Time for an update.
I'm actively working on the next version of HstWB Installer on a day to day basis and thought I was close to a release a few weeks ago... but then feature creep and bug fixing happened.
Here's an overview of new features:
- Reduced Windows start menu entries, so there is only 1: HstWB Installer. This will start a launcher.
- A new launcher is introduced to give better and simplified access to HstWB Installer and it's functions, help and support files. Arrow keys and return allows easy and fast navigation in the launcher.
- Added a Topaz truetype font for both launcher and powershell windows to give HstWB Installer a more Amiga like look and feel.
- Updated HstWB Installer to use both FS-UAE and WinUAE. A configure emulator menu will list auto-detected emulators and an option to select custom emulator .exe file, if HstWB Installer doesn't detect emulators as default locations.
- Removed installation of Boing Bags 3 & 4 through HstWB Installer. It's still possible to manually install Boing Bags 3 & 4 without HstWB Installer, if these are preferred.
- Added user package installation as a simple way of installing files like EAB WHDLoad Packs. This works in both install and self install mode, where self install mode requires an UAE emulator with USERPACKAGESDIR directory added containing a directory per user package. It's only requires a "_installdir" in each user package directory to notify HstWB Installer where the user package should be installed, eg. it could contain "DH1:WHDLoad/Games".
- Lot of small improvements and bug fixes.
The only new feature left now is getting package installation to automatically add package dependencies, eg. when adding HstWB package it will also add BetterWB package.
I have added a few teaser screenshots, so you can see what some of the new features look like.