A WHDLoad Slave for the Game Hoi

[Team_Hoi]

Originally Posted by StingRay

The patch for Hoi is now available. Have fun.

Nice work, thanks!

Being a WHDLoad nitwit, how would I get the patch to work in an Amiga emulator? Do you need to run this patch and then input ADF files of the original Hoi disks?

[Aardvark]

Originally Posted by Team_Hoi

Nice work, thanks!

Being a WHDLoad nitwit, how would I get the patch to work in an Amiga emulator? Do you need to run this patch and then input ADF files of the original Hoi disks?

Easiest way is to follow WHDLoad's documentation to install WHDLoad http://whdload.de/docs/en/index.html, then run the game patch installer to install the game from disks. ADF images usually will not work, the disks must be original copies which uses IPF format. These can be found on Turran FTP in "SPS" directory http://ftp2.grandis.nu/turran/FTP/TOSEC/Games/
Also emulators needs CAPS.dll file from SPS in order to mount IPF images. http://www.softpres.org/download

Interesting how much work this patch needed, because the Hoi AGA Remix is completely system friendly and runs even on 68060.

[StingRay]

Originally Posted by Team_Hoi

Nice work, thanks!

Being a WHDLoad nitwit, how would I get the patch to work in an Amiga emulator? Do you need to run this patch and then input ADF files of the original Hoi disks?

As Aardvark already wrote, you need to install the game with the supplied installer in the Hoi patch package. The data from the original Hoi disks will then be saved (the RawDIC imager is used for this) and everything needed to play the game from HD will be copied to the chosen directory. Or you can wait until someone provides a preinstalled version, usually Retroplay does that quite quickly when a new patch has been released.

Originally Posted by Aardvark

Interesting how much work this patch needed, because the Hoi AGA Remix is completely system friendly and runs even on 68060.

Only the menu is system-friendly, the level code is still using direct hardware access just like in the original Hoi game.

[Team_Hoi]

Thanks a lot for the info. Going to try this soon.

And yeah, Hoi was about as far from being system-compliant as possible, haha. I remember Hoi's coder once managed to assemble a version that turned out to only work on his particular A500.

[StingRay]

Originally Posted by Team_Hoi

I remember Hoi's coder once managed to assemble a version that turned out to only work on his particular A500.

I'm not surprised, the code is quite dirty actually.

[Team_Hoi]

Hahaha!