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I accidently removed the data folder which stopped the controller working in the carousel on THEA500 Mini, fixed now... :)

Updates added, bug fixes, I changed some things in it like renamed folders.

ADF-Disks folder on the root of the PCUAE USB Drive is now connected to the ADF folder in THEA500-USB-MENU so you will see the ADF files in the ADF-Disks folder in the ADF folder in the USB Media Menu in the carousel now so can load them from there now too and in ADF Mode as well.

If you have not installed PCUAE for a while it would be a good idea to clear everything for the USB Drive because some folder names have change and this version does not remove any files so back up your carousel games first before deleting everything on it.

PCUAE Install was missing the folder THEC64-CAROUSEL-GAMES, its been added now, it needs to be on the PCUAE USB Drive so PCUAE Manager copied the Gamelist views to that folder otherwise PCUAE Manager makes the old folder PCUAE USB Drive:/Carousel_Games/Games folder, that needs changing so if the folders is not there PCUAE Manager makes PCUAE USB Drive:/THEC64-CAROUSEL-GAMESfolder not the old folder because when you put the USB Drive back in the machine it will sayIt can not find Favories_1 Gamelist folder(Gamelist view)`.

You can now use PCUAE Main Version like a update and use it to go over the top of PCUAE All In One Version to update it, PCUAE Main Version does not delete any files now from the USB Drive so if you want a clean install first reformat the USB Drive in Windows 10/11, it will select FAT32 if the drive is already formatted with FAT32.... :) do not know why Windows does not offer it anyway, we still use drive that use the file system, its because Win10 /11 are both NT OSes and it was removed in Win2000/XP and because they want you to use NTFS it more secure and your files do not get corrupted.

Been working on the the dirty bit on the drive this week and when you power of the machines they go into box standby, so into standby mode and it never releases the drive so never ejects it or unmounts itso if you pull it out it makes a dirty bit on the drive the dirty is made by the carousel when it mounts it and reads it from it USB Media Menu and then you remove it without it unmounting it or ejecting it.

TIP: Never take out the drive when the machine is on, always take it out after it have shutdown and gone to standby mode, because it never eject it or unmounts it itself, it needs too but the only way to remove the dirty bit is using fsck.fat and scanning it so it fixes errors on the drive and removes the dirty bit mark, but on THEA500 after scanning the USB Drive it crashes the kernel and does two call traces like when it crashes on Amiberryv3, I find the kernel very weird in THEA500 Mini.

Make sure you have a backup of PCUAE and how its setup on the PCUAE USB Drive now because you never know when your files will become corrupted on the USB drive because of problem of the dirt bit on the USB Drive.
Its TheCarousel Manhattan adding the dirty bit to the USB Drive.

Yep you can use the internet with it now on THEA500 Mini, you can now as well use WinSCP with it so can transfer files between the PC and the PCUAE USB Drive without needing to remove it now too, SCP server runs automatically as part of PCUAE Network Mode, it works on THEC64 and THEA500.

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