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WHDLoad v16.8 Released
« on: August 20, 2007, 12:54:48 PM »
WHDLoad, the AmigaOS friendly Harddisk-Install package, version 16.8 has been released.

WHDLoad makes it possible to install quite a lot demos and games, which were originally designed to run only from floppy disks, to your harddisk.



New/Changes:

***  16.8 (19.08.2007)
   - fix:   the requester displayed when audio.device is already used defaults to 'ignore' now, so it works in combination with option NoReq/S (Horace)
   - fix:   the online help displayed when WHDLoad is called from the CLI without arguments has been fixed for the options Cache/S and DCache/S (Hexaae)
   - fix:   CLI args fixed to fault on too many arguments (Psygore)
   - chg:   the install template supports installing from disk images via diskimage.device, trackwarp.library and capsimage.device
   - chg:   kick31.s supports also the kickstart image from the A500/A600/A2000, with that it is possible to make Slaves using kick31 which are compatible to a 68000 CPU (Don Adan)
   - new:   WHDLoad itself disables the interrupts of Mediator boards now while running the installed program, this should solve problems like freezing and gfx/sound distortion on these boards, thanks to John Girvin and Elbox for providing the solution
   - chg:   WHDLoad now avoids opening the WorkBench screen after exiting,older versions have always opened the WB if no other screen was left open, requires at least v39
   - new:   WHDLoad now shows the task name on exceptions if there was a working amigaos running, it also shows segment name and offset if SegTracker was running (inside emulation of course)
   - new:   option NoMemReverse/S added to the global configuration (Ralf Stützer)
   - new:   catalan translation of documentation, thanks to Manel Beltran
   - new:   its now possible to use special rawkeys for the QuitKey/N option to let WHDLoad quit from a button press on the mouse/joystick/joypad
   - chg:   some changes to the kickemu, check history therein

Download (and register) at www.whdload.de
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Offline quenthal

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Re: WHDLoad v16.8 Released
« Reply #1 on: August 20, 2007, 07:27:21 PM »
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 - new: WHDLoad itself disables the interrupts of Mediator boards now while running the installed program, this should solve problems like freezing and gfx/sound distortion on these boards, thanks to John Girvin and Elbox for providing the solution


This is excellent! I've had so many work-arounds with multiple startup-sequences and everything to get around this, and now this is fixed completely!

I believe this makes many Mediator users happy, and they now have no reason not to register WHDLoad, one of the most important classic software nowadays!
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Re: WHDLoad v16.8 Released
« Reply #2 on: August 20, 2007, 07:53:35 PM »
Register this software now if you haven't done so already.
 

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Re: WHDLoad v16.8 Released
« Reply #3 on: August 20, 2007, 09:45:41 PM »
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- new: WHDLoad itself disables the interrupts of Mediator boards now while running the installed program, this should solve problems like freezing and gfx/sound distortion on these boards, thanks to John Girvin and Elbox for providing the solution

That's great news! Might it be possible for a similar fix to be developed for other network cards, like the X-Surf?

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Re: WHDLoad v16.8 Released
« Reply #4 on: August 21, 2007, 06:02:49 PM »
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That's great news! Might it be possible for a similar fix to be developed for other network cards, like the X-Surf?

That might be a different issue, I'm not sure. But it is a less severe problem since turning off networking software usually solves things - and you can automate that process with some scripting and the ExecuteStartup and ExecuteCleanup settings in S:WHDload.prefs
 

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Re: WHDLoad v16.8 Released
« Reply #5 on: August 22, 2007, 01:27:03 PM »
Hoya!

Great!!! I registered many moons ago and never regretted it!!!

Now, I will have to set up my Ammies when I move, re-install WHDLoad on the ones I have to (thankfully, I still have the key :-D) and PLAY!!!

WHD for ever!!!

Be funky

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Re: WHDLoad v16.8 Released
« Reply #6 on: October 18, 2007, 09:55:39 PM »
it's possible to install it on a A600 KS3.1 WB3.1 ?

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Re: WHDLoad v16.8 Released
« Reply #7 on: November 17, 2007, 07:39:05 PM »
I cant seem to use the ExpChip option?
I just get a config parsing error.
It's supposed to just stand on it's own line right? Like below:
(It's placed in s:whdload.prefs)


ExpChip


Thanks in advance