FireStarter FX

The cool yet powerful, pure Cocoa, 
Mac OS X only multi-format burning application.

FireStarter is a pure Cocoa, Mac OS X only burning application which will allow you to duplicate and burn all kind of CDs (even those that other Mac OS X applications won't), burn VCDs and SVCDs, and have access to unique features such as overburning and CDDB access.

New features in FireStarter FX-1.0b7
Unfortunately, I didn't had the time to do the source clean up and improvements I was planning to do for the final release. This that the beta 7 is now released, and still not a final 1.0. All my apologies for all the people who sent me feature requests, support questions or bug reports and who didn't get any reply. Do not worry, I read them all, but I just didn't had the time to reply to all of you. But now that my exams are over, I'll be able to get back to work on FireStarter and make the changes I have planed for a long time. So please, support FireStarter and keep it free by making donations :
 http://store.eSellerate.net/s.asp?s=STR7704397588

* Updated the core tools to their latest versions. 
* Hopefully a lot more drives should now be supported
* Extended the beta period time until 15 January 2005, which will more likely give me the time to release a clean version. I'm targetting the new version for the beginning of September.

New features in FireStarter FX-1.0b6

Hopefully, this is the last beta before version 1.0.0 of FireStarter FX. Unfortunately, this doesn't mean that are isn't a lot of room left for improvements and for a lot of cool features that may integrated in the near feature to FireStarter FX. So please, support FireStarter and keep it free by making donations :
 http://store.eSellerate.net/s.asp?s=STR7704397588

* Updated the core tools to their latest version.

* Finally fixed a bug which was leading FireStarter to "unexpectedly quit" on many Macs when trying to create an iso or bin/cue image from a folder

* Fixed a bug were Macs with several drives may have been not properly handled

* Fixed a bug which could lead the "FireStarter eraser" to fail with some burners

* Fixed a bug were drag'n'drop of files with correct extensions would have been rejected

* Improved drag'n'drop behaviour of the "burn image to cd" tab

* Works with SuperDrive Pioneer DVR-104 and DVR-106 with the "generic-mmc" driver. If it works with your SuperDrive (other than the DVR-104 and 106) please send me an email so I can create a compatibility list. PLEASE PREFER CREATING AND BURNING ISOs INSTEAD OF BIN/CUE FILES.

* IF YOU EXPERIENCES ISSUES WITH THIS VERSION, TRY TRASHING THE PREFERENCE FILE which is located in your home/Library/Preferences/ and is named : com.projectomega.firestarter.plist

* Not tested against Jaguar

* Extended beta period. b6 will expire on the 15th of June 2004. 

New features in FireStarter FX-1.0b5b

* Extended beta period. b5 will run until the 15th of January 2004.

New features in FireStarter FX-1.0b5a

* Had introduced a bug due to an issue with Xcode. Now fixed.

New features in FireStarter FX-1.0b5

* Extended beta period. b5 will run until the 31st of September 2003.

* Reduced the app size from 9MB to less than 6MB (thank you Aubin for the tip).

* Moved to Xcode which will allow FireStarter to be seamlessly ported to Panther.

* Due to hard drive crash and very (I mean it, very) limited available time, nothing really hot in this release. I know many of you are expecting a lot from FireStarter FX, and I must tell you that I really appreciate all the support emails I get. I have a lot of ideas and I expect to integrate lots of nice (and often requested) features to FireStarter FX but this may have to delayed until late September or October. Thanks for your patience. 

New features in FireStarter FX-1.0b4

* Few internal bug fixes

* New Localizations

New features in FireStarter FX-1.0b3

* "Force" option which will fortunately let people who have a burner which is not recognized by Mac OS X to burn CDs again !

* Reader devices recognition fully rewritten. Now supports all the readers available on the computer.

* German localization

* French localization

* fixed a bug which "prevented Media" info not to display properly

* fixed a bug which prevented some devices from copying discs on the hard drive

* fixed a bug which prevented made the "burn" button behave like a 'dead' button

* better CD-Text support (available with generic-mmc, generic-mmc and data-burning)

* fixed several disc-image related bugs

* FireStarter FX is now donation-ware:
Developing, supporting and improving FireStarter FX takes considerable amounts of time. This really is a lot of work. So, if you like FireStarter FX and use it, please support it by making donations (you can now make $10 to $35 donations):
http://store.eSellerate.net/s.asp?s=STR7704397588
You can also send bank checks in US dollars or Euros to Pejvan, who is the responsible of the Project:Omega organization. If you prefer sending bank checks directly to him, please drop him an email (pejvan@projectomega.org) and he will send you his postal address.

Thanks for your support!

New features in FireStarterFX-1.0b2:

* FireStarter now automatically detect your burners and all the associated informations
* Added support for data-burning
* Added support for creation of cue/bin files and iso files from folder
* Added support for burning .iso files
* Added support of drag-&-drop
* Added support for Mac OS X media eraser
* User interface has improved a lot, and is now a lot simpler
* Few fun stuff
* Several bugs squashed
* Optimizations, FireStarter FX should suck less processing time
* FireStarter FX is now donation-ware:
Developing, supporting and improving FireStarter FX takes considerable amounts of time. This really is a lot of work. So, if you like FireStarter FX and use it, please support it by making donations (you can now make $10 to $35 donations):
http://store.eSellerate.net/s.asp?s=STR7704397588
You can also send bank checks in US dollars or Euros to Pejvan, who is the responsible of the Project:Omega organization. If you prefer sending bank checks directly to him, please drop him an email (pejvan@projectomega.org) and he will send you his postal address.

Known issues and limitations:

* iso image session burning seems broken because of a bug in cdrecord. Burning iso sessions resulted in unusable CD-Rs on both of my drives. Please use with care, and let me know if you are successful with session burning.
* Toc files must not be of type "CD_ROM" to be session-burnable. You have to manually edit them and change them to "CD_ROM_XA"
* FireStarter FX doesn't determine automatically the driver to use when extracting a CD to the hard-drive or when burning bin/cue/toc files. You must select a driver in the Preferences for your device. The following drivers should work with 99% of the burners:
generic-mmc and generic-mmc-raw. If you experience issues with one of them, try the other. For a list of known supported drives and drivers, please take a look at the following link: http://cdrdao.sourceforge.net/drives.html and look for your drive. If your drive works but is not listed, please fill in the form, so we know about supported drives.

* There are a few cases were selecting the wrong driver for bin/cue burning doesn't generate an error, but buns the CD with errors. Please check the right driver for your usage.

* Minimizing the "Mac OS X eraser" and "Mac OS X data burner" windows results in windows that are stuck in the Dock. This is a known issue of Mac OS X. In order to get the window out of the Dock, press "apple-alt-esc" keys, and when the force-quit window appears, your stuck window gets out of the Dock. You can then cancel the "force-quit" window with the "esc" key.

* some people have issues overburning more than 750 MB

* please note that there is little I can do if your drive is not supported for bin/cue or iso burning, while there's a very little chance to be so