bugfix (1.1): The volume name was always UNREGISTERED. - Bugfix (1.1): SCSI drivers were only found when MakeCD was started with the current directory set to its home directory. - Bugfix: The installer script didn't copy the ReadWrite.module - New: You can choose using an image file instead of the usual source even if the sizes differ. Release 1.3 = MakeCD 1.12 (17.01.97) makecdromfs.module 5.0 ReadWrite.module 1.12 (16.01.97) SCSISupport.module 3.3 (16.01.97) CDROM.driver 3.1 (16.01.97) NecCD.driver 3.5 (16.01.97) PhilipsCDD2000.driver 3.5 (16.01.97) PhilipsCDD2600.driver 3.5 (16.01.97) SonyCD.driver 3.5 (16.01.97) ToshibaCD.driver 3.6 (16.01.97) Yamaha.driver 3.5 (16.01.97) - Bugfix: MakeCD crashed cleaning up after image creation if one source path (but not the first one) was invalid. - Bugfix: Path prefixes work correctly now. - Bugfix: Using ExAll() for directory scanning skipped files in some directories. - When writing an image file to a CrossDos partition the file was always deleted afterwards because CrossDos reports a filesize of zero. Now MakeCD uses another function which works with CrossDos, too. Known Problems: - PhilipsCDD2600.driver is beta: reading does not work yet. - Drivers for sony and plextor CD writers are untested and only available on the web page. Release 2.0 = MakeCD 1.18 (06.02.97) makecdromfs.module V6.0 (06-02-1997) ReadWrite.module 2.6 (07.02.97) SCSISupport.module 4.6 (06.02.97) AtapiCD.driver 4.3 (06.02.97) CDROM.driver 4.3 (06.02.97) NecCD.driver 4.3 (06.02.97) PhilipsCDD2000.driver 4.6 (06.02.97) PhilipsCDD2600.driver 4.5 (06.02.97) Plextor.driver 4.5 (06.02.97) PlextorCD.driver 4.3 (06.02.97) SonyCD.driver 4.3 (06.02.97) ToshibaCD.driver 4.3 (06.02.97) Yamaha.driver 4.5 (06.02.97) - Multivolume CD-Rs, i.e. ISO images created by MakeCD can start at arbitraty blocks. Required "start block" setting for "Write Image File" to enable image creation if no CD writer is available and additional checks for correct track start when writing to CD-R. To read previous data tracks an ISO filesystem with multivolume support is required. - MakeCD uses the filenote of an image file to store its exact type and startblock, but doesn't utilize the type itself yet. - You are told if testmode is enabled in the write window and "Insert CD-R" requester. - Changed: When writing to CD-R, now temporary files are created when they are needed. Previously, all files that where not deleted immediately were written before writing the first track to CD-R. - Bugfix: MakeCD was busy waiting when writing an ISO image :-( In addition with the increased priority of the read/write processes this totally locked some computers. Now the priority is only increased when writing to CD-R. - MakeCD finds the end of data tracks exactly now by reading blocks and SCSIDrivers for CD writers remove 2 run out blocks from the track length. - You can set the length of the pause MakeCD will remove after an audio track. - Instead of files a trackdisk compatible device can be used to read/write an image from/into blocks directly. This is especially useful for testing an ISO image. In addition, performance is better. - The start of a source track can be set, too. - Incomplete tracks can be padded with zero to their full length and all options can be preset in the settings for automatic response. - Raw audio files and AIFF files may have arbitrary length; for raw audio files you can still set the old method of file length checking. - You can chose to set the kind of fixation in a requester which pops up when you start writing a CD-R. - Selecting SCSI devices was moved to a more comfortable requester. - You can set a global basedir for all files. This way all image files of one project can be written in one directory without changing all image file names. - All filesystems accessing the same device/unit as MakeCD are locked as soon as MakeCD needs them. - The source track requester remembers the old contents of the listview and updates upon invocation only if the selected track is not a member. - Performance improvement when reading/writing tracks with unusual block sizes from/to files. - More detailed status display when writing: Amount of data left in minutes can be used to calculated the time to write them easily - you only have to know the speed of you CD writer ;-) - When writing an image file to a CrossDos partition the file was always deleted afterwards because CrossDos reports a filesize of zero. Now MakeCD uses another function which works with CrossDos, too. - Multiselect for image files - Aborting writing offers a lot of new possibilities: Abort immediately, stop after track, skip track. - The Yamaha writes garbage if a track is shorter than 300 blocks. MakeCD adds empty blocks itself now. - The current gadget values are used for new tracks whenever suitable (previously only sometimes). Their state can be changed without any tracks and be saved permanently. - PhilipsCDD2600.driver: The six byte version of the SCSI read command is used and reading works now. It was obviously prevented by the broken implementation of the ten bytes version of read in the writer's firmware. - PhilipsCDD2600.driver/Plextor.driver: The invalid TOC delivered by these writers was not handled correctly by MakeCD, which prevented further writing to CD-Rs with at least one track. - GUI and other minor improvements - Cleanup after image creation is much faster now. Release 2.1 = MakeCD 1.21 (28.02.97) makecdromfs.module 7.5 (28-02-97) ReadWrite.module 3.1 (28.02.97) SCSISupport.module 5.1 (28.02.97) AtapiCD.driver 5.1 (28.02.97) CDROM.driver 5.1 (28.02.97) NecCD.driver 5.1 (28.02.97) PhilipsCDD2000.driver 5.1 (28.02.97) PhilipsCDD2600.driver 5.1 (28.02.97) Plextor.driver 5.1 (28.02.97) PlextorCD.driver 5.1 (28.02.97) SonyCD.driver 5.1 (28.02.97) ToshibaCD.driver 5.1 (28.02.97) Yamaha.driver 5.1 (28.02.97) - Multisession support: Add a previous data track on the CD-R as source in the ISO image window and the new image will list all files in this track, too. - You can select a CD-ROM driver as target now. This is needed for reading multisession tracks, because these tracks are always read from the target drive. - MakeCD can play audio data using the normal Amiga audio device. - When copying audio tracks directly MakeCD will ignore buffer overflows. ***Warning***: Previously, this was a fatal error but is changed now, because even CD-ROMs reporting this error are able to deliver data in good quality. Use the audio playing feature of MakeCD to check the quality of your CD-ROM. - New settings: Chunk size of buffer, audio read speed, audio track start. Reducing the read speed is nescessary with some drives to achieve a good quality. The start of an audio track can be changed automatically. CD-ROM drives are allowed to start reading at the wrong block, thus missing the first few blocks of a song without starting a few blocks earlier. - MakeCD uses optimized routines to swap byteorder now. Reading CDDA from very fast CD-ROM drives should still better be done with the byteorder delivered by the drive (at the moment always LSF for CD-ROM drives). - "nil:xyz" can be used as temporary image file. "nil:exists" is treated as an existing image file with same size as the primary source, i.e. is used as source. - You can react interactively to read errors now. Reading a track is no longer aborted automatically. Changed the settings for "incomplete copying" to reflect these change. - The testmode can be changed in the write CD-R window; writing CD-R doesn't start automatically anymore. - Changed the way the SCSI drivers reset their drives: They leave test mode on. Now Yamaha and probably all other writers don't "forget" the tracks they wrote with enabled test mode. Philips CDD2000 always remembers these tracks. You have to remove a CD-R you wrote to in test mode before really writing to it, because the CDD2000 would still write in test mode. - "Update" in the target CD-R window will try to force the writer to forget all tracks written with enabled test mode. - Fixation is now always done with maximum speed. - When aborting MakeCD tells what it is doing in the status lines. It especially points out if read or write process are currently waiting for IO - this should finally make clear that MakeCD is not crashed when the scsi device doesn't reply to IO requests :-/ - The write process will continue writing until its buffer is empty even if the read process encountered an error. - While scanning the source paths for ISO image creation the target image file is deleted. Otherwise it might be included in the ISO image file list, which - for obvious reasons - is not a good idea ;-) - ISO image window is an application window now: Drop an icon and a new path is added. The main window already had this feature. - The order of ISO image sources can be changed and is relevant: If there are name collisions, the file scanned first is included if you ignore the error. - MakeCD will leave 2MB memory free for ISO image creation when allocating its buffer. - The track requester will display the volume name instead of the track type if an ISO track is recognized. It will use this name or the text in the listview as track name, as long as the user doesn't enter something himself. - PUBSCREEN can be used in the shell or as tooltype to select a public screen. - GUI improvements (rearranged menus, added transfer rates to write window). - The device requester filters devices by name now before using NSD. This was nescessary because some buggy devices crashed when being queried by NSD. If you still encounter crashes when opening the device requester, please use NSDQuery to find the device to blame and report it to Heinz Wrobel. You may add this device to the NSDPatch configuration to make it NSD compliant. - Workaround for Commodore scsi.device crashing when accessing a scsi device for the first time. - A Toshiba MX-3401B delivers more audio data than being asked for, thus overwriting memory. Workaround in the ToshibaCD.driver. - Workaround for TOC reading with CDD2600 + Plextor - Setting reading speed for AtapiCD.driver (since V2.1 the driver requester shows if a driver can set the speed). - Bugfix: MakeCD crashed after writing data to raw blocks with a data length which was not an even multiple of 512. - Bugfix: The drivers for CD writers always removed two blocks from the track lengths. This was wrong for normal CDs read in a writer. It disabled the automatic end of track detection and removing the audio pause selected in the settings. - Bugfix: Appending a project was impossible. - Bugfix: Appending multiple image files changed the current track's source filename. - Bugfix: The PlextorCD.driver didn't set the speed correctly. Reading was limited to single speed. It was not able to write mode 2 tracks. - Bugfix: Reading with drivers that supported setting speed was not done with maximum speed. - Bugfix: Automatic TOC type detection failed for writers delivering no session infos, i.e. Plextor and perhaps Ricoh. The TOC type usually only matters for PSX copies. - Bugfix: Writing an ISO image more than once (aka "Retry" in an error requester) crashed. MakeCD 2.2 = MakeCD 1.25 (26.03.97) makecdromfs.module ReadWrite.module 4.3 (26.03.97) SCSISupport.module 6.3 (26.03.97) AtapiCD.driver 6.2 (27.03.97) CDROM.driver 6.2 (27.03.97) NecCD.driver 6.2 (27.03.97) PhilipsCDD2000.driver 6.3 (27.03.97) PhilipsCDD2600.driver 6.3 (27.03.97) PioneerCD.driver 5.1 (28.02.97) Plextor.driver 6.3 (27.03.97) PlextorCD.driver 6.2 (27.03.97) Sony.driver 6.0 (27.03.97) SonyCD.driver 6.2 (27.03.97) ToshibaCD.driver 6.2 (27.03.97) Yamaha.driver 6.3 (27.03.97) - New: Sony.driver Note (1): The Sony writers are very accurate regarding CD-ROM standards. You will not be able to write certain track types after some others (but you won't want to anyway). Note (2): Sony writers are not able to write XA tracks with a blocksize of 2048 (form 1) or 2328 (form 2). Therefore only the general mode 2 type is supported by MakeCD. You will be warned and may ignore the warning, but until a firmware supports this block sizes the writer will reject some commands as illegal. Note (3): The 926S seems to be unable to accept buffer chunks of more than approx. 240kB. It rejects the write command with "ILLEGAL FIELD IN COMMAND DESCRIPTOR". You have to reduce the chunk size in the settings. Note (4): The writer seems to be unable to simulate fixation. The test mode can really be enabled for writing tracks, but has no effect on fixation. The Sony.driver will therefore _not_ issue the fixation command if test mode is enabled. - The writer will not be told to start writing a track until data is really available. Previously, denying to insert the correct CD with the source track left a short empty track on the CD-R. - MakeCD saves all registers before calling OpenDevice(). This makes it possible to use broken devices that trash registers (e.g. mfm.device). - When repairing a CD-R MakeCD will not check the contents of the medium inserted because this check may fail for CD-Rs needing repair, thus preventing the issueing of the repair command :-/ - Changed the usage of "nil:" in image filenames. Now "nil:exists/xyz" with xyz being a number can be used as an existing image file with size xyz (even as primary source). - MakeCD will check if the available space is enough to write all tracks and fixate. It will distinguish several different cases: enough space for tracks, but not fixation (not nescessary for the current writer, because all reserve enough space for fixation themselves); only fixation not possible; fixation possible, but no new session (some writers refuse to fixate only the session in the last case, e.g. the Yamaha CDR 100). This check relies on a correct value of the free blocks on the CD-R. If you doubt that the warning is justified, you may ignore it and go on (preferable in test mode ;-). - When writing tracks MakeCD will ask for the CD-R before writing image files to check the available space now. - Default for changing the start of audio tracks is now zero blocks. In addition, the start of an audio track is only changed if the predecessor is an audio track, too. Some drives refused to deliver the blocks in front of real track start or are accurate anyway. - The type of every track is listed in the track listview. Pay attention to the type if you add image files: MakeCD was never and still is not able to guess the type always correctly! - Added recognition of all drives listed as tested in the Compatibility. If one of your drives is not known by MakeCD but works with a driver, please fill out a test report and send it to makecd@ira.uka.de. It will be added it to the Compatibility and recognized automatically by future drivers. Note: If your CD-ROM works with the SonyCD.driver, you might test the PlextorCD.driver,too, because this is a SonyCD.driver extended by speed setting. - Added DEBUG output for testing of device capabilities in the device requester. If you encounter crashes, please enable DEBUG by removing the brackets around the tooltype and report which devices causes the problem. See V2.1 history for more detailed notes on this subject. - PhilipsCDD2600.driver will no longer try to read session infos, because the result was incomplete due to the CDD2600 firmware. - Read errors during reading the track list from CD writers are now handled better. Previously tracks were simply left out. - Maximum speed (= 0) was not set correctly for Philips CDD521/522. This prevented fixation since V2.1, too, because this is always done in maximum speed. - Some CD-ROMs refuse to set 2048 as block size. Added additional check for current block size and retry. - When adding a new track the source track is no longer copied. - Implemented sequential IO for ISO image creation. - Changed DEBUG output. - Bugfix: "Stop after Track" didn't prevent fixation after last track. - Bugfix: Length of the last track on a CD-R sometimed included the run-out blocks. - Bugfix: The space for lead-out is not included in the free blocks reported by the writer. CD-Rs with zero blocks free could have been fixed, but MakeCD didn't try to do so. - Bugfix: Startblock of an ISO image was calculated wrong when writing only image files and the ISO image was not the first track. - Bugfix: When the automatic fixation after the last track failed, the error was not reported. - Bugfix: When reading an audio file not being a multiple of the blocksize the data was not padded correctly when writing directly to CD-R. This caused "unexpected phase errors". - Bugfix: The CD read speed was always set to the real speed of the CD writer. - Bugfix: The AtapiCD.driver didn't set the speed. - Bugfix: End of track recognition sometimes was wrong by one block. - Bugfix: Memory for session description texts was not freed. - Bugfix: Recovered errors were not ignored properly. - Added fixation and repair to the tools menu. - Bugfix: Error requester for image creation. - Bugfix: Upto 4 bytes were trashed when a track had a long volume name. - Bugfix: Potential timing problem handling write errors. - Bugfix: When reading the last track of a normal CD the CD was not recognized. MakeCD 2.2 Update 1 = ReadWrite.module 4.4 (10.04.97) SCSISupport.module 7.1 (13.04.97) AtapiCD.driver 7.1 (13.04.97) CDROM.driver 7.1 (13.04.97) JVC.driver 7.1 (13.04.97) NecCD.driver 7.1 (13.04.97) PhilipsCDD2000.driver 7.1 (13.04.97) PhilipsCDD2600.driver 7.2 (14.04.97) Plextor.driver 7.1 (13.04.97) PlextorCD.driver 7.1 (13.04.97) Sony.driver 7.1 (13.04.97) SonyCD.driver 7.1 (13.04.97) ToshibaCD.driver 7.1 (13.04.97) Yamaha.driver 7.1 (13.04.97) - added recognition of several drives, fixed recognition of Yamaha CDR102 - Bugfix: Setting the speed didn't work for all ATAPI drives. Reading was aborted with an "ILLEGAL FIELD IN COMMAND DESCRIPTOR" error then. - We finally received the CDD2600 documentation. Philips changed speed setting and reading session infos. The driver was changed accordingly. - Changed end of track recognition for Yamaha, because these drives crashed when asked for certain unreadable blocks at the end of a track. - New: JVC.driver Warning: This driver is still beta and perhaps will stay beta forever. I have already spent *very* much time on this driver and it's not possible to compensate all the problems the poor hardware causes. Try it and if it works well you are indeed lucky :-/ Problems I had to cope with: - The XR-W2010 I borrowed didn't work with an oktagon.device V6.8 and a omniscsi.device V6.11. It always rejected the first write command with an "ILLEGAL COMMAND" error. This turned out to be a very strange SCSI problem. The drive works now when connected to the Oktagon with no other device on this SCSI chain. - This drive is a very poor CD and CD-R reader. It could not read data or audio tracks itself has written although they are read well by a Yamaha CDR100 and a Matsushita CD-ROM and produced a lot of read errors with normal CDs. If you have the same problem, this will have several impacts: · Multisession merging will not work properly, because the previous tracks are scanned with the CD writer. · Mode 2 recognition will fail. Therefore XA CD-Rs will be fixed with the wrong TOC type. · The name of ISO tracks cannot be read. - With one CD-R the drive reported a start block which was higher the the end block. We wrote another track and both were listed correctly afterwards. The next track was wrong again and again writing one more track fixed the problem. You cannot fix a CD-R with invalid track starts with the JVC. You have to use either another CD writer or write more tracks and hope that this will help. MakeCD 2.2 Update 2 = Yamaha.driver 7.2 (16.04.97) - Bugfix Yamaha: Setting blocksize was broken in the last update, i.e. reading and writing didn't work at all :-(