WHDLoad, the AmigaOS friendly Harddisk-Install package

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Welcome to the Home Page of WHDLoad, the AmigaOS friendly Harddisk-Install package. WHDLoad makes it possible to install quite a lot demos and games, which were originally designed to run only from floppy disks, to your harddisk.

Download the latest WHDLoad package (old/beta versions, misc stuff)

There are different versions of the WHDLoad package. The USR package contains the documentation and all programs which are required to use WHDLoad installs. The DEV package contains all files from the USR package plus addtional programs, sources and support files. The DEV package is the right choice if you want to create installs for yourself. The USR small package contains a reduced set of documentation languages (only DE, EN, ES, FR, IT and PL). Besides that it is identical to the USR package.
The packages are provided in LhA and LZX (requires this Y2K fix!) format.

Latest News (last 50/last 500/all/RSS)

2025-07-12 new: Dylan Dog 04: Ombre (Simulmondo) done by DJ Mike (Info)
2025-07-07 new: Dylan Dog 03: Storia Di Nessuno (Simulmondo) done by DJ Mike (Info)
2025-07-06 new: Dylan Dog 02: Ritorno Al Crepuscolo (Simulmondo) done by DJ Mike (Info)
2025-07-06 fixed: Dylan Dog 01: La Regina Delle Tenebre (Simulmondo) fast memory fixed to be mandatory (Info)
2025-07-06 new: Dylan Dog 01: La Regina Delle Tenebre (Simulmondo) done by DJ Mike (Info)
2025-07-04 new: Oilmania (Soft Company X) done by DJ Mike (Info)
2025-07-01 improved: Joan of Arc / Jeanne d'Arc (Chip Software) trainers added (Info)
2025-06-28 new: Joan of Arc / Jeanne d'Arc (Chip Software) done by DJ Mike (Info)
2025-06-09: In Memory of StingRay: We are deeply saddened to announce that our friend and long-time supporter StingRay passed away in November 2024. StingRay was one of the most dedicated contributors to the WHDLoad project. His work speaks for itself: 847 installations created solely by him, and 247 co-productions with others. His contributions were not only numerous, but also of outstanding quality — a true foundation for the WHDLoad archive as it stands today. We are grateful for his passion, skill, and countless hours of support over the years. His legacy will continue to be felt throughout the project and by the entire Amiga community. Our deepest condolences go out to his family, friends, and all those who knew and appreciated him. Thank you, StingRay. You will be missed.
2025-06-06 improved: IK+ (Archer MacLean) interrupt patches can be disabled, added manual/icons (Info)
2025-06-06 new: Works Team Rally (Zeppelin Games) done by DJ Mike (Info)
2025-05-19 updated: Battle Command (Ocean) Crash bug fixed, another version supported, UI click bug fixed, trainers and manual added (Info)
2025-05-13 new: Tactical Transmissions (Pattern Syndicate) done by paraj (Info,Image)
2025-05-13 new: 3D Demo 3: The Last Drop (Lemon) done by paraj (Info,Image)
2025-05-06 new: Challenge Golf (On-line) done by DJ Mike (Info)
2025-05-04 new: Transputor (Actual Screenshots) done by Psygore (Info)

Currently in work

the following demos and games are currently in work and may be finished/released in some time

Alfabet Smierci ECS (Arte), start 2020-11-09 Asman
Allo Allo (Alternative Software), 2nd button jump support - in testing 2025-07-04 DJ Mike
Armalyte (Thalamus), 99% Complete 2021-04-24 Abaddon
Bermuda Project (Mirrorsoft), 95% complete (testing game - lots of faults!) 2024-01-07 Codetapper
Bubble Ghost (Accolade), 99% complete (install script to finish) 2024-01-07 Codetapper
Centerbase: Science-Fiction Simulation (reLINE), 50% complete, removing OS stuff 2021-03-23 Psygore
Chambers Of Shaolin CDTV (Thalion), 80% complete (halted) 2021-01-01 JOTD
Champion of the Raj (P.S.S.), 80% complete, protection needs to be disabled 2025-06-09 StingRay
Das Stundenglas (Software 2000), 90% finished, playtesting to do (protection needs to appear) and install package to do 2025-06-09 StingRay
Delirium (Complex), 50% complete, Zoomlens and Endpart left to fix 2025-06-09 StingRay
Demolition (Anco/Kingsoft), 90% Complete 2021-04-24 Galahad
Dragon Lord (Palace Software), 80% Complete 2021-04-24 Galahad
Footman (Topdown Development), 85% complete 2024-01-07 Codetapper
Fort Apache (Impressions), 85% complete 2021-01-01 JOTD
Fred (UbiSoft), 100 % to release/KickEmu used instead of OSEMU/TRainer added 2023-04-09 CFou!
Gazza's Super Soccer (Empire), 70% complete 2024-01-07 Codetapper
Hammerfist (Vivid), CD32 pad controls, minor clean-up, v17 custom controls 50% 2013-07-05 Hungry Horace
Hardwired (TSL/Crionics), 40% complete, complete rework, problem with black screen in glenz vector part finally fixed! 2025-06-09 StingRay
Hoi (Hollyware), 50% complete 2024-01-07 Codetapper
Joan of Arc (Chip), 95% finished, bitplane wipe effect doesn't appear and needs to be fixed other than that the patch is finished 2025-06-09 StingRay
Legend (Mindscape), Massive clean-up, fixes, CD32 controls etc 10% 2013-07-05 Hungry Horace
MegArts Hockey (MegArts), 70% complete (translations need adjusting compared to Cross Check) 2024-01-07 Codetapper
Micro League Wrestling (Microleague), 5 % complete, just started 2021-01-03 Puppe
Moebius Goatlizard (Black Jet), 70% complete (programmer is releasing a new version shortly based on bugs found while writing the install) 2024-01-07 Codetapper
Newtek Demoreel 1-3 (Newtek), started 2023-01-14 Wepl
Passagers On The Wind 1 (1987 Infogrames), solution & saves file to add 2023-04-09 CFou!
Passagers On The Wind 2 (1988 Infogrames), solution & saves file to add 2023-04-09 CFou!
Phalanx II: The Return (Kingsoft), 100% to release 2023-04-09 CFou!
Phalanx (Kingsoft), 100% to release / speed regulation + enhanced trainer 2023-04-09 CFou!
Pink Panther (reLINE), 100% to release (buttonwait/disk image legnth optimized/Quitkey for 68000) 2023-04-09 CFou!
Reach for the Skies (Rowan/Virgin), 90% complete 2021-04-24 Galahad
Regent (MES), started with it, ugly AMOS code 2023-01-14 Wepl
S.D.I. (Activision), 100% complete 2024-01-07 Codetapper
Snakes (Victrix), 95 % complete, need beta tester 2021-01-03 Puppe
Space Ranger, 90% complete 2021-01-01 JOTD
Speed (Sim Prod.), 95% finished, timing problems to fix (needs to be slowed down to disk speed) 2025-06-09 StingRay
Stadt der Löwen (Software 2000), 90% complete, CDTV version to support, gfx bug in title screen to fix 2025-06-09 StingRay
Starflight 2 (Electronic Arts), 80% complete, testing and install package to do 2025-06-09 StingRay
Steve Davis World Snooker (Artworx), 90% complete, needs 1MB at the moment due to memory allocation bugs 2025-06-09 StingRay
SWOS (Sensible Software), 99% Complete - Enhancements and updates 2021-04-24 Galahad
T-Zer0 (clickBOOM), 80% complete, supports game version and another demo version, patching all OS access 2021-03-23 Psygore
TFX (DID), 95% complete FPU version to adapt to 040/060 if doable 2021-01-01 JOTD
The Scene 2 (Abel), 60% complete (fixing keyboard handler) 2021-04-24 Dr Cinicus
Turbo Trax (Microdeal), 95% complete (seems to play by itself!) 2024-01-07 Codetapper
Vision (Oxygene), 80% finished, now fixing the "french way of demo coding" (TM), i.e. fixing lots and lots of annoying SMC 2025-06-09 StingRay
Whale's Voyage (Neo), 50% (CD32 version working) 2021-01-01 JOTD
Willow (Mindscape), 20% complete, unplayable without Preload, too many OS swaps 2025-06-09 StingRay
Wizard Warz (GO! (U.S. Gold)), 20% Complete - Lots of access faults 2021-04-24 Abaddon
Z-Out (Rainbow Arts), 95% complete (support for MFM) 2021-01-01 JOTD
Zarathrusta (Hewson), 45% Complete (CD32 pad support) 2021-04-24 Abaddon

Requests

WHDLoad install authors are looking for the following ORIGINALS to create or improve an install for it. If you own one of these games, please contact the person given by the underlying link or me.

Please note that it is usually not required that you ship your disks or cd's, because nearly all can be done via email. Check here for more infos concerning creating and sending images to install authors (thanks to Codetapper for writing this text).

Bone Cruncher (Superior) 2022-12-27 Puppe
Cool Croc Twins, original version 2022-12-28 JOTD
Cosmo Ranger SOL Ad 2000 (T1989 Turtle Bytes), PAL version (GER?) 2023-01-26 CFou!
Evil's Doom 2022-12-28 Psygore
Freddy Hardest in South Manhatten (Iron Byte/Dinamic (Spanish version of Guardian Angel)) 2022-12-28 Codetapper
Gem'z, original if it exists 2023-01-26 CFou!
Gotcha (1991 Prestige/Gemini), original if it exists 2023-01-26 CFou!
Katakis v1.0 (2 disks), just unsupported version (not caps 1273& 0347) 2023-01-26 CFou!
Manhattan Dealers (1989), french crypted version. 2023-01-26 CFou!
Oilmania (Soft Company X), Only known release is Amigo! issue 05/92 2025-07-04 DJ Mike
Oliver & Company (1989 Coktel) 2023-01-26 CFou!
Quicksilva (Entactogenic Design), Original is searched, known cracks are defective 2025-04-23 paraj
Sphericule (Assembly Line) 2022-12-28 Codetapper
Sword Of Honour (Prestige), not SPS 149 (base version of DTC's crack) 2023-01-26 CFou!

If the install does not work?

First, don't panic, don't swear at the install, don't swear at WHDLoad and don't flame at forums or comp.sys.*.*. It's usually the fault of the games or demos if they do not work and the install tries their best to make them working on all hardware setups.

In fact all installs are written to work with an ORIGINAL, that means that the install will usually not work with versions which has been altered in any way.

Before sending a bug report, try yourself to solve the problem. There are various things you can do:

check the version of the install and WHDLoad, make sure that you are using the latest versions of both, many installs require the latest WHDLoad version, also installs will be updated from time to time - so check if there is an new one available
check the Tooltypes (or the options if started from the CLI/Shell), many things can be adjusted setting Tooltypes, there is hardware which requires that you set the correct Tooltypes, maybe your system is to fast - so set NoCache, some games are working only under PAL or NTSC - so try the Tooltypes PAL and NTSC, some extra hardware creates at random interrupts which confuses the installed games/demo - so try Tooltype NoAutoVec, sometimes also the Tooltypes NoResInt and NoMMU may help
read the readme or other documentation supplied with the install, it often contains important information concerning the install, its using and its limitations

Although all installs are tested before public release, a bug might have escaped unnoticed. If you think you discovered a bug, write a detailed report of your problem to the author of the install. For this use the bug report form which can be accessed if you click on the author on the download pages. Or submit a report in the Mantis Bugtracker. Try to report your problem accurate. If you get an error requester by WHDLoad please also make a CoreDump (just press the CoreDump button on the requester WHDLoad shows) and attach the .whdl_register file to the issue made in the Mantis Bugtracker. Problems reported via the form on the download pages will be imported some days later to the Mantis Bugtracker. During that process an user account for the reporter will be created (if not already present). All further communication regarding the report should then happen via the bug tracker so that the relevant informations can be preserved.

Please note: if the authors aren't informed about bugs they can't correct them.

Note also, that the reasons for problems are often an different version of the game/demo. Many commercial games have been sold in more than one version (full-price-release, budget-re-release, coverdisk-release, PAL/NTSC version, ...). Of course a install can only work if it has been written for the version you have. If you have a different version of the same game, it won't work. In that case, you have to contact the author of the install and ask him to support your version.

If you have a general problem with WHDLoad or in the case that a lot of installs are not working correctly, please submit a report for WHDLoad in the Mantis Bugtracker. Choose WHDLoad as the project and include you system environment specification as best as possible.

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