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Short:Automatically launch WHDLoad installs
Author:mart at degeneration.co.uk (Martin Atkins)
Uploader:mart degeneration co uk (Martin Atkins)
Type:util/misc
Version:1.0
Architecture:m68k-amigaos
Date:2020-04-04
Download:http://aminet.net/util/misc/whdautoload.lha - View contents
Readme:http://aminet.net/util/misc/whdautoload.readme
Downloads:703

This is a very thin wrapper around WHDLoad (which must also be installed) that
searches in the current directory for a Workbench icon whose default tool is
WHDLoad and then executes WHDLoad with that icon.

The author uses this in a small FFS hard disk image designed to be used as boot
media in an emulated DH0: in conjunction with a second disk image in DH1: that
contains a single WHDLoad in its root directory. The boot disk contains
WHDAutoload and WHDLoad in C:, kickstart images in DEVS:Kickstarts, and an
S:startup-sequence like the following:

    cd DH1:
    WHDAutoload

This is then just a convenience for launching WHDLoad installs easily in
emulators and FPGA-based reproductions of Amiga hardware, without first booting
into Workbench and launching manually from an icon. It expects to find WHDLoad
in C: or in some other directory listed in the current command path.

WHDAutoload is intended to work with the typical directory structure resulting
from an WHDLoad install, which has in its root directory a Workbench icon
whose default tool is WHDLoad and whose tooltypes include the local WHDLoad
configuration to use. This avoids the need to include any additional files
on a per-install basis, to allow constructing a generic boot disk that can
(in theory, at least) boot into any WHDLoad install.

Source code is included in case you want to tweak its behavior to suit other
uses.


Contents of util/misc/whdautoload.lha
 PERMSSN    UID  GID    PACKED    SIZE  RATIO METHOD CRC     STAMP          NAME
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[generic]                  617    1053  58.6% -lh5- f0a5 Apr  4  1980 WHDAutoload/LICENSE
[generic]                  793    1630  48.7% -lh5- 869c Apr  4  1980 WHDAutoload/README
[generic]                 2642    7880  33.5% -lh5- a7d3 Apr  4  1980 WHDAutoload/source/WHDAutoload.c
[generic]                 2443    4112  59.4% -lh5- 04da Apr  4  1980 WHDAutoload/WHDAutoload
---------- ----------- ------- ------- ------ ---------- ------------ -------------
 Total         4 files    6495   14675  44.3%            Apr  4 20:04

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