WHDLoad 18.6

[Wepl]

Version 18.6 has been released now (http://whdload.de).
I hope it will be useful...

[fitzsteve]

Originally Posted by Wepl

Version 18.6 has been released now (http://whdload.de).
I hope it will be useful...

Thanks for continuing to update and support this fantastic software

[Amigajay]

Many thanks to everyone for their work!

[Predseda]

[ransom1122]

Thanks Wepl. No issues so far for day 1 use..

[AMike]

Thanks for your ongoing hard work...awesome!

[DamienD]

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

Posted here for others:

***  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)

[HOL2001]

Great news!
Many thanks!

[alexh]

Thanks to all WHDLoad developers and contributors now and in the past

[quantum8]

Looks like a huge update, thanks!

[nikosidis]

Thank you Whd-load is a big reason why people still use Amiga.

[Retro-Nerd]

Originally Posted by nikosidis

Thank you Whd-load is a big reason why people still use Amiga.

Has to be carved in stone!