English Amiga Board - WHDLoad 18.6

I was about to ask what are the changes but read the "History.txt" in the archive ;)

Posted here for others:
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***  18.6 (22.09.2020)

        - new:        WHDLoad now disables interrupts of graphics cards under

                the Picasso96 software. This should solve problems with

                Spectrum cards and newer P96 releases (issue #2598). Thanks

                to Thomas Richter for providing useful information.

        - upd:        Manual translations are in sync again for catalan and czech.

        - new:        Kickemu kick31.s can be instructed to load/init the custom

                nonvolatile.s via option INIT_NONVOLATILE.

        - fix:        nonvolatile.s now correctly works on searching nonexistent

                items in a existing nvram file

        - chg:        In kickemu kick13.s a waitblit has been added to avoid

                problems with the gfx.Text patch (Psygore).

        - chg:        The provided source keyboard.s now uses cia timers instead the

                raster beam for the keyboard acknowledge delay.

        - fix:        Access faults of size word to address -1 and of size long to

                addresses -3..-1 are now reliable detected and reported.

                In earlier releases: on 68030: when ExpMem was used these were

                undetected, on 68040: when ExpMem was used and vector base was

                not write protected (e.g. Freezer detected, Snoop*,

                resload_Protect        used) these were undetected, if vector base

                was protected a        fault inside WHDLoad was reported, on 68060:

                these were always correctly reported

        - chg:        To reduce the likelihood that resload functions get

                interrupted by other calls to resload functions, some resload

                functions which usually take not much execution time, have

                been changed to be not interruptible anymore.

                The following resload functions have been changed that way:

                Abort, SetCACR, FlushCache, Control, Protect#?, SetCPU,

                GetCustom, VSNPrintF and Log.

                In general the option NoResInt/S can be used to avoid problems

                with interrupted resload calls at the cost of possible sound/

                graphics distortions when interrupts are disabled for a longer

                time.

        - chg:        The provided source sources/whdload/savegame.s is now fully

                pc-relative. It contains also additional fixes for interrupt

                acknowledge and AGA compatibility (JOTD/ross).

        - chg:        The inplace decruncher for the old RNC1 format has been

                improved to support files which need a larger distance

                (Heimdall/JOTD).

        - chg:        The kick31.s now prefers a A600 kickstart image if NO68020 is

                set. It fails now if there is only a 68000/010 and a

                A1200/A4000 kickstart image was loaded (JOTD).

        - fix:        When using kickfs.s the dos.library function

                Open(MODE_READWRITE) now performs correctly on Kickstart 3.1

                by creating a non-existent file. On Kickstart 1.3 the old

                behavior remains to not create a file.

        - chg:        If a call to resload_Examine is attempted without the flag

                WHDLF_Examine has been set in the Slave structure WHDLoad now

                terminates with an appropriate error message (JOTD).

        - chg:        The kickemu kick12.s, kick13.s and kick31.s has been modified

                to automatically set the Slave flag WHDLF_Examine if HDINIT is

                set (JOTD).

        - chg:        When using resload_Relocate with tags CHIPPTR/FASTPTR and the

                specified chip/fast memory location would result in an

                overlapping with base executable WHDLoad now gives a useful

                error message (JOTD).

        - fix:        Instead of waiting for a long video frame WHDLoad now forces a

                long frame before starting the Slave. This fixes startup

                problems on Kickstart 3.0 and an interlace video mode

                (issue #4798).

        - chg:        MMU-table creation has been reworked. It is now faster and

                uses less memory.

        - new:        Support for ACA-freezer added.

        - chg:        if "*" is specified for the Slave to load WHDLoad searchs the

                current directory for a file with the pattern "#?.slave" and

                will use the first file matching (Toni Wilen)