Phantom has said it all really.
WHDLoad is in *NO* way an emulator, More as such a "Patch" of sorts, to allow games that usually required booting from a disk (No Workbench loaded), to load from Hard Drive.
The games had Copy Protection custom format's on the disk and other such stuff, like manual protection that needed the Original Manual's.
What happens, is that WHDLOAD takes the ORIGINAL disk, saves off an "Image" of the disk to the HDD, and by the use of a Slave file (or Patch file), Fixes bugs, removes protections, and updates the game's code to make it more compatible with more modern CPU's like 060/PPC. Some games instead of having to load each level from disk again, are pre-loaded in to ram to speed up response times. Also, WhdLoad usually offers an "Escape" function to quit back to Workbench, instead of needing a Reset to Quit.
Whdload runs like a dream on my 060 (Cyberstorm MK II)
WHDLoad is one of the VERY FEW software's still under active development for Amiga's, it has its own VALUED niche in the Amiga. I had no hesitation in Registering WHDLoad, ensuring that Wepl (Bert) has more motivation to continue its development. (Some games require registration to run).
Go to the site and look up your favorite game, to see what enhancements it offers.
