Advance Projects

This site contains projects related to play Arcade and PC games with video hardware like TVs, Arcade monitors, PC monitors and LCD screens. They run in GNU/Linux, Mac OS X, DOS and Windows.

AdvanceMAME is a port of the MAME™ and MESS emulators for Arcade Monitors and TVs but also for normal PC Monitors.
AdvanceMENU is an emulator frontend with sound and animated previews of your games.
AdvanceCD is a bootable Live CD, DVD and USB disk able to play games on any PC without any installation.
AdvanceSCAN is a command line rom manager.
AdvanceCOMP is a collection of recompression utilities for your .ZIP archives, .PNG snapshots, .MNG video clips and .GZ files.
AdvanceBOOT is a collection of utilities, including makebootfat, to help the boot process.
AdvanceCAB is a collection of DOS and Windows utilities to use a PC with Arcade Monitors and TVs.

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11-01-2009 Released AdvanceMAME v0.106.1. No. I have NOT updated AdvanceMAME to the latest MAME. Only fixed some bugs and some improvements.
Released AdvanceMENU v2.5.0.
06-01-2009 Released AdvanceSCAN v1.14. It contains some important fixes to work with the recent MAME versions.

20-05-2008 Released AdvanceMENU v2.4.14.

05-01-2007 Hi guys! Yes, I'm still alive.
At present I've switched out from the PC and emulation hobby, so sorry, no more update of AdvanceMAME in the near future.
25-06-2006 Released AdvanceMAME v0.106.0.

19-02-2006 Released AdvanceMAME v0.104.0.

27-12-2005 Released AdvanceMENU v2.4.13.

11-12-2005 Released AdvanceMESS v0.102.0.1.

04-12-2005 Released AdvanceMAME v0.102.0.
Released AdvanceMESS v0.102.0.0.
Released AdvanceMENU v2.4.12.

31-10-2005 Released AdvanceCOMP v1.15.

16-10-2005 Released AdvanceMAME v0.101.0.
Released AdvanceMENU v2.4.11.

15-10-2005 The CrashTest MNG+MP3 collection is now available at MAMEICONS.

09-10-2005 Released AdvanceMAME v0.100.0.

03-09-2005 Released AdvanceMESS v0.99.0.0.

08-08-2005 Released AdvanceMAME v0.99.0.

05-06-2005 Released AdvanceMAME v0.97.0.
Released AdvanceMENU v2.4.10.

11-05-2005 Released AdvanceMAME v0.96.0.
Released AdvanceMESS v0.96.0.0.
Released AdvanceMENU v2.4.9.
Released AdvanceCD v2.6.2.

03-04-2005 Released AdvanceMAME v0.95.0.
Released AdvanceMESS v0.95.0.0.
Released AdvanceMENU v2.4.8.

21-03-2005 Released AdvanceMAME v0.94.0.
Released AdvanceMESS v0.94.0.0.
Released AdvanceMENU v2.4.7.

17-03-2005 Released makebootfat v1.4.

25-02-2005 Released AdvanceCD v2.6.1.

22-02-2005 Released AdvanceCD v2.6.0.
Released AdvanceMAME v0.92.1.
Released AdvanceCOMP v1.14.

14-02-2005 Released AdvanceMESS v0.92.0.0.

13-02-2005 Released AdvanceMAME v0.92.0.
Released AdvanceMENU v2.4.6.

06-01-2005 Released AdvanceMAME v0.90.0.
Released AdvanceMENU v2.4.5.

29-12-2004 Opened the Forums.
27-12-2004 Released AdvanceCD v2.5.0.

08-12-2004 Released AdvanceMENU v2.4.4.

06-12-2004 Released AdvanceMAME v0.89.0.
Released AdvanceMESS v0.89.0.0.
Released AdvanceMENU v2.4.3.

04-12-2004 Released AdvanceSCAN v1.13.

02-11-2004 Released AdvanceMAME v0.88.0.
Released AdvanceMESS v0.88.0.0.
Released AdvanceMENU v2.4.2.
Released AdvanceSCAN v1.12.
Released AdvanceCOMP v1.13.

22-09-2004 Released AdvanceMAME v0.87.0.
Released AdvanceMENU v2.4.1.
Released AdvanceSCAN v1.11.
Released AdvanceCOMP v1.12.

1-09-2004 Released AdvanceMAME v0.86.0.
Released AdvanceMESS v0.86.0.0.
Check the new snapshots.

23-08-2004 Released AdvanceMAME v0.85.0.
Released AdvanceMESS v0.85.0.0.
Released AdvanceMENU v2.3.8.
Released AdvanceSCAN v1.10.

26-07-2004 Released AdvanceMAME v0.84.0.
Released AdvanceMENU v2.3.7.
Released AdvanceCOMP v1.11.
Released AdvanceSCAN v1.9.

01-07-2004 Released AdvanceMAME v0.83.1.
Released AdvanceMESS v0.83.0.1.
Released AdvanceMENU v2.3.6.