WHDLoad 18.9 released

[TCD]

A new version of WHDLoad has been released. It can be downloaded from the WHDLoad main page as usual.

Here are the changes:

*** 18.9 (01.05.2023)
- fix: fixed possible race condition when using XPK compressed files
and multiple data directories, if a compressed file with the
same name was contained in two consecutive data dirs and was
the last compressed in the first dir and the first compressed
one in the subsequent dir it was preloaded two times and the
second one got visible to the installed program, this has been
corrected now
- fix: the Slave structure flag EmulDivZero now also works on 68010,
in previous version it always faulted (missing support for
different stack frame format on the 68010)
- fix: DIC option SkipTrack was broken in version 1.2, now fixed with
version 1.3 (CFou!)
- new: new local option ExecuteArgs to supply arguments to the
scripts/programs called via the ExecuteCleanup/Startup/...
options, using this it becomes possible to control the
behavior of the scripts in single install without the need to
have many different Execute* scripts
- new: if started from Workbench WHDLoad now opens a window
CON:////WHDLoad .../AUTO/CLOSE/WAIT for the ExecuteCleanup and
ExecuteStartup scripts which opens if there is any output
- chg: option Cache/S can also be specified in the global
configuration file (Tomaz)
- new: the kick13 emulation now also supports the WHDCtrl resident
command which can be used to quit WHDLoad, because the boot
CLI under 1.3 does not run resident commands a patch has been
implemented to add this feature (Hexaae)
- fix: now resload_ListFiles is able to list the install root
directory also when listing from cached files, this was broken
since the introduction of the feature to list cached files in
release 18.7, which broke for example Gauntlet3 (issue #6077)
- fix: depending on the already used chip memory WHDLoad has
corrupted read/write data (all io related Resload functions),
if the file cache feature wasn't used (NoWriteCache or
NoFileCache set), this may have corrupted saved data! this bug
has been introduced in WHDLoad release 18.4, thanks to DJ Mike
for reporting/testing (issue #6078)
- chg: the options ExecutePostDisk and ExecutePreDisk are now working
as intended/documented, previously they were called only once
(issue #5880)
- fix: RawDIC has been updated to version 6.1 which fixes
compatibility with imager slaves which used DoubleInc and one
track too much in the tracklist (e.g. Beast)
- fix: made EmulChk working on 68010 (issue #6137)

[Superman]

Installed on my A1200, A600 and A500 mini and works with no issues.

[Boing-Ball]

Good work all! Will download and update my 18.8 soon! Many thanks for your efforts!

[klx300r]

Thanks for the update

[Tarzin]

Thanks a lot for this update!
Always happy to see new release :-)

[alexh]

Thanks to WEPL and all the other contributors

[dlfrsilver]

Ok, i have updated to whdload 18.9, and all the games are now crashing on my A1230 (with blizzard).

i have no clue on what can be wrong......

[Philyon]

I have a 1230IV with 32Mb and it works fine to me.

[Boing-Ball]

Originally Posted by dlfrsilver

Ok, i have updated to whdload 18.9, and all the games are now crashing on my A1230 (with blizzard).

i have no clue on what can be wrong......

I’ve upgraded to 18.9 from 18.8. What is interesting is that when using iGame above V2.0 and choosing a game to load it freezes up. If running the slave directly from the actual game folder it works no problem at all.

So did a bit of experimenting. I’m running this using a towered Mediator setup (Re-Amiga board, Blizzard PPC/060 256MB RAM etc..) with both NIC (Roadshow) & Spider-II USB (Posiedon V4.5) setup. As usual I’ve got both Whdload startup and cleanup to stop and then restart Network and USB stack as if I don’t the games start but with a black screen (This is well documented on here).

My only conclusion, is there is a conflict somewhere with anything iGame over V2.0. Even tried the latest release of Aminet. Same results.

Therefore my fix is to stay on V2.0 of iGame.

Is this the same issue you are seeing? Or does the Games start and then crash when playing? If so any error messages?

[dlfrsilver]

I don't use Igame on my a1200.

My problem is the following : any slave i launch simply crash my A1200.

I'm unable to trace where the bug is.

[dlfrsilver]

Originally Posted by Philyon

I have a 1230IV with 32Mb and it works fine to me.

Which workbench do you use ?

[dlfrsilver]

EDIT : Solved problem found. If no internet access, the whdload.prefs file must have the nonetwork command activated, otherwise whdload tries to access and fails.

[Torti-the-Smurf]

Games won´t load anymore withLazybench with the new version, really weird.

I wrote here about it.....
https://eab.abime.net/showthread.php?t=110793

[mfilos]

Just tried it on my OS3.2.2.1 installation (with LazyBench config copied from ClassicWB and altered accordingly) and it works just fine.
I'm on 18.9 as well

[Torti-the-Smurf]

Thanks for the Infos mfilos

I found the Reason why it no longer work with the newest WHDLoad version. (well, kinda)

You see, i use a modified Lazybench that doesn´t rescan the Folders when started.
(Thanks to PeterK)

With the normal (unmodified) Lazybench the games start with the new Whdload version.

Odd. I stick to my modified Lazybench because it´ s faster