English Amiga Board - View Single Post - Loading WHDLoad games by decompressing on the fly

kipper2k · 17 July 2020, 16:28

Hi All, not sure if this is doable. I am thinking about some of the games in the WHDload games library that can sometimes have 100's of small files. The obvious annoyance with this is the time it takes to copy these files onto a CF/HDD etc even in Winuae.

Qusetion is, could WHDload have a User option to run a compressed game file decompressing on the fly. I understand that this would probably need an expanded/upgraded Amiga. but part of the benefits would be reduced HDD space and file copying time?

17 July 2020, 16:28	#1
kipper2k Registered User Join Date: Sep 2006 Location: Thunder Bay, Canada Posts: 4,323	Loading WHDLoad games by decompressing on the fly Hi All, not sure if this is doable. I am thinking about some of the games in the WHDload games library that can sometimes have 100's of small files. The obvious annoyance with this is the time it takes to copy these files onto a CF/HDD etc even in Winuae. Qusetion is, could WHDload have a User option to run a compressed game file decompressing on the fly. I understand that this would probably need an expanded/upgraded Amiga. but part of the benefits would be reduced HDD space and file copying time?