Hi all,
Got a nice gift for you in the zone: cd32load.zip
A CD32-designed program which understands whdload slaves and loads its data from CD drive (goodbye OS flashes!!)
There are a lot of bugs & limitations but worth a shot for the ones which work (tested only on winuae)
Howto:
- install "cd32load" in C subdir of the CD
- copy your whdload installs in directories: make sure that no file is XPK packed!
- ATM only games with diskfiles have a chance to work, and avoid "data" subdirs as it does not work
Working games tested so far (and fully playable without extra keys):
- Assassin
- Pang
- Magic Pockets
- Addams Family
example: cd32load CD0:assassin/assassin.slave CUSTOM1=1
(ATM you need to hardcode CD0, but I'll fix this)
Features:
- CUSTOMx tooltypes supported, BUTTONWAIT, PAL, NTSC
- can run multi-disk 1Meg games without flashes (Assassin)
- simple quit key by CD32 reset
Bugs/todo:
- A LOT of games won't work. First, if JST whdload emulation does not work, it won't work here either
- implement Tony pad 2 keyboard routine to emulate keyboard from CD32 pad, with generic assignment of "pause" to P, "blue" to "space" and configurable.
- fix "DATA" tooltype which does not work
- better error handling
- ...
enjoy!