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Title: WHDLoad Version 15.2 available
Post by: amigamad on April 23, 2003, 01:27:17 PM

whdload version 15.2 can now be found at the Whdload homepage (http://www.whdload.de/)

Title: Re: WHDLoad Version 15.2 available
Post by: xeron on April 23, 2003, 01:47:59 PM

Hooray! Thanks to the authors of WHDLoad an all the installers! You guys rock. I registered WHDLoad a couple of months back and its worth every penny.

Title: Re: WHDLoad Version 15.2 available
Post by: Paul_Gadd on April 23, 2003, 11:52:46 PM

Does this software still include a hidden trojan in main WHDLoad file?

Title: Re: WHDLoad Version 15.2 available
Post by: Mad-Matt on April 24, 2003, 12:29:22 AM

What Trojen ? Ive been testing beta versions and full releases with no such trojens.

Title: Re: WHDLoad Version 15.2 available
Post by: Paul_Gadd on April 24, 2003, 12:40:22 AM

The Trojan what kills and replaces Startup-sequence with a binary file what opens up a red guru with some anti piracy message, that is of course if you use a pirate keyfile, but nowadays no keyfile is released only a crack.

Title: Re: WHDLoad Version 15.2 available
Post by: Mad-Matt on April 24, 2003, 10:27:09 AM

I would hardly call an anti piracy measure a trojen ;)

as i recall all it does is rename ya startup sequence and put it in C: so all  is not lost. using a ligit version, youll never encounter this issue.

concidering the thousands of games installed, dont you think its worth the small registration fee ?

Title: Re: WHDLoad Version 15.2 available
Post by: lempkee on April 24, 2003, 12:36:33 PM

ermm ok, i havent seen this...but that is maybe because that i have been a regged user + contributor since pre 1999.

Title: Re: WHDLoad Version 15.2 available
Post by: Paul_Gadd on April 24, 2003, 01:34:12 PM

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concidering the thousands of games installed, dont you think its worth the small registration fee ?

Probably is worth the cash but i have never  wanted to use it,

I use and did register JST in the late nineties, at 5 quid it was a bargain, how anyone could have pirated software what was that cheap is strange.

Title: Re: WHDLoad Version 15.2 available
Post by: Minuous on April 24, 2003, 03:45:49 PM

I can confirm this for the older versions... :-(

I registered a while back though so someone else will have to test whether it still includes this mild trojan...

Title: Re: WHDLoad Version 15.2 available
Post by: amigamad on April 24, 2003, 09:43:24 PM

The one bit of shareware i registered was a fruit machine sim i had a demo on amiga mag and i had to get the full version at the cost of 5 pound it was better than anything i can find on pc .all my other shareware is unregistered im going to have to register for this bit of software it would save on wear of my floppy discs.

Title: Re: WHDLoad Version 15.2 available
Post by: Mad-Matt on April 25, 2003, 12:21:22 AM

Not only save on disk ware, but alot of the installers also contain game bug fixes and the occassinal speedups by allowing the games to work with caches.

I also baught the fruit machione sims, still waiting to get these WHD Installed. (I might attept to do this again). The ones im refuring to are the Mental Image ones. Winning Post, World Tour ect ...