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                            History For AdvanceSCAN
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1 ADVANCESCAN VERSION 1.7 2003/08
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* Added support for reading XML info file.
* Updated with automake 1.7.6.


2 ADVANCESCAN VERSION 1.6 2003/05
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* Fixed the support for zips with additional data descriptors.
* Updated with autoconf 2.57 and automake 1.7.4.
* Added support for the new `nodump' flag in MAME 0.68.
* Removed the `redump' output because no more required.
  Now MAME 0.68 outputs the correct crc and no more
  the NOT version. No more ambiguity.
* Some fixes for the gcc 3.3 compiler.


3 ADVANCESCAN VERSION 1.5 2003/02
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* Removed the recompression utilities. Now they are in the
  AdvanceCOMP package.


4 ADVANCESCAN VERSION 1.4 2002/12
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* Fixed a bug in the advmng utility when it was called with
  more than one file in the command line. The program
  was incorrectly adding a PLTE chunk at rgb images.


5 ADVANCESCAN VERSION 1.3 2002/11
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* Fixed a bug in the advscan utility. When a .zip file was completly
  removed the program was aborting with a "Failed stat" message
  because it was trying to reread the just deleted file.
* Added the support for the transparency tRNS chunk at the
  advpng utility.
* Improved the garbage detector for zipped roms.
* Upgraded at the lastest Advance Library.
* Fixes at the docs. [by Filipe Estima]
* Minor changes at the autoconf/automake scripts.


6 ADVANCESCAN VERSION 1.2 2002/08
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* Added the advpng utility to compress the PNG files.
* Added the advmng utility to compress the MNG files.
* Added a Windows version.
* Other minor fixes.


7 ADVANCESCAN VERSION 1.1 2002/06
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* Fixed an infinite loop bug testing some small damaged zips.
* Removed some warning compiling with gcc 3.1.


8 ADVANCESCAN VERSION 1.0 2002/05
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* First public release.
* Fixed the compression percentage computation on big files.
* The unknow .zip files are now deleted if they contains only
  empty directories.
* Added the --pedantic option at the advzip utility. These
  tests are only done if requested.
* Renamed all the "unknow" options in "unknown".
* Fixed the reading of configuration file containing the \r char.
* Documentation fixes.
* Other minor fixes.


9 ADVANCESCAN VERSION 0.6-BETA 2002/05
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* Major revision.
* Renamed AdvanceSCAN.
* Updated to the last C++ standard.
* General cleanup of the code.
* Added the AdvanceDIFF and AdvanceZIP utility.


10 MAMESCAN VERSION 0.5 2001/08
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* Removed the options -fix, -cat, -collision.


11 MAMESCAN VERSION 0.4 2000/02
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* Added configure for msdos.


12 MAMESCAN VERSION 0.3
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* Minor revison.


13 MAMESCAN VERSION 0.2
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* Minor revison.


14 MAMESCAN VERSION 0.1 1999/07
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* First version.


15 MAMESCAN VERSION 0.0 1998/11
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* Posted in the MAME list the new listinfo command.
