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- Format:
-
- <string in about requester> = <version string(s)>
- - <List of changes>
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- 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)
- Plextor.driver 3.0 (17.01.97)
- SonyCD.driver 3.5 (16.01.97)
- ToshibaCD.driver 3.6 (16.01.97)
- Yamaha.driver 3.5 (16.01.97)
-
- - New: Plextor PX-R24CS(i) CD writer
- - 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.
- - The driver for sony CD writers is totally untested and only available
- on the web page.
-
-
- Release 2.0 (not available yet!):
-
- - Better multisession support
- - PhilipsCDD2000.driver recognizes PHILIPS and MITSUMI CD-R CR-2401TS.
- - MakeCD finds the end of data tracks exactly now by reading blocks.
- - 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.
- - 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.
- - The reaction to an incomplete reading can be selected in the global
- settings.
- - 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 ;-)
- - minor changes
-