Patcher * Patching Programs
The Patcher is a universal tool to modify files or disks. It is the prefered
tool for WHDLoad installations to create files or disk images from the original
disks with a very own disk format. To learn more about the Patcher you should
read its documentation, located in the patcher archive
provided with this package.
A short overwiew over the advantages compared to reading disks with
installation slaves:
- easy choice of source drive
- diskroutine cannot fail due too fast cpu
- works on escom-amigas with diskdrive-hardware'feature'
- multitasks while reading (it is even possible to install 2 games at the same
time if you own 2 disk drives)
- can display the track while reading (useful for bug reports) and imaging
problems (read error, disk full etc)
- can be debugged with a normal debugger
Disadvantages:
- initial ~6-8 h needed to get into it as programmer
- maybe bigger memory usage of ~1 MB, depending on the disk image (but for
people with fewer than 2 MB RAM hdinstalls arent that useful either)