Advance Projects

This site contains projects related to play Arcade and PC games with esoteric video hardware like TVs, Arcade Monitors, Fixed Frequencies Monitors and also for PC Monitors. 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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20-05-2008 Released AdvanceMENU v2.4.14 (only compilation fixes, no new features).

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.