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jotd · 19 May 2017, 23:33

whdload installs also support games with official HD installs, for various reasons

- remove password protection (and others, like encryption to prevent from copying/archiving the installed game somewhere else)
- quit to the OS
- kickstart agnostic
- extra features, trainers, bugfixes...

So even when the game has a HD install, always prefer a whdload installed game, unless you don't have enough memory for full HD loading.

Those "assign" scripts are interesting for some CD32 releases where whdload cannot help or with a lot of flashing (and CD32load hardly helps because performance is bad on kickemu games with lots of small files for instance). But I suppose that earok & amigajay got that covered.

19 May 2017, 23:33	#11
jotd This cat is no more Join Date: Dec 2004 Location: FRANCE Age: 52 Posts: 8,164	whdload installs also support games with official HD installs, for various reasons - remove password protection (and others, like encryption to prevent from copying/archiving the installed game somewhere else) - quit to the OS - kickstart agnostic - extra features, trainers, bugfixes... So even when the game has a HD install, always prefer a whdload installed game, unless you don't have enough memory for full HD loading. Those "assign" scripts are interesting for some CD32 releases where whdload cannot help or with a lot of flashing (and CD32load hardly helps because performance is bad on kickemu games with lots of small files for instance). But I suppose that earok & amigajay got that covered.