• Prefer custom path to system path.

• Add test-case-source directory for better support of script generated test cases.

• Print command line for --verbose --setup-only.
• Add stdout-replace directive.
• Better integration with IDEs.

• Fix @SANDBOX@ substitution in file names on Windows.

• Fix preload test with newer glibc.

• Add --report-changes to show changes between last and current run.
• Add --delete-unknown-pattern to remove unknown files matching a pattern.
• Switch to nihtest.

• Allow copiers/comparators to handle directories.

• Add copiers.
• Add working-directory directive.
• Add read-only directive.

• Add set-modification-time directive.
• Fix inline stdin data.
• Improve error handling.
• Require python 3.9.

• Explicitly specify encoding for stdout of subcommands.

• Fix Windows compatibility.

• Improve environment variable handling.
• Reject config file with unknown sections or directives.

• Initial public release of Python version of nihtest.

• Support for configuration file and multiple sets.
• Overhaul command line options.
• Automatically update ROM DB.
• Speed up ROM sets with many files shared among many games.
• Improve parse error reporting, don’t create mamedb for dats with errors, fix inconsistencies in dat.
• Improve detector support.

• Read-only 7z support.
• Improve detector support.
• Bump mamedb version. All mame.db files need to be regenerated.
• Follow MAME in expecting disk images in subdirectories.
• Remove broken support for checking samples.
• Convert to C++17.

• add --stats to print stats about the state of the ROM set
• add support to only keep complete games in ROM set
• add --autofixdat to create fixdat with a name based on the dat name
• improve MAME (neogeo set) support
• fix up regression test suite
• switched to CMake build system

We have moved the remaining NiH repositories (cftp, cg, dccserver, img2eps, malint, NeoPop-SDL, ttftot42) from our own Mercurial server to GitHub: nih-at.

This makes it easier to contribute to our software. Feel free to use the issue tracker to report bugs, or submit fixes via pull requests. But please note that these tools are deprecated, so we still will not spend much effort on them.

hg.nih.at has been retired. If you have a Mercurial checkout, please check out a fresh copy from github:

git clone https://github.com/nih-at/$REPOSITORY.git

We have moved the ckmame repository from our own Mercurial server to GitHub: nih-at/ckmame.

This makes it easier to contribute to ckmame. Feel free to use the issue tracker to report bugs, or submit fixes via pull requests.

hg.nih.at/ckmame has been retired. If you have a Mercurial checkout, please check out a fresh copy of libzip from github:

git clone https://github.com/nih-at/ckmame.git

The web site has been redesigned for more clarity. Old links remain valid.

Also, it is now served via HTTPS.

libzip has moved to its own site at libzip.org. We’ve used the opportunity to completely overhaul the layout and structure of the site.

URLs pointing to nih.at/libzip will be redirected to the corresponding page on the new site.

News about libzip, including release announcements, will no longer show up on nih.at or its main RSS feed. Please check libzip.org/news or subscribe to its RSS feed at https://libzip.org/feed.xml.

• add support for on-disk caches to speed up consecutive runs
• support for ROMs in directories instead of in zip archives
• fix all fixable ROM errors automatically in one run
• speed up database operations by preparing statements only once
• remove torrentzip support (removed in libzip)

• cmake support (autoconf still supported)
• portability fixes

• MESS Software Lists support
• retire mkmamedb-xmame.sh, use mame -listxml | mkmamedb instead
• link/copy disks from extra if -j (--delete-found) isn’t specified
• ckmame: display current game on SIGINFO (Ctrl-T)
• removed ROMPATH support since mame uses a path in the config file nowadays

The web page has been improved and new features have been added:

The repository browser is now integrated into the website; mailing list archives have been added; and news, release announcements. and commits are available as RSS feeds.

• use SQLite3 instead of Berkeley DB
• optionally TorrentZip ROM set
• mkmamedb: add support for ROM Management Datafile format
• mkmamedb: add support to read dat files from zip archives
• mkmamedb: extract version and game description from listxml output
• ckmame: fix finding ROMs that need detectors from superfluous and extra
• change to 3-clause BSD license

The next version of ckmame will use SQLite 3 instead of Berkeley DB.

This avoids the portability nightmare of finding compatible header files and library names, which vary widely across systems.

It also simplifies ckmame’s database model, since we no longer need to maintain indices ourselves. This allows for easier manipulation of the database, which will be facilitated by the forthcoming database editing tool.

• add support for CMPro XML header skip detectors
• fix handling of zero byte ROMs
• dumpgame: brief option: no ROM/disk info
• mkmamedb: add support for reading Romcenter dat files
• mkmamedb: warn about multiple games with same name
• mkmamedb: create CMPro dat files
• mkmamedb: create mame db or CMPro dat file from zip archives
• ckmame: add option to keep files present in old ROM database

We switched from CVS to Mercurial, a distributed version control system.

anoncvs.nih.at has been replaced by hg.nih.at.

• clean up superfluous files and extra directories
• use additional DB listing files that exist elsewhere
• read games to check from file
• create DB from multiple dat files
• omit games matching shell glob patterns from database
• don’t open archives or disk images multiple times
• don’t accept disk images that need a parent
• move unknown files to directory unknown, not to garbage in ROM path

• fix all fixable errors in at most two runs
• rename disks
• support searching for files in additional directories
• detect faked ROMs (correct CRC, wrong MD5/SHA1)
• adapt mkmamedb-xmame.sh for MAME version numbers of 0.100 and above
• dropped support for inferring flags/status from CRC (old MAME versions)
• deprecated -u/-U command line options
• simplify ROM matching logic
• many new regression tests, causing
• various bug fixes

• Support for specifying resolution, size, orientation, and placement of image.
• Support for JPEG 2000 image format.
• Options to force recompression of image data and to ignore pixel order.
• Support for EXIF Orientation tag (auto-rotate images).
• Fix handling of interlaced GIF images
• LZW compression no longer optional (patent expired).

• libzip is distributed separately
• Support MAME/MESS -listxml output
• Adapt for MAME -listinfo output changes (honor flags baddump and nodump).
• Check disk images (chd files).
• Superfluous merged into ckmame. ckmame now by default reports extra files. Also works for samples.
• add file format version to database and don’t use incompatible database
• dumpgame: find game by checksum of one of its ROMs
• add script to create database by running xmame

• Load ROMs from zip archives.
• YUV overlay (hardware scaling).
• Config file (~/.neopop/neopoprc).
• Joystick support.
• HQ2x/HQ3x smoothing scalers.
• Sound and throttling improvements.
• Speed improvements.
• Configurable key and joystick bindings.
• Pause.
• 10 state save slots.
• On-screen display.

• Added “close” command; close particular connections.

• Added “info” command; shows current transfer states for all connections. Sending dccserver a SIGINFO (or SIGUSR1 on systems without SIGINFO) signal works too.

• Added proper timeout handling.

• Added poll replacement function from Brian M Clapper for building on Darwin.

• Show time taken by transfers and transfer rate.

• dccserver can now listen on multiple ports; just specify -p multiple times. Requested by Maik Zumstrull ≶Maik.Zumstrull@gmx.de>.

• Fixed dccsend program to work with mIRC.

• Add contrib/dccsend.pl from David Oftedal <david@start.no> for X-Chat users.

• First release.

• Add dccsend program to send files to a remote dccserver. Requested by Antti Aaltonen <antzu@iki.fi>.

• Try to handle it more gracefully when two or more clients want to write to the same file. Idea from Rudolf Polzer.

• Add lots of fflushes, some from Rudolf Polzer.

• Strip paths from file name (some weird clients send them). Requested by Athan <code@miggy.org>.

• Remove superfluous seteuid call. Noted by Athan <code@miggy.org>.

• Mention client ID/client name in most places. Based on patches from Rudolf Polzer <atfield@durchnull.de>.

• Add -e/-i options for easy embedding in irssi. Idea from from Rudolf Polzer <atfield@durchnull.de>.

• Add “quit” command to exit dccserver. Idea from Rudolf Polzer <atfield@durchnull.de>.

• Some minor improvements.

• MESS, Impact, Raine, and others based on the CMPro format now supported.
• Man page added.
• Bug fixes.

• Allow receiving more bytes than filesize; show a warning. Could be useful when sender doesn’t have the complete file when starting the dcc send, and in some other cases. Based on patches by Per von Zweigbergk <pvz@e.kth.se>.

• Install as setuid root; drop privileges as soon as possible, and chroot to current directory. Based on patches by Per von Zweigbergk <pvz@e.kth.se>.

• Debian package support, provided by Aubin Paul <debian@outlyer.org>.

• First public release.

• First public release.

• Preliminary support for sftp (requires ssh protocol version 2).
• Print estimated remaining time for down- and uploads.

• Add yenc support.
• Rename broken files to filename.broken.
• CTRL-C/SIGINT handling: write rc file and quit after completely decoding current file.
• Segfault fix (for postings of the type [422/7]).
• Ignore some uninteresting comment lines (no .desc file).
• Don’t assume last line before ‘end’ is not allowed to contain data in uu data.

• New command: rmdir.
• Don’t default to sending user name as anonymous password.
• Fix error detection in up/downloads.

• Fix compile problem on Red Hat 7.1.

• Display transfer rates.
• Detect stalled connections and abort after stall-timeout seconds.
• Fix ASCII mode uploads.
• If initial url is file, download before listing directory.
• Display progress while reading directories.
• Write proper URLs (encoding special chars, include user and port).
• Only ask for password if server wants one.
• Various bug fixes.

• Support for IPv6.
• Various bug fixes.

• Downloads: if size is unknown, use size from server response.
• mkdir: make directory on server (not really new, but I forgot to mention it).
• site: send site specific commands.
• Removed option emacs-status (which has been ignored anyway).
• Fixed bug with status lines on small terminals (less than 25 columns).

• If a a clone zip didn’t exist, it was not created.
• The DOS port now really can fix ROM sets.

• FIrst public release.

• Fixed bug in AFM generation (caused segfaults).

• Handle ISOLatin1 and PDFDoc encodings.
• New options: --name and --filename (print FontName / file name to stdout).
• Adjust font checksum in head table of included TrueType font.
• Omit duplicate entries for .notdef in CharStrings dictionary.

• First public release.