22.Dec.2021
Amigatronics
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Retro gaming: WHDLoad 18.7
Using WHDLoad, you can install games, scene demos and intros from cracking groups to your harddisk that were only working from floppy disks previously. Version 18.7 provides the following changes:
- new: if a kickstart is requested by the Slave (ws_kickname) WHDLoad
provides the current default keymap as a virtual file called
'WHDLoad.keymap'
kickemu kick13.s and kick31.s got a new option called
SETKEYBOARD which loads and activates the 'WHDLoad.keymap'
- fix: avoid a possible crash if no kickstart image could be found
- chg: the check for a read-only filesystem to ignore write
operations now checks the first data directory instead the
current directory of WHDLoad
- new: sources/whdload/lowlevel.s has been added to be used with
kickemu, it is based on the OS3.1 lowlevel.library and provides
a way to avoid the disk based library and save some memory, the
kickemu option INIT_LOWLEVEL uses it now instead loading the
disk based library
- fix: corrected the key repeat fix in kick31.s
- chg: resload_ListFiles no longer requires a switch to the OS if
Preload was able to cache all files by using the file cache to
fill the buffer with filenames
- new: support for virtual filesystem plugins (VFS) added,
if one of the Data/K objects specified is not a directory but
a file WHDLoad will attempt to load PROGDIR:WHDLoad.VFS and
uses this interface to load data for such data objects, the
VFS-ABI/API is described in "include/whdvfs.i", a VFS
implementation which currently supports lha and zip-archives
can be obtained from http://github.com/temisu/WHDLoadArchiveFS
Thanks a lot to Teemu Suutari for his great work!
VFS objects are always read-only for WHDLoad, so either use
SavePath/K or a first data directory which isn't VFS to
allow WHDLoad to save something
- fix: cursor down in the CLI usage message is working again in the
standard AmigaShell (issue #5146)
- chg: DIC 1.2: if a track has a read error and option Skip is active
and the device is controlled by trackdisk.devices, DIC
switches to sector reads now to be able to read more good data
in case not all sectors on this track are unreadable
- chg: WHDLoad now returns with an error code = 5 if the Preload
operation has been canceled by pressing the Esc key while
the splash window is open (issue #5171)
- chg: a new option NoWriteInfo/N has been added as local and global
option, if set WHDLoad will not update/write any .info
files (issue #5153)
- chg: WHDLoad now resets custom.serper on exit to stop a possible
MIDI/MT32 playback via the serial line (JOTD)
- new: option WriteCache/S added to overwrite global option
NoWriteCache/S (issue #5263)
- new: WHDLoad is now able to cache also write operations to new
created files or existing files which grow in size. For that
the option PreLoad must be active and there must be enough
memory available to preload all files. WHDLoad will then
allocate the largest free memory block remaining and use this
memory to dynamically cache new files or growing existing
files. The cached files are written to disk on WHDLoad exit.
- new: kick31.asm can be enabled to activate internal resident
command WHDCtrl which supports to quit WHDLoad ATM
(dr)
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