CHD Manager 1.3.0

A calmer, simpler main window

• One list of discs, one line saying which settings will be used, and one Start button. That's the whole main screen.
• The five tabs moved into a Settings window (the More menu, or Change settings...). It has the conversion options, output folder, the suggested-settings explanation, and an About page.
• The log is hidden until you click Show log. It opens by itself if something fails.
• Less common actions (info, verify selected, light/dark theme) are in the More menu.
• The table no longer shows the Folder column. The header is slimmer and spacing is roomier.
• The version buttons at the bottom of the window (chdman 0.289 and CHD Manager 1.3.0) are now the update buttons: click one to check for an update, and it turns orange when one is waiting.
• Nothing about how discs are converted, extracted or verified changed.

Updating from 1.2.2 or older: the in-app updater will offer this version. If you update from 1.2.1 or older you may see a one-time "Failed to load Python DLL" error after the update; the update still applied, so just open CHD Manager again. Updates from 1.2.2 onward should restart cleanly.

Download CHD-Manager-1.3.0-win64.zip, unzip it anywhere, and run CHD Manager.exe. Windows 10/11, 64-bit. Python is not needed. Includes chdman 0.289.

Heads up: the exe is not code-signed, so Windows SmartScreen may show "unknown publisher" (choose More info, Run anyway), and some antivirus programs can be suspicious of packaged Python programs. You can also run CHD_Manager.pyw from source or build the exe yourself with build.ps1 (see the README).

SHA-256 of the zip: E15379FCDD42303FE54902A34E640D0D5E3CB3641C7D737E5D725A455987A808