05.Sep.2011
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Retro-Gaming: WHDLoad 17.0
With WHDLoad you can install games and scene demos on your harddrive which were published on disks. Additionally several incompatibilities with newer Amiga models were fixed. Changes since the last version:
- chg: documentation about Snoop feature now explains in detail which
cia registers are checked in which way (StingRay)
- chg: the install script template function P_AskDisk is additional
able to check for disks which contain a named file instead
only by volume name
- chg: the joypad emulation in kickemu 3.1 now supports a force
option to disable the auto sensing of lowlevel.library
- fix: kickfs.s now properly supports reading and writing to the same
file handle if IOCACHE is used
- new: support/detection of special HRTmon builtin WinUAE added
(monitor must be entered one time before WHDLoad can see it!)
- fix: when file for PreLoad was larger than the largest free memory
block this could lead to an DOS error #205 after all remaining
files have been preloaded, this bug has been introduced in
version 16.9, issue #2154
- chg: on option NoResInt/S WHDLoad checks and terminates if blitter
is active on entering via a resload function
- chg: trap hook now checks if vector is odd and aborts then
- chg: if option NoMMU/S is active WHDLoad now more correctly checks
the actual MMU setup and warns about translations of 0..3000
- chg: amount of disassembled code lines increased (Psygore)
- fix: output for disassembling of some instructions were corrected
by Psygore, (moveq #-x; cmp/add/and/move/bset/bchg/... #$nnxx;
bitfield with offset 0)
- fix: crashes on M-Tec 630 boards without FPU fitted caused by the
FPU detection inside WHDLoad fixed, board causes 'coprocessor
protocol violation's instead of 'line-f emulator', thanks to
Die BORG for lending the hardware
- chg: there are separate Resload versions for 00-20/30/40/60 now,
which enlarges the WHDLoad executable but saves memory at
runtime (overlayed)
- new: progress bar for Preload operation added, WHDLoad will
remember PreloadSize itself as ToolType if started from the
Workbench
- fix: cache clear in MMU configuration routine added, should fix
problems with issue #2094 and issue #2182 (Psygore)
- new: dutch translation of documentation, thanks to Harold van der
Waaij
- chg: resload_Relocate now accepts upto 512 hunks (Don Adan)
- chg: emulation of 'move sr,ea' in usermode on 68010+ is now also
working if flag WHDLF_EmulPriv is active, this fixes problems
with RoadwarsArcadia and FastBreakArcadia
- chg: support for Cloantos AmigaForever 2011 kickstart 1.2 and
3.1-a500/a1200 roms added (Jan Zahurancik)
- new: WHDLoad supports the compression file formats of CrunchMania
with the resload functions resload_Decrunch and resload_Load-
FileDecrunch (Psygore)
- chg: the way WHDLoad checks for keyboard strokes (QuitKey,
FreezeKey, ...) has been slightly modified, in earlier
versions it has checked for keydown strokes, now it only
reacts on keyup events; if the Slave checks itself for
keyboard events the installed program may still quit on
keydowns
- chg: the ws_keydebug entry in the Slave structure is now ignored,
the debug key must be explictly set via arguments
- fix: it's now possible to use QuitKey/DebugKey=0 (Psygore)
- chg: as long as the splash window is open pressing Esc will break
the Preload process and quit WHDLoad
- chg: pressing Space/Return/Enter will close the splash window and
start the installed program immediate after completion of
Preload
- new: in Expert/S mode the splash window now contains some buttons
to switch debugging related options of WHDLoad which gets
saved/deleted in the icon if started from the Workbench
- new: the Slave structure has been extended to allow configuration
of buttons to be displayed on the splash window to control
the ButtonWait/S and Custom1-5/K/N options
to be able to configure existing Slaves the option Config/K
has been added
- new: using the option ConfigDelay/K/N the time can be specified
howlong the splash window is displayed if there are buttons
on it (Config/Expert)
- chg: if SplashDelay/K/N is -1 a start button is added to the splash
window and the window remains open until pressed
- chg: the kickstart images will be searched also in the alternative
path WHDCOMMON: (M.C.Battilana)
The code for the support of the MMU of a 68040 does not completely work in this version because it is reworked to support all MMU-features. THe function "resload_Protect" should work but "Snoop" will crash the computer.
(cg) (Translation: dr)
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