DISCUSSION
A: WHDLoad (www.whdload.de) is a software package that eases the installation and use of floppy-disk based games and demoscene productions on hard disk-based Amiga computers, including Amiga Forever. WHDLoad also supports the dynamic loading of the most appropriate Amiga system ROM ('kickemu') as part of the application startup process.
Starting from the 2011 version of Amiga Forever, the (unregistered) WHDLoad user package is preinstalled in the Workbench 3.X environment, preconfigured with the required ROM and RTB files. This means that within the Workbench 3.X environment WHDLoad titles can be run in the same way as on a normal Amiga computer. The WHDLoad-compatible file set is created in the Devs:Kickstarts directory of the Workbench 3.X configuration when the Plus Edition of Amiga Forever is installed. This location reflects the original location of disk-based ROMs on early A3000 models.
Additionally, the title authoring environment of Amiga Forever makes it possible to easily create a WHDLoad-based RP9 package that does not specifically depend on the Workbench 3.X environment. When you select 'WHDLoad' as the system model for the title configuration, a 'WHDCommon' volume is automatically mounted on playback. This contains the required ROM and RTB files, which are autodetected by WHDLoad.
The files installed by Amiga Forever include:
Some online resources also reference a 'kick33192.A500' file, which however was confirmed to be a typo (it should read 'kick33180.A500' - as of 2014, no 33.192 Amiga ROM is known to have ever been released).
The ROMs provided in Amiga Forever have been tested over time to be sufficient to run all Amiga games, demoscene productions, and other applications. Whenever this was verified to not be the case, ROMs were added.
Written by Christian Vogelgsang under the GNU Public License V2
This projects provides a romdisk.device you can place in an Amiga Kickstartor external ROM. It will autoboot a disk image that is stored next to thedevice directly in the ROM. You can either store a raw OFS /FFS disk image(ca. 500 KiB size) or a compressed image that holds up to a whole Amigadisk (ca. 880 KiB size). While the raw storage is ultra fast, the compressedimages allow you to deploy whole disks into ROM.
Additionally, a tool for modern systems is available that allows you tocreate those romdisk image easily from existing .adf disk images or froma directory of files.
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mkromdisk
to create image file from disk images or directoriestrackdisk.device
to have a verycompatible DF0 devicexdftool
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Amiga tool from RNC ProPack to use RNC Compressionlz4
tool from lz4.org to use LZ4 CompressionHere is a quick wrap-up on how to create and run a ROM with a romdisk: Blue iris keygen free download.
romtool
to convert a A1200 Cloanto OS 3.1to support 1 MiB ROMs:mkromdisk
tool to create a romdisk image from a diskimage. We use the Workbench 3.1 disk from Cloanto's Amiga Forever distributionhere (its called amiga-os-310-workbench.adf
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that contains theromdisk.device
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