A WHDLoad-like place for classic programs

[Ral-Clan]

Yeah, in most cases productivity applications are system friendly and for the most part I don't see a need for a WHDLoad like installer for them.

But on the other hand there are some good apps that are just broken under later versions of the OS and RTG.  It might be nice to have something for this.  I'm thinking of VistaPro, Gold Disk PageSetter and ProDraw, etc.  Those either have problems under OS3.9 or won't run if RTG is enabled (even if they are not running an RTG screenmode).

So maybe a WHDLoad installer just for the broken apps.

Actually, now that I think of it - Lightwave can be installed in an RTG system if you know what you are doing, but some sort of automatic installer might help for most people who don't want to figure it out.  If the WHD Load installer could also apply patches to the applications to make them run under RTG/AHI (if patches were available) or something that would be great!

[Ral-Clan]

Lightwave 5 works just fine under RTG, only render preview (preview while rendering) is not available. I hope I remember right its over a decade ago I last used lightwave on Amiga.

Yes, I know that, and I said that in my post.  You can even trick it to render to a CyberGraphx RTG screen, but all of this takes some playing around and experimentation.

A WHDLoad type program for it to automatically configure things for an end user without the experimentation would be helpful.  If it patched the preview screen to render in RTG that would be even better.